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.