by Christine | May 17, 2022 | Sermons
REFLECTION: WHAT IS PEACE? Charles Nazarian, GUUC Service on 05-15-22 In our Call to Worship you and Lucille recited the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. They are among the most profound messages to humanity from the great Teacher. Each one expresses...
by Christine | May 2, 2022 | Sermons
To Seek Out Belonging © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 1, 2022 (and Sabbath, below) “The deepest nature of the soul is relationship.” (John O’Donohue) During these past two years we have been challenged to the very core of our beings by the...
by Christine | Apr 25, 2022 | Sermons
Karl Frank 4/24/2022 Welcome. Welcome to this, our Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church. All are welcome here, I am Karl Frank, not the minister, but a member of the congregation, leading the service today in the temporary absence of Reverend Janet Parsons,...
by Christine | Apr 19, 2022 | Sermons
The Bright Spark of Resurrection © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church April 17, 2022 It would have been in the pre-dawn hours, maybe in the gray first light, when women carrying all they would need to anoint and prepare a body set...
by Christine | Apr 11, 2022 | Sermons
No Going Back © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 10, 2022 This past Thursday evening, there was a march here in downtown Gloucester, something that hasn’t happened much in the past two years. Each April, for many years, the Gloucester Coalition for...
by Christine | Apr 7, 2022 | Sermons
What Urgency Calls You? © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 3, 2022 It struck me, re-reading David Whyte’s poem that Mern read for us a few minutes ago (What to Remember When Waking) is how often the poets urge us to make sure that we are trying to...