The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
What’s your idea of God? What do you believe about God? How has your belief changed during the course of your life so far? Was there an incident that caused a dramatic change? There is a Talmudic story that one day in Auschwitz, a group of Jews put God on trial. They charged him with […]
May Sarton, “Of Grief“ There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old griefs so proud They never speak a word; They never can be mended. And these nourish the will And keep it […]
Opening Words from UU minister Ralph Helverson: Deep in ourselves resides the religious impulse.Out of the passions of our clay it rises.We have religion when we stop deluding ourselves that we are self-sufficient, self-sustaining or self-derived. We have religion when we hold some hope beyond the present, some self-respect beyond our failures. We have religion when […]
At our high school graduation ceremony I remember thinking it was strange to refer to the event as ‘commencement exercises.’ I thought, “But this ceremony marks ‘the end’ of high school, and for the majority of the graduating class of Wilmington High, (all 73 of us in the class of ’58), it’s the end of […]
Last week we acknowledged the 50th anniversary of the marriage of our forebears – the Universalists and the Unitarians. A 50th birthday is the beginning of maturity in a person’s life, and one of the hallmarks of maturity is the ability to look at one’s past with a better understanding of how you got ‘from […]
Preface: On this day fifty years ago our Unitarian and Universalist forebears formed a merger, creating the UUA. This merger was not an easy task. While they had a lot in common, there were some serious differences. Thomas Starr King, Unitarian minister in San Francisco during the Civil War, once quipped: “The Universalists believe that […]
Opening words: E. E. Cummings if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)haveone. It will not be a pansy heaven nora fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley butit will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rosetall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over hersilent)with eyes which are really petals […]
Opening Words: The Pasture, Robert Frost I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long. — You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so […]
Opening words: A reading from Matthew 28: “Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone, […]
Today is Palm Sunday in the Christian calendar; Passover begins on Tuesday, and Good Friday (Holy Friday – thus the word ‘good’ meaning Holy.) I want to offer a very brief review of Passover, Palm Sunday and Good Friday as a way of getting at the underlying theme of suffering and grief that weaves them […]
