The Holiday Season is upon us and we are planning a wonderful series of opportunities for worship, seasonal celebrations, and social events! We hope you will join us!!
Sunday, December 1 , 10:00 am in Person and Online – The Gift of Presence
As we eagerly anticipate the coming season of gifting and celebration, we pause on this first Sunday of Advent to reflect on the art of anticipation, what presents really reflect, and how we can be present to this moment in life. Join us as we greet the season of advent!
Sunday, December 8, 10:00 am – Living Attentively – Bodhi Day Celebration This Sunday is the annual Bodhi Day Celebration across many parts of the globe. We pause this day to honor the Buddha and the process of enlightenment asking what it means to live attentively.
Sunday, December 15, 10:00 am In Person and Online – Grappling with Grinchitude – So let’s get down to it. The holidays can be a hassle, mixed with many different emotions. We’ll explore the hard side of the holidays through a well known favorite holiday character. Join us and rediscover what is possible this season.
Sunday, December 22, 10:00 am In Person and Online – Returning the Light – Annual Winter Solstice Service – We’ll welcome the solstice this through a Finnish Tale which helps us find the returning light. This is a service for all ages! Come prepared to participate!
Sunday, December 22, 4:00 pm in Person and Online – Ringing In The Spirit of Love – Annual Holiday Vespers Service & Vespers Tea – Join us for the biggest, grandest service of the year! We’ll celebrate the season revels-style! With a story for everyone, choirs, bells, soloists, our annual carol sing, and of course candlelight and silent night. Then we will retire to Fellowship Hall for a grand gathering with refreshments and season’s greetings for all!
Sunday, December 24, 7:00 PM In Person and Online – Do You Hear What I Hear? – Annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service – We gather for this service of readings and carols to claim the spirit of Christmas through well-known stories, songs, and candlelight.
Sunday, December 29, 10:00 am In Person and Online – The Best Gift – Rev. Jennifer Innis, Guest Minister – Once again, we welcome Rev. Jennifer Innis back to the sanctuary of her youth to help us ring out the old year and ring in the new. She writes of this service: “In this season, we are pulled by our love of the world and our heartbreak for it. What boundaries need to be in place for us to be in our integrity and live into our generous spirit?”
Rev. Innis joins us from Peoria, IL where she enjoys life with her spouse the Reverend Patrick Price and their children, Nate and Abby. She is happy to be the minister with the Universalist Unitarian Church of Peoria. She also is the Director for Spirit Play, a story-based program for young children in Unitarian Universalism. Rev. Innis is thrilled to return to the UU Church of Worcester and offer worship at the church of her youth.
Blessings, Aaron