Our Senior Youth, along with the Junior Youth, will present a service for all on this Sunday.  An integral part of the service will be the presentation of personal credos by our 10th and 11th grade youth as a culmination of their year-long participation in the Coming of Age Program.  Be prepared to enjoy a wonderful service presented by a group of truly awesome youth!

Shapes surround us each and every day. Symbols are incorporated into our day-to-day lives. Sometimes we lose sight of what significance both shapes and symbols can hold for us. Our guest, Rev. Joy Christi Przestwor, a candidate for ministry in our UU tradition, will help us reflect on the possibilities of widening our circles. She will be joining our discoveries of how much this shape and symbol has to teach us regarding the interconnection between our vulnerability and being an active participant in our faith. Come discover what “being circular” may have to offer your continued spiritual journey!

Rev. Joy Christi Przestwor was born in South Bend, IN and has lived on both the East and West coasts. Joy Christi was a member of the Adrian Dominican congregation of women religious from 1965 to 1978. She left this Catholic community of women during her second year at Harvard Divinity School where she graduated in 1980. In 1992 she moved from the West coast to the North Carolina Mountains and lived on a 33-acre dedicated space called Angel Springs Sanctuary until moving to West Hartford in the fall of 2014. Joy Christi has been a member of the Asheville, NC congregation since February of 2008. After over forty years of teaching, from primary education to graduate levels, she retired in 2012. Joy Christi was ordained as a priest in the Liberal Catholic Faith of the Malabar Rite on July 27, 2012 after completing a ministerial program with concentrations in Esoteric Christianity and Spiritual Mentoring at Sancta Sophia Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Joy Christi has been a candidate for dual affiliation through our UU ministerial program since 2009 with ordination on the 2016-2017 future horizon. 

What is transcendence? How do different religious traditions point towards spiritual transcendence? Can touching such transcendence change us as Unitarian Universalists to be more whole, healthier, and happier people? Rev. Judith Wright will lead worship this morning.

The Rev. Dr. Judith Wright will be preaching

In honor of the upcoming Earth Day, we will reflect on the current condition of our home, Mother Earth, and our evolving relationship with her.  We will look, in particular, through the lens of the lovely trees which grace our environments.  Rev. Dr. Judith Wright will lead worship this morning.   

Rev. Judith retired last June from the Northborough UU Congregation after twelve years as their settled parish minister, and now is their minister Emerita.  She has served as a UU minister in parish ministries in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and as a chaplain in the Philadelphia area.  As a UU Tibetan Buddhist, she regularly attends teachings at Namgyal monastery in Ithaca, New York, as well as the Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, MA.   A widow of the late Rev. Dr. Rudy Nemser, Rev. Judith raised four children, and now has six grandchildren.  She lives in Boylston, MA where she enjoys long walks, almost each day, with her three legged dog, Kelsang.