The UUA lists six categories of sources that inform and guide our faith. This list is not exclusive, and many of these tend to overlap or enhance each other. This leads to the conclusions that in each individual’s free and responsible search for truth and meaning some sources will have a greater resonance than others, … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth: Symbolic Freemasonry as Personal Source”

Come join Diane Wright as we reflect on a larger understanding of our assets, liabilities, and the meaning behind our choices to save and to share.  Service leader:  Libby Earle.  Children’s RE:  Class from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then they will join their families for the service.

At this time of year, when the cold seeps deep into the landscape, the days are also lengthening, and we find ourselves halfway between solstice and the beginning of spring. Join Diane Wright as we reflect on the importance of acknowledging these last weeks of winter, and the ways they hold the seeds of spring. … Continue reading Sunday Service: “What Does the Groundhog Know?  Celebrating Imbolc and the First Hints of Spring.” 

As Unitarian Universalists we affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning; thus, we do not always believe the same things as one another, even as we worship together. Join service leader Jennifer Blue as we hear from four of our congregants, ages 17 to 92, about their personal religious beliefs.  … Continue reading Sunday Service: “This I Believe.” 

Genevieve O’Malley Knight and Curt Ellison will share the message of Dr. King’s sermon to the UUA at General Assembly in 1966, and we will hear his own voice on this same topic in a 1968 sermon at the National Cathedral.  Service leader:  Genevieve O’Malley Knight.  Children’s RE:  Activity in lower level during the service.

Peter Carels will provide a variety of instruments.  Our traditional service will be slightly re-arranged to provide opportunity to share our spirit with the help of percussion. Service leader:  Kathleen Carels.  Children’s RE:  Class from 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then they will join their families for the service.

Join the Sunday Service Committee for a combined coffee hour/New Year’s Day informal intergenerational service which will feature expanded Joys & Concerns and Congregational Reflection about the Old and New Years.  Intergenerational service.

Join us for lessons and carols, many carols. If you are joining us on Zoom please have a candle with you, if possible, so you can participate in sharing of the light that ends the service. If you are coming in person please bring cookies to share after the service. No Sunday-morning service on Sunday, … Continue reading Special Saturday Evening “Christmas Eve Service”

Back by popular demand, this service is dedicated to music. The congregation will sing mostly Christmas carols; the choir will sing, Evan will play, so join us for this jolly, family-friendly, intergenerational celebration. Service leader: Patty Klingenberg.

International Mountain Day, a day recognized by the United Nations as an opportunity to focus on the importance of, and the conservation of, mountain eco-systems of the world. Join Diane Wright and the Hopedale community as we think about mountains and reflect on the 2022 United Nations theme for Mountain Day:  “Women Move Mountains.” Service … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Lifting Our Eyes Up to the Mountains:  Reflections on International Mountain Day”