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Unitarian Universalists of Mozambique
Index of Services and Sermons Congregation Unitarian Universalist of Mozambique
Thanksgiving:
"What is religion?"
YOM KIPPUR – Probably the most important of Judaism's high holy days, the culmination of the Days of Awe , that begins with Rosh Hashanah. It was established in Leviticus 23:26-32. "Yom Kippur" means "Day of Atonement." It is a day set aside to "afflict the soul," to atone for the sins of the past year. Themes of our service include repentance, reconciliation, asking for forgiveness. "Atonement" can be broken down into: "At-one-ment", implying that when we forgive and are forgiven, we are brought back into relationship with one another.
Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice. Do you think There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy? In the hurried pace of our lives today do you know people who have achieved or are trying to achieve calmness and quiet joy? How have they changed their priorites and the life choices they make? – Sunday before Thanksgiving. Themes can include gratitude for loved ones, gathering the family together, breaking bread together, Native American perspective on the holiday, Puritans, remembering those less fortunate.
Some congregations celebrate bread communion at this service. This ritual can include the breaking and passing around of bread throughout the congregation. Congregants eat the bread, or feed it to one another, while being led in a reflection about gratitude, sharing and being together in community.
Today we will consider and discuss, "What is religion?" This is one of the Great Questions of Life.
Examples of Readings, Poems, music, and prayers to celebrate life. Links to additional readings.
Child Dedication and Naming Service:
Our children will live in the world we leave them. They will live with the problems we have not yet handled. We can't tell them how to live in that future. But they are learning from us right now. What values, what passwords do we as a religious community need to transmit to them that will give them the tools they will need?
How We Welcome Our Children An explanation of the the ANCIENT RITES and rituals of passage and their history that are used today by UU's and interfaith, intercultural couples to welcome and give thanks for our children. CEREMONIES OF HOPE and Child dedications
The Way With No God: Atheism As A Religious Path.
Being Religious in the Twenty first Century
Winter solstice:
Is Nature Your Spiritual Home A Celebration of the Spring Equinox
Bisexual. gay. lesbian and transgender people:Find a welcoming place with Unitarian Universalist Congregations: We support Freedom to Marry and Marriage rights for all.
Hiroshima:
Sharing the Water of Life: A Water Communion
October 4, Feast of St. Francis of Assisi ,
A Holiday Service When is Enough, Enough ?
Spiritual Celebration for Christmas: Big Rocks: Setting Our Priorities A Religious examination of our values and our priorities.
On Love A celebration of St Valentine's Day and allday filled with love.
Summer Solstice
Random thoughts on Joy
Sermons
Welcome the Return of the Light. If it seems that the holidays are more synonymous with stress than with celebration we invite you to pause amidst busy holiday preparations and purchases to contemplate the most basic of our needs and wants—warmth and light in a simple ritual with your beloved community.
Forty years after his last and most radical address to the Souther Christian Leadership Conference, the question on which Martin Luther King Jr. centered his talk was "Where do we go from here? " This subject continues to haunt anyone troubled by the progress of racial justice in this country. And so we raise it again today.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to us when we discovers that someone else believes in us and is willing to trust us. "To Make a Friend, you must be a Friend" What is Friendship ?
Living our Seventh Principle. The original Earth Day was on the March equinox. MARCH 20, 2008 is still the International Earth Day. In many countries Earth Day is April 22, 2008.
We Will Not Repeat This Evil An interfaith Worship service to discuss what can we, as individuals and as a covenanted community, do to plan for the achievement and maintenance of a nuclear-weapon-free world. Remember those killed in the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki and those affected by its aftermath. All who were injured or killed in conflicts like young Sadako, all who are now in harms way, including soldiers on all sides of the many conflicts that our small blue planet is now enduring and especially the innocent civilians affected by these wars, all killed, injured or grieving because of acts of terrorism.
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 Celebration for Labor Day People often ask "What do you do?" What if the focus was not "what you do", but "how it is done"? What would change for you?
All life comes from water. Life started in the ocean, where it began to take its many and amazing forms. Babies are cradled in water before they are born. Everything that lives needs water, from the smallest plants to the largest whale. From the beginning of history, humans have built their homes and their lives around water. Today we celebrate water, which connects and nourishes all life. The beginning of the church year for our congregations is called homecoming. Some congregations include the Water Communion ritual in this service. This ritual involves members and friends who have brought small amounts of water to the service, taken from special places they have been over the summer. The water might be collected from a rainstorm or is significant or symbolic in some way. They can pour the water into a large bowl and tell the congregation where it is from and the meaning it has for them. Other congregations bring into the sanctuary items of significance to their own history. The chalice, a banner or wall hanging, the covenant, hymnal, a Religious Education Book, or crayons, even a coffee urn. What ever symbolizes the regathering of the community.
World Day for Animals, bless pets, bring photographs of pets, even stuffed animals, blessing animals out of doors. In our list of moral principles we respect the interdepent web of all life,cherish our mother earth. We meet together to pray for Animals
A calendar of commonly celebrated occasions in Unitarian Universalist congregations. There are congregations that may not celebrate many of these events. There are also occasions that are important to some congregations but which are not listed here.
In the busy holiday season, let us remember the true gifts of the spirit. Let us feel the blessing of community and the sweet expectation of good things to come. And now we extinguish our chalice but not the light of hope: hope for change that brings new blessings into our lives and the lives of those around us.
A religion of realities is a faith that the real world provides sufficient beauty, adventure, and growth for our needs and aspirations. We are real creatures in a real world; only if we miss the splendor of this world do we need fantastic substitutes.
Trust is like any intensive agricultural crop. It must be carefully sown on fertile soil, fiercely defended against the vagaries of climate and pests, and appropriately harvested, making sure to separate the chaff from the grain, keeping the grain and burning the chaff. It does not do to throw a seed behind our backs as if it were a pinch of salt, and embrace the wishful thought that luck will favor us.
Our Principles:
The 2nd and 6th principles
Principle 2: Justice, equity and compassion in human relation
p>Principle <6: The Goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all
The 3rd and 5th principles
Principle 3: Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations
Principle 5: The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large
The Fourth Principle:
A free and responsible search for truth and meaning. How Unitarian Universalism is a spiritual path
The United Nations: Forgotten Successes and Remembered Failures Realizing Our Global Conscience
Twelve Steps How involvement with a 12 Step program can awakened a new spirituality.
Why we Unitarian Universalists are not Catholics
The End of Faith Faith is being used to justify and motivate horrific violence.
OUR GLOBAL CONSCIENCE
Protecting Human Rights to Life, Liberty and Security. How to use The Millennium Development Goals in Social Justice and Witnessing For the Beloved Community.
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