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November 1, 2022 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – Resistance … The Maker of Songs! – November 1, 2022

Over the last dozen or so years, I have been active as an elder for Two Coyotes Wilderness school in Newtown. I recall a time when fifty or so of the participants and staff had gathered deep in a forest in Granby to hear the teachings from a Mohican elder. We were huddled around an […]

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June 29, 2021 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – Mother Earth has a Dangerous Fever – June 29, 2021

On Earth Day this year, we were blessed with the reflections of Sr. Kathleen Deignan, an Eco-theologian from Iona College. She reviewed with us the fact that we are in the period of the sixth extinction of species on the earth. As we watch the daily news regarding the continuous break up of arctic ice […]

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April 22, 2021 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – Earth Day – April 23, 2021

As Unitarians we are blessed with the rich reflections of our elder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He invites us to experience our call to transcendental unity with nature: “We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every […]

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October 27, 2020 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – Experience a Pathway to Truth – October 27, 2020

“The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it. Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom. We have a language of truth growing in our heart that only […]

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April 20, 2020 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

Reflections of an Earth-walker – April 19, 2020 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. My fellow travelers… COVID-19 is a common experience we have as a forced Sabbath. “The intimacy of experience is where the simplest teachers present themselves.” Stopped in our tracks by the presence of an unseen force, it moves amongst […]

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February 18, 2020 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – From Aging to Saging – February 18, 2020

FROM AGING TO SAGING … Reflections of an Elder in process! A number of weeks ago, I was serving as the Pastoral Care Chaplain at our candle boat after our Sunday service. A middle-aged septuagenarian congregant came forward to share a dilemma he was facing. He shared: “Over the last three years, I have lost […]

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December 10, 2019 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

A Minister’s Message – The Gift of the Present – December 10, 2019

We are in the cycle of the year… when darkness is upon us and taking us into a time of waiting. As we move through this season both metaphorically and psychologically, there are many things about our current life that could depress us or leave us without direction. It is critical to stay focused on […]

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September 24, 2010 by Rev. Jim Francek - Community Minister – Pastoral Care

My Spiritual Journey: From the Answers to the Questions! – April 11, 2010 (audio available)

 CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. When I introduce myself these days, I say I am a Euro-American of the Celtic and Slavic tribes. I am the eldest of 10 children, 9 boys and 1 girl who grew up in a traditional Catholic home in Michigan in ‘40s-‘50s. I had an optimum experience of growing […]

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