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”
Borrowing a service by Rev. Erika Hewitt, and adapting it a little for this season, we take a humorous folk tale about trickery to provide a fresh look at the question: “Will I contribute the best of myself to this beloved community?” This service will involve participation of the children, as well as the mitten … Continue reading Sunday Service: “What Gifts Can We Bring” with Celia Ellison
On this Thanksgiving weekend in preparation for the December holidays let us enjoy some silence together. Jennifer Blue will give us a brief introduction to Quaker worship as she has experienced it, and then we will join in silent worship. Service leader: Jennifer Blue Intergenerational service – no Children’s RE today.
We are heading into the holiday season! And November 20 is the birthday of Charles Berlitz, who was famous for his language guides. Join Diane Wright to talk about life and the challenges of all our different languages as we get ready to communicate with people we don’t see very often. Service leader: Jennifer Blue. … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Native Tongues: Language and the Life of Charles Berlitz”
All faith traditions include behaviors that are described as prayer. What common experience of interaction with one’s divine nature do we share at Hopedale? Come with an open heart to explore a few thoughts with Kathleen Carels about this oft-overlooked practice. Service Leader: Celia Ellison Children’s RE: Activity in the lower level during the service.
Doris Bergen will lead us in exploring another of the sources of Unitarian Universalist inspiration: humanist teachings which counsel us to heed the guidance of reason and the results of science and warn us against idolatries of the mind and spirit. Service leader: Celia Ellison. Children’s RE: Classes 9:30 – 10:15 a.m., then children will … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Exploring the Sources of our Living Tradition”
At this turning of the wheel of year, Lori O’Malley will speak about the Samhain and the importance of this sabbath in pagan tradition. We will have the opportunity to join in a ritual of release and renewal as we reflect on all the past year has brought us. Genevieve O’Malley Knight will be the … Continue reading Sunday Service: “Samhain”
