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Weekly Worship
Oct. 20 – Ritual Sunday: Beloved Animals
Sunday, October 20
Services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Click here to attend the 11 a.m. service via Zoom.
Click here for the digital Order of Service.
On October 20, we gather for Ritual Sunday, a partner to our planned animal blessing service in June. Ritual Sundays at First Universalist engage all ages in spiritual practices that connect and inspire. This month, we focus on the ways animals support our mental and emotional health. Instead of bringing pets, we invite you to bring symbols of your animals—collars, photos, toys—as we dedicate ourselves to their care and to the stewardship of all life. In June, we will offer a direct blessing when we will invite you bring your companion animals, but this October, we turn inward, committing our hands and hearts to the care we give.
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There’s a Place for You
On this day after the elections, there’s a place for you at First Universalist. Join us for a soft place to land, a community to care for you and each other, and the practices to help us hold it all. In song, in silence, in solidarity across difference, we’ll make space to simply be together, opening wide the doors of the church to the Twin Cities and beyond as we ground ourselves in mutual care and remember our commitments for the long haul.
While this service is oriented towards children, youth, and adults 12 and older—children of all ages are welcome, and so is the sound and joy and tears and play that comes with them.
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Morning circle for our Boston pilgrimage kids included time outside reflecting on Transcendentalism and this quote from Thoreau before heading to Walden Pond: "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good. Be good for something."
Pray for our ministerial team flying to Boston with 9 10th graders for a weekend of learning?! It started at 4am today…
The fall overnight at church is a great opportunity for youth to bond. They choose to be with their church friends and to draw the circle of friendship wider for new friends. The bonds these youth are forming run deep and are long lasting.
Learn more about youth programming like OWL (Our Whole Lives) at First U on our website under the Families tab.
Firstuniversalistchurch.org/families
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