(With guest musician Sherry Niederkorn) Call to Worship Rev Denis Letourneau Paul This morning’s service won’t look or feel the way it does most Sunday mornings. You can tell that already by the arrangement of the seating. This morning we worship – we give shape to that which has meaning in our lives – by sharing our thoughts with one another. Because…
Call to Worship Rev. Denis Letourneau PaulGood morning, and welcome. Welcome into this space that is a bit more intimate than it usually is. Yesterday, there was a wedding here, under this chuppah, constructed by the McGoverns as their daughter Francesca entered into covenant of marriage. Like all covenants it includes not only the bride and the groom, but their families, friends,…
Call to Worship Rev. Denis The words of A. Powell Davies: None of our private worlds is big enough for us to live a wholesome life in. We need the wider world of joy and wonder, of purpose and venture, of toil and tears. What are we, any of us, but strangers and sojourners forlornly wandering through the nighttime until we draw…
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…
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…