Worship Services via Zoom: Sundays @ 10:30 am
Our Worship Theme for April is Becoming.
Sunday, April 11
10:30 am Sunday Morning Worship
Passover and Spiritual Practice
The Jewish practice of counting the Omer, represents spiritual preparation and anticipation for the renewal of a new cycle of Torah study. Humanistic Jews understand it as a celebration of the harvest, counting forty-nine days immediately following the commencement of the grain harvest (Passover) with the offering of a sheaf (omer) of ripe grain and a sacrifice – culminating in the festival celebrating the end of the grain harvest, (Shavuot or Pentecost). This is also a renewal, as food stocks are replenished. We also just celebrated Passover, when the Jews faced a renewal as they escaped slavery, Easter, the renewal or rebirth of Jesus, and spring, the renewal of new life after winter. Just as all these seasons of renewal come together, we are facing the end of a pandemic and thus, another renewal of sorts. I will show you how I am using the counting of the Omer as spiritual preparation leading into the unknown post-pandemic times and explore with you other forms of spiritual preparation.
Passover and Spiritual Practice
The Jewish practice of counting the Omer, represents spiritual preparation and anticipation for the renewal of a new cycle of Torah study. Humanistic Jews understand it as a celebration of the harvest, counting forty-nine days immediately following the commencement of the grain harvest (Passover) with the offering of a sheaf (omer) of ripe grain and a sacrifice – culminating in the festival celebrating the end of the grain harvest, (Shavuot or Pentecost). This is also a renewal, as food stocks are replenished. We also just celebrated Passover, when the Jews faced a renewal as they escaped slavery, Easter, the renewal or rebirth of Jesus, and spring, the renewal of new life after winter. Just as all these seasons of renewal come together, we are facing the end of a pandemic and thus, another renewal of sorts. I will show you how I am using the counting of the Omer as spiritual preparation leading into the unknown post-pandemic times and explore with you other forms of spiritual preparation.
Sunday, April 18
10:30 am Sunday Morning Worship
8th Principle Kickoff
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
8th Principle Kickoff
“We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
Sunday, April 25
10:30 am Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, May 2
10:30 am Sunday Morning Worship