AtholUU E-Newsletter – October 12, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
   All worship services begin at 10:00 AM.

Oct. 16        “What Gathers Us Together”   Rev. Marilyn Richards

We gather for many individual reasons; and for a few general reasons.  “What gathers us together” may be so basic and fundamental to our thinking, our way of being in this world, that it may be difficult to articulate.  This is one attempt.

Oct. 23         “Yoga and Buddhism”        Constancy Pike

Oct. 30        “Saints & Samhain – Our Religious Ancestors”     Rev. Richards

Nov.  6        Steve Will’s TED and Response

Nov. 13        Larry Musante speaking

EVENTS

Board of Management will meet Sunday, October 30, 2016 after coffee hour.

Halloween Stroll will be on Halloween Day, Monday, October 31, 2016 from 10am until noon.

Please mark your calendars: Holiday Fair will be Saturday, November 19, 2016

Athol’s Thanksgiving Interfaith worship service will be held
* Sunday, November 20, 2016
* Starrett Memorial Methodist church, 40 Island St, Athol, MA 01331
*  7:00 PM.
* This is also a Retirement Recognition for Spin Ainsworth, who retires this year, & also worked at the Orange UU church.  To celebrate, let’s join the Interfaith choir, which will rehearse once before the service, directed by Spin.

Please mark your calendars:  Midnight Madness (Christmas) will be Saturday evening, Dec. 10th.

IN CLOSING

Today, October 12, 2016 is Yom Kippur  (Evening of Oct. 11th through evening of Oct. 12th).   This reflection is for Yom Kippur.

“Impacting this world is not reserved for the knight in shining armor, for the airbrushed faces of Hollywood.  It is the responsibility and right of every one of us—with all of our talents and strengths, and yes, with all of our weaknesses.

We, and our loved ones, are immortalized long after we are gone, through the kind acts on this earth—the comforting whisper to a frightened child, the mending of a broken heart, the giving of charity when we need to dig deep, the patience and forbearance to a cantankerous relative, the nourishing home-cooked meal delivered with love . . .

It is through this goodness and giving that we touch the divine, ascending higher than heaven.”

By Shula Bryski

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Rev. Marilyn Richards