Past Services
Sun Nov 9
A Posture of the Soul, led by Reverend Janet Parsons, with musician Steve Lacey. This month, fittingly, we will be exploring gratitude as a way of life. How does it protect and benefit us? Bundle Up! Our boiler will not be repaired in time for this Sunday. While the...
Sunday Nov 2
Grief...and Gratitude: A Service for All Souls, led by Reverend Janet Parsons. Sunday is All Souls Day, and we pause to remember those we have lost. As part of our service, we will create an altar for our beloveds. Please feel free to bring a photo or a memento of...
Sunday Oct 26
Fiercely Compassionate, led by Reverend Janet Parsons, with Andrew Soll, organist, and the Gloucester UU Church choir. How does compassion call us to act with courage, to move toward those who are suffering and not away? Please join us at 10am in-person or at the...
More Services Archives
False-self/True-self
This is a description of two worlds we all know well. The false-self can be known as the voice-in-your-head. The true-self can be known as the inner-voice. One is persistent and generates self-inflicted suffering. The other nurtures spiritual growth. The bridge...
To Rise, To Reach a Little Deeper
Resilience is the theme for February, which is also Black History Month. Today we share stories of seemingly ordinary people of color, and how they responded to oppression, difficult lives, and rose again. Come and be entertained, uplifted, and inspired for our own...
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Hear stories of resilience and courage, born out of concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Gulags of Siberia. When Jews are sent to work at the camps, some earn positions as tattooists or desk jobs. They use their positions to keep fellow prisoners alive. ...
Groundhog Day
Sunday is Groundhog Day, as well as Imbolc. We will explore earth-centered and Christian traditions connected with February 2. What does the famous Bill Murray movie have to do with Buddhism? Today we live up to our Unitarian Universalist values of religious...
Beautiful, Honest Spiritual Warriors
We continue our exploration of Integrity this week by considering the question of honesty. Can we be kind, and honest? Are we afraid to be honest? Our choir will sing. All are welcome!
Martin Luther King Sunday
Our church, together with the UU Society of Rockport, has been leading a research project on the slave economy of Cape Ann. We will share a new website called Cape Ann Slavery. We will tell stories about the role of church members and ministers in the slave trade...