April 28, 2024
death
“Remembrance Service”
January 7, 2024
- Anna Fadden
- Cindy Malley
- Monica Pilman
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- "I Live My Life in Widening Circles" (poem) by Rainer Maria Rilke
- death
- remembrance
- Time for All Ages
Our annual Remembrance Service, remembering those loved ones we lost in the last year, as well as babies born in the past year.
“Dia de los Muertos”
October 30, 2022
- Peter Ersland
- Rev. Jackie Clement
- Thea Shapiro
- ancestors
- death
- Dia de los Muertos
- Native American
- Time for All Ages
FCU’s own (retired UU minister) Rev. Jackie Clement led a wonderful multigenerational service on “Dia de los Muertos” (“Day of the Dead”).
“Remembrance Sunday”
January 3, 2021
- Andy Leyenaar
- Bill Duston
- Cindy Malley
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Tatum Joy Hammer
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- death
- online worship
- remembrance
- Time for All Ages
It is a tradition of FCU to have a “Remembrance Sunday” on the first Sunday of the new year, remembering those we lost in the past year, as well as welcoming those who were born in the past year. We light candles to remember, and to welcome. The Deacons co-lead the service.
“A Unitarian Universalist Look at the Afterlife”
November 1, 2020
We took a healing look at death and the afterlife from a UU perspective. Guest appearances by Carolyn McCreary and The Artemis Singers. If you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” to see the Order of Service.
“Remembering the Astronauts”
January 6, 2019
This reading (the poem “Astronauts” by the great Robert Hayden) and my short sermon (“Remembering the Astronauts) were shared at the end of Remembrance Sunday. Remembrance Sunday is an annual FCU tradition; the congregation lights Candles of Love and Memory to recall irreplaceable family and friends who died in the past year as well as Candles of Hope and Joy to celebrate children dear to us who were born in the past year. Errata note: The beautiful line in Hayden’s poem is “once Absolute Otherwhere” (not “Everywhere”, as I mistakenly say a couple of times in this video.) My apologies! Read his gorgeous poem at this link.