We offer hybrid worship services from September to June, unless otherwise noted. You are welcome to join us in the Sanctuary, but if you are unable to be there in person or feel safer staying remote, the services are live on Zoom.
10:30 AM
Led by Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh
Back in September, Unitarian Universalist congregations around the country participated in a UU Climate Justice Revival, including First Parish. In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, we’ll revisit celebrating our Mother Earth with joy, drawing from some of the music and materials from the fall revival. Joy also is the Soul Matters theme for April.
Hymn #21: For the Beauty of the Earth
Hymn #1064: Blue Boat Home
This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.
The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09
Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303
10:30 AM
Led by the Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson, FPUU Minister Emerita
Thought for Contemplation from Anita: “In my dream, the angel shrugged and said, ‘If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination,’ and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.”-Brian Andrea
Bio: Rev. Dr. Anita Farber-Robertson, Minister Emerita here at First Parish, founded the Canton Area Helpline with the support of the Canton Clergy Association and First Parish. The Canton Helpline is still going strong forty years later and is our Faith in Action recipient for May. She served as this congregation’s parish minister from 1980 to 1991.
This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.
The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09
Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303
10:30 AM
Led by the Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs
For thousands of years, human communities have aspired to a more inclusive and mutually affirming way of being. Yet our intergenerational practices are marked by exclusion, elitism, and parochialism. On this ‘Mother’s Day,’ let’s imagine a different way of being.
This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.
The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09
Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303
10:30 AM
Led by Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh
So many of us struggle with both our understanding and experience of ‘enough.’ Join Rev. Michelle in a reflection grounded in a work by Wayne Muller entitled A Life of Being, Having, and Doing Enough. What are our countercultural spiritual practices for resting in assurance that such a life is possible for each of us?
This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and not on Zoom.
Five Points Cluster Service at the First Parish UU Stoughton
Led by globally-renowned local author Ken Liu
First Parish will be closed over the Memorial Weekend, and members and friends are encouraged to attend in person or via Zoom the service of our Five Points Cluster partner congregation at the First Parish UU Stoughton, 790 Washington Street.
10:30 AM
… How do we keep moving forward in times like these?
Led by Guest Speaker Rev. Mary Margaret Earl, UU Urban Ministry (the UU Urban Ministry also is our Faith in Action recipient for June)
In this time of intense challenge – how do we build community and strength across difference?
Bio: The Rev. Mary Margaret Earl has served as Executive Director and Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry for 10 years. In this ministry, she works for racial justice and to strengthen connections between UUs and the Roxbury neighborhood where the UUUM operates. She has served on the leadership team of Moral Movement Massachusetts, the Roxbury Cultural Network, and the search committee for the Roxbury Community College president. Prior to her arrival at the UU Urban Ministry, she spent 10 years at a faith-based nonprofit in RI serving the homeless community, She is past president of the Board of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, recipient of the Heroes of Faith Award from the Rhode Island State Council of Churches for her interfaith work, and she also has received a Courage of Conscience award from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA. She is a longtime vegan committed to standing up for nonhuman animals.
This service will be in person in the Sanctuary and virtual on Zoom.
The Zoom link to join us is: https://zoom.us/j/95664457049?pwd=RjBpWERkZWllQjk4TjJ4YnVNQ1NqZz09
Or by phone 1-929-205-6099
Meeting ID: 956 6445 7049
Passcode: 607303
Led by Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh and Worship Team
We celebrate the end of our congregational year of formal services with our annual Unitarian Universalist celebration of creativity and diversity. Bring a flower to share, and we continue to honor PRIDE month as well!
This service will be in-person only, with no Zoom option.
10:30 AM
Special informal music service led by Matt Meyer
“Come with whatever seed of faith you can muster, and listen…” -Enfleshed Liturgies
Join us for a celebration of faith and doubt through story and song. Matt Meyer will reflect on a high stakes wager, a secret doubt, and what it takes to stand up to bullies in heaven and earth.
Matt is an itinerant troubadour and worship leader who has led hundreds of services for UU congregations across the country. He has a degree in hand drumming and serves as Director of Community Life for Sanctuary Boston.
This service is live in the Sanctuary and not available on Zoom.
Your worship team encourages everyone to attend the virtual UUA General Assembly in Baltimore, available on Zoom. We encourage the creation of a watch party at FPUU for 11AM in the chapel! Worship will be led by the Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk at 11AM.
https://www.uua.org/ga/program/highlights/sunday-morning-worship
