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		<description>Chalice Unitarian Universalist Fellowship shares weekly inspirational sermons. We are a liberal religious community open to all with love in action as our goal. We value love, justice, equity, pluralism, generosity, transformation and interdependence, living lives of courage, compassion and peace. We open our hearts to all, no matter what you believe, whom you love, or how you express yourself. We offer weekly Sunday services at 10 am PST both in person in Newbury Park, CA and online through zoom. Join us.</description>
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	<title>International Day of Peace</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/international-day-of-peace/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[This week we honor the United Nations’ International Day of Peace by exploring what it means to become peacemakers in a world that so desperately needs them. Through the story and creation of Peace Poles, Rev. Nica and Susan Seats invite us to consider how peace begins within us, takes root in our relationships and communities, and ripples outward into our world. How might each of us become an instrument of peace?
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	<title>In Gathering: Fully Alive!</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/in-gathering-fully-alive/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Come home to Chalice for our annual Ingathering celebration and Water Communion as we begin a new congregational year together. We’ll explore what it means to be fully alive. Come celebrate this one precious life, the waters that connect us, and the joy of being together again, and join us for a community picnic at Borchard Park after service.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Come home to Chalice for our annual Ingathering celebration and Water Communion as we begin a new congregational year together. We’ll explore what it means to be fully alive. Come celebrate this one precious life, the waters that connect us, and the joy ]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>This I Believe</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/this-i-believe-6/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>Called: Courageous Women Visionaries</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/23213/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[What does it take to see a new world before others can imagine it? Through the lives of 3 women visionaries: Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc, and Lee Miller, we will explore the courage to trust our vision, speak when silence feels safer, and act on behalf of a future still waiting to be born.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What does it take to see a new world before others can imagine it? Through the lives of 3 women visionaries: Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc, and Lee Miller, we will explore the courage to trust our vision, speak when silence feels safer, and act on behalf]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Believing in Miracles with Rev. Dr. Betty Stapleford</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/believing-in-miracles-with-rev-dr-betty-stapleford/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[A quote by Albert Einstein says: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” What could it mean to us as UUs if we believed in the possibility of miracles in our current social justice climate? We are not talking about supernatural intervention, but beloved community in action. And that could change everything!


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	<title>10 Years Together</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[On August 16, we mark ten years to the day since Rev. Nica began her ministry at Chalice. Together, we will honor all we have accomplished and weathered, and celebrate the thriving community we have become.]]></description>
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	<title>Becoming Our Whole Selves</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/uniting-our-divisions/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[In Hinduism, Shakti is the Divine Feminine, the primordial cosmic energy that animates the universe, while Shiva is the Divine Masculine, pure consciousness. The Divine is a perfect balance of both. We will explore what it means to honor, celebrate and cultivate both within ourselves in our journey toward becoming our whole selves.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In Hinduism, Shakti is the Divine Feminine, the primordial cosmic energy that animates the universe, while Shiva is the Divine Masculine, pure consciousness. The Divine is a perfect balance of both. We will explore what it means to honor, celebrate and c]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Hello, Goodbye</title>
	<link>https://www.chaliceuu.org/services/hello-goodbye/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[From the first breath until the last, our lives are framed by beginnings and endings. Most of us do better with the beginnings than the endings. Yet ancient wisdom teaches us that there is a time to gain and a time to lose. We confront losses of many kinds in the course of a life. Accepting the impermanence of all things and learning to say goodbye to everything, one sweet piece at a time, puts me in the here and now, which can be a surprisingly happy place to be.

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	<title>Staying Open in a Hurtful World</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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