Call to Worship (Rev Denis)“How does one address a mystery?” Gordon McKeeman asked, back when he was the last president of the Universalist Church of America, before it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association in 1961. Cautiously, he said, let us go then to the end of our certainty, to the boundary of all we know, to the rim of uncertainty, to…
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Sermons from 2018 (Page 3)
Monthly Theme: Multigenerationalism Call to Worship: Rev Denis I’d like to share with you the words of poet and social activist Thomas Merton, who also happened to be a Trappist monk. He wrote: We are living in the greatest revolution in history –A huge spontaneous upheaval of the entire human race:Not a revolution planned and carried outBy any particular party, race, or…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Personal Reflection Bree Byrd Recently while in a class where we were viewing and discussing images, I came to an odd realisation about myself. Among the images we were viewing were several images of catastrophe about to strike, including one in particular which showed a tsunami about to strike the coastline of Japan. On one side of the…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Call to Worship & Chalice Lighting, Rev. Denis Can you hear them? Can you hear the whispers of the ancestors? We remember.Their stories are in the walls, in our bones, in the air that we breathe.Their stories are in the touch of a calloused hand,In the melody of songs that we hum while washing dishes,In remembered faces. We hear…
Monthly Theme: Being Mortal Call to Worship Rev. Denis Letourneau Paul You’ve got a lot going on in your life.Your days are filled with challenges that feel like they will drag you down into a deep dark pit of despairYour days are filled with tasks Soaked with obligation Like homework and deskwork and emails and billsThat seem to keep getting put on top of…