AtholUU E-Newsletter- March 8, 2016 – International Women’s Day
Church Begins SOON on Sunday, March 20th 🙂 in 2 weeks!
EVENTS upcoming:
Ingathering & Water Communion — March 20th at 10:00 AM
Board of Management Meeting on Sunday, March 20, 2016 after coffee hour.
Easter Basket Breakfast — March 27th (see below for more information)
First Church Coffee Stand during the River Rat Parade on Saturday, April 9, 2016
selling Donna’s Donuts which are baked, not fried.
All helpers welcome! The Coffee Stand will be on the front lawn.
WORSHIP SCHEDULE
March 20th — “Spring Into Action — INGATHERING” Rev. Marilyn Richards
All are invited to our annual Ingathering celebration. Welcome!
We will have a Water Communion, please bring water from your cabin or you can use the water provided in the jug.
March 27th — EASTER —
Easter Basket Blessing and Potluck Breakfast
In our UU Hungarian tradition, Easter baskets are not simply for candy. They are intended to give life after a long hard winter and are filled with a full meal, including salt and pepper. We continue our tradition of providing life giving food and honoring our own family’s food traditions
For our service, which includes the potluck meal, please bring a potluck dish that reminds you of your own Easter traditions. What does/did did your family serve?
Please cover the dish or basket, in something decorative, like a tea towel. We uncover the dishes during the service. For example, I brought a cooked chicken in a bowl that I place in a basket. Along with the chicken, I had a box of serrated knives, dill dipping sauce, salt & pepper, and anything else needed to serve it. I covered the basket with a fancy tea towel, and tied ribbons on basket’s handle.
April 3rd — “Promise of the April Fool?” TED & Response by Steve Wills
April 10th — “Language of Love & Justice – Respect” Rev. Richards
IN CLOSING
A friend in the UUA, has printed this UU Lenten Calendar for spiritual reflection during the season of Lent.
“As Unitarian Universalists, we share theological roots with our Christian siblings, who observe Lent from Ash Wednesday until Easter. However, rather than a practice of self-denial, we offer this opportunity to spend the Season of Lent engaged in a spiritual discipline of deep intention and appreciation of our world, our place in it, and an openness to Grace in our daily lives.
#UULent is designed to be used individually, as a family, or as a congregation. We selected a word for each day in Lent (see below graphic for this year’s words). We believe each word will be accessible to all ages and stages of faith development. Reflect on the meaning of this word to you. Take a photograph each day that speaks to you about the word, idea, practice, or concept. Share it on social media with the hashtag #UULent, and celebrate the shared inspiration we bring to one another. Please respect copyright and use only pictures you yourself have taken.
On Sundays throughout Lent, we challenge ourselves to not only reflect on the given word, but to enact it in our world. On Service Sundays we will share not only images and brief reflections, but we will embody the spirit of the words, and share in this virtual community how the daily word moved us to make our faith manifest in our physical community.
Thank you for being part of of our shared spiritual practice, know that your words and images are a deep blessing to us.
in faith, love, and service,
Mr. Barb Greve
With gratitude to Karen Bellavance-grace, who co-founded this with me and Alex Kapitan, who joined me in 2016.