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Congregation Unitarian Universalist
What is New
In the months of April May and June
Mother's Day
– second Sunday of May.
Ecology, Justice, and Compassion "Humility, Humus, Hubris & Humor"
Living our Seventh Principle. The original Earth Day was on the March equinox. MARCH 21, 2008 is still the International Earth Day. In many countries Earth Day is April 22, 2008.
The following is quoted from of Rev. Stefan Jonassen in his "A Canadian Unitarian Almanac And Liturgical Calendar". "In 1872, Unitarian Julia Ward Howe began advocating the creation of a "Mother's Day for Peace" to be held on June 2 each year. The following year, eighteen cities held such a gathering. Bostonians continued to observe the day for more than a decade, while some cities continued the observance until the turn of the century, when the annual "Mother's Day for Peace" appears to have died out. In 1907, Anna Jarvis, a Methodist, began a campaign to establish a permanent Mother's Day. By the following year, the YMCA had taken up the cause and, in 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a congressional resolution establishing Mother's Day in the United States. In time, the day came to be marked in many other countries. Ms Jarvis was troubled by the commercialization of the day, saying, "I wanted it to be a day of sentiment, not profit." Inalterably opposed to the sale of flowers (but not the giving of homegrown blossoms), she also lamented the advent of the Mother's Day card, describing it as "a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write." Interestingly enough, Mother's Day is the most heavily attended Sunday in North American churches, outside of the Christmas and Easter seasons! In Unitarian Universalist congregations, the day has increasingly taken on a sense of being a day to mark the contributions of all women."
The United Nations celebrates this day as World Environment Day on June 5,2008. Recycling is an environmental issue. But when a Chicago woman who's never smoked cigarettes gets lung cancer from breathing fumes from an incinerator burning recyclable trash, that's an issue of justice and compassion.
Our traditional Father's Day Service where you are invited to bring a photograph or some object that represents your father to share with our small congregation. Fathers and Grandfathers may also share stories of fatherhood.
A sermon by The Rev. Suzanne Meyer. Humility. We say that we all value humility—in others, that is. We say that we much prefer to be around those individuals who are modest, and unassuming, rather than around shameless braggarts or egomaniacs. But, if the truth be told, we are drawn to those individuals who display a certain chutzpah, audacity, or even arrogance. Everybody claims to hate Donald Trump, but his so-called reality-based television show is an undisputed hit. Although we may say how much we dislike the person who is full of himself, all puffed up, or prideful, secretly I think that we are all attracted to the show-offs, especially the celebrities who display unabashed self-confidence, even conceit.
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