Experience and science have shown how powerful music can be in evoking in us memories. Sometimes. these memories are near the surface of our recall ability, others are deeply buried. Do we as people share the same memories of the same songs? What happens when we don’t?
Day of the Dead and All Soul’s Day is a time to honor our ancestors, celebrating them through stories and song. Visiting guest author, Amada Perez, will be sharing stories about her life and ancestry ( www.amadairmaperez.com ). Reverend Nica and Sam Dickerson will lead this intergenerational service. We invite you to bring photos of your relatives and friends who are no longer with us, both from this community and your families to place on our community altar of remembrance. Let us pull from their love and strength so that we may heal what troubles us, and move toward a more joyous future for all generations.
In our UU congregations, we focus on shared love over belief. We offer sanctuary by being a place where you are loved and accepted for who you are, in your wholeness, your brokenness, your uniqueness and your quirkiness. Love is what binds us together. Explore with us what it means to live out our Universalist heritage of love beyond belief.
It is a grace-filled moment when we are caught in the rain and someone offers to share their umbrella with us. We all need sanctuary at different times in our lives. Times when life gets tough to navigate. When it throws us a curve ball. Together we explore the beautiful gift of our interdependence, of being able to give and receive sanctuary to one another.
What are you about? How are you going about being about it? Every day we have opportunities to clarify our values as individuals and a community. In this service we will consider how we can clearly discuss our values and come to live in ways that strive to be in alignment with what we truly believe.
When we hear that “truth isn’t truth”, and our society is plagued with lies and fake news, how do we know what to believe? Where do we turn to find a standard of truth? What role does Unitarian Universalism play in guiding us in this quest? Join us for this service, which is Don Parker’s Auction winning topic.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, when we are encouraged to let go and forgive, we look at what it means to be a covenantal faith. Judaism has informed our faith with its emphasis on covenant. Rather than a covenant with God, however, Unitarian Universalism asks us to covenant with one another. In this service, we’ll explore how we can live deeply into our CVUUF covenant and the principles of our faith.
To begin our month focused on the theme of Vision, we share our congregational vision for the year, with priorities determined collaboratively by the Board and Minister.
Borrowing a line from the poem “To Be Of Use” by Marge Piercy, members of CVUUF, Anita Contini, Matthew Petras, Judy Blades, and Michael Posey, will speak of work they have found meaningful. Worship Associate Thelma Williams invites you to join us as we celebrate Labor Day.
When the daily news bombards us with injustice and chaos, and our world seems in disarray, it is even more vital that we find ways of cultivating joy, resilience, and hope. Without an intentional practice for cultivating joy and resilience, we can easily be led to despair and hopelessness. Join us to rediscover joy as a vital outlook and the core of who we are…
