Past Services

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

"The Joy in Living Authentically"

Guest speaker Alex Kapitan will lead the service. In honor of Trans Day of Visibility (March 31), this service will be all about the journey and the joy of living unapologetically as your true self—not the cookie-cutter self that family, authorities, peers, or wider culture tried to mold you into, but the unique, most alive, most glorious being you were meant to be. In this time of targeted political attacks on trans people, joy and authenticity are vital forms of resistance.

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morning of service)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Sunday, March 16th, 2025

"Ancient Women’s Voices: The Aztec Goddess as Motivation"

Rev. Susan Suchoki Brown, our Sabbatical Minister, will lead the service. In honor of Women’s history month, Rev. Susan will explore the topic of new learnings from an old teaching. On her first of three trips to Mexico, she learned about the Lady of Guadeloupe, the Aztec Goddess. The story and the message is as relevant today as it was when the story first was told in the 1500’s. Using this same story Rev. Susan hopes to bring some messages of hope and strength. Sometimes digging into the past teachings we can learn how to handle todays hurdles.

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morning of service)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Sunday, March 9th, 2025

"World Religions Series: Buddhism"

Daylight Savings Time Begins - Set Clock Ahead

Our world religions series continues with guest speaker, “Matta” Matthew Haide Zheng, a Masters of Divinity Candidate at Harvard Divinity School and Founding Director of the Burning Refuge Collective (www.burningrefuge.org).

“Matta” Matthew Haide Zheng (any/all pronouns) is a 3rd year Masters of Divinity student at Harvard Divinity School, studying the anthropology of Buddhism and racial capitalism. Matta has and continues to serve as a hospital and LGBTQ+ higher education chaplain, political organizer and campaigner, and Buddhist community leader. At the age of 13, Matta discovered Buddhism through the complicated thicket of Yukio Mishima’s fiction. Though raised in a staunchly atheist household, they were called to Buddhadharma. Almost immediately, Buddhism was a spiritual salve to Matta’s hopelessness from being roundly rejected after coming out of the closet as queer. Since then, Matta’s practice, understanding, and passion for Buddhism has grown to infuse pragmatic hope for ultimate and final liberation for all sentient beings in every aspect of their life — whether personal, professional, or beyond. Today, Matta is a devoted queer Buddhist whose practice and passion extends to every corner of the Asian Buddhist diaspora. Most currently, Matta is authoring his MDiv thesis which theorizes a new way of understanding the religious tradition as "diaspora Buddhism".

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morning of service)

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

"Family Music Sunday: Songs from Disney’s Encanto"

An Intergenerational Service

Chris Hossfeld, Music Director - The whole family is invited to join the FPC Choir and RE program in presenting music from the hit Disney animated feature, Encanto. This Sunday morning service will explore the themes of love, family, and supporting each other as we develop our unique gifts. And yes, we will talk about Bruno! All are welcome! Please note that this service will be broadcast on Zoom as usual but not recorded and posted later on our YouTube channel.

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

"World Religions Series: Hinduism"

Our world religions series continues with guest speaker, Deepika Prakash, a long-time Acton resident who founded Diwalifest in 2021. She will speak about the Hindu faith and the importance of community and creativity. 

Deepika Prakash is the founder of PatternReview.com, a website she started in 2001 when she couldn't find any sewing resources online. It is a place of exchange, where people share and find sewing patterns and what they made with the patterns. She teaches sewing classes at Sargent Memorial Library and other venues. 

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, February 16th, 2025

"The Vulnerabilities and Challenges of a Thriving Life and Love"

Given the timing of the forthcoming Sat-Sun. storm, this service will be virtual only. CHOCOLATE Communion is still a part of the service, so have a piece of chocolate or chocolate substitute with you!

Our Sabbatical Minister will be getting to know the congregation and sharing some of her recent learnings about living, loving, thriving, and surviving.

Rev. Susan Suchoki Brown has been part of the UU Trauma Response Ministry for years. She served as the fire department chaplain in Leominster for many years where she was also minister of the UU church, and has served on the Ministerial Fellowship Committee and in many other UUA volunteer roles.  

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, February 9th, 2025

"Now What?"

Given the anticipated snowstorm beginning Saturday evening and going into Sunday Morning, we have decided to focus on safety and have a virtual service. The Encanto Family Music Sunday previously planned for this weekend will be held in March.

FPC Member Lisa Fagerstrom invites us to reflect on where we have been, where we are, and where we want to go in the future. What part can we play in how we move forward as a nation--regardless of our affiliations, passions, feelings, fears? What supports do we need and what actions can we take as individuals and as a community to "put one foot in front of the other and lead with love"?

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, February 2nd, 2025

"Cultivating Presence and Receptivity Through Posthumanism"

Guest Speaker and Member Shana Dumont Garr –  Posthumanism is a way of thinking that moves beyond humanism, which was a philosophy that blossomed during the Renaissance and positioned humans - rather than the whims of a divinity - at the center of the moral world. The humanist worldview still holds sway today over many of our political and social institutions, and posthumanist philosophy is emerging to reflect a new perspective on human beings' relationship to our changing world - a post-industrial, capitalist society where fossil fuels and other natural resources power our movement and technology, and most scientists and environmentalists believe we’re in the midst of a sixth extinction. Posthumanism asks how humans might, while still considering ourselves with love and care, shift priorities to recognize ourselves not at the center of the universe, but as part of a complex web among countless other beings.

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, January 26th, 2025

"World Religions Series: Baháʼí Faith"

Our world religions series continues with guest speaker, Frank Robinson, Jr., a member of the Regional Bahá’í Council of the Northeastern States. 

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

Sunday, January 19th, 2025

"Strengthening Democracy: The Power of the Civic Sphere"

Rev. Paul Langston-Daley is a part-time minister of social justice at First Parish in Concord, MA. A practicing Buddhist, Langston-Daley is a leader in ministerial ethics and ministry formation as a member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee, and has been in restorative justice work and LGBTQ+ justice as an early leader in our denomination's trans UU professionals group, TRUUST. 

Our buildings are now mask-optional. We have designated a mask-required section of our sanctuary. It is marked off and in the back right corner. Please consult with an usher if assistance is needed. 

Join Worship by Video: https://tinyurl.com/22-23fpc
Meeting ID: 999 7077 0266
Passcode: 01775
Join worship by phone: (929)205-6099 (long distance rates will apply)

FPC now has a closed captioning option in online services. If the Closed Captioning option is not turned on, you can use the button at the bottom of your screen to request that the host turn it on.

Order of Service: CLICK HERE (posted the morming of service)

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