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“Growth” Vespers Service

Every Wednesday evening we will hold an online Vespers Service at 7:00pm.  This will be a time for calm reflection, filled with special music, testimonials, joys and sorrows, prayer, and meditation.  If you would like to share a reading, poem or music during this service, please contact Rev. Dave. To join the service, click on this link: … Continue reading “Growth” Vespers Service

The World Awakes Again

Come join us online for this service where we will explore what Easter means to us as Unitarian Universalists. How do we make sense of these cyclical themes of rebirth and resurrection, especially in a culture that often focuses on the linear and the finite? During this special Sunday Easter service, you are invited to … Continue reading The World Awakes Again

“Renewal” Vespers Service

Every Wednesday evening we will hold an online Vespers Service at 7:00pm.  This will be a time for calm reflection, filled with special music, testimonials, joys and sorrows, prayer, and meditation.  If you would like to share a reading, poem or music during this service, please contact Rev. Dave. To join the service, click on this link: … Continue reading “Renewal” Vespers Service

Commitment Sunday

On this Sunday we will celebrate the culmination of our annual fund drive. By pledging to our congregation each year, we re-affirming our commitment to one another and to the work of First Parish. Come join us for a joyous online worship service of praise and gratitude for this community that we all help to … Continue reading Commitment Sunday

“Spring” Vespers Service

Every Wednesday evening we will hold an online Vespers Service at 7:00pm.  This will be a time for calm reflection, filled with special music, testimonials, joys and sorrows, prayer, and meditation.  If you would like to share a reading, poem or music during this service, please contact Rev. Dave.  To join the service, click on this link: … Continue reading “Spring” Vespers Service

Blessing of the Animals

On this special online intergenerational service, all are invited to introduce your pets or stuffed animals to the congregation!  There will be a time for your furry friend to receive a special blessing, testimonials from our children, and fun music to celebrate our beloved animals.  For especially during these trying times, we know that our … Continue reading Blessing of the Animals

Fear

https://youtu.be/VHSsTZiXPgU Rev. Egan will explore the deep sense of fear so many of us are feeling during this worldwide pandemic.  What is to come in the next months?  Will I get sick?  Will my parents make it through this crisis?  We will come together online to share our deepest concerns and hold one another in … Continue reading Fear

Renewing our Covenant

As our annual pledge drive formally kicks off, we will hear about why supporting First Parish is important. Every year we renew our covenant with one another to take care of this community; to give of our time, our talents, and our resources, so that we can continue to have a church to call home. … Continue reading Renewing our Covenant

Necessary Beauty

Rev. Ken Read-Brown, who has served First Parish UU in Hingham (Old Ship Church) since 1987, will be preaching on “Necessary Beauty.”  Is beauty just a pleasant frill in our lives?  Or is beauty every bit as essential as truth and goodness to the health of our souls and the health of our shared lives … Continue reading Necessary Beauty

Same Planet, Different Worlds

On this Sunday, Rev. Egan will explore how the environmental crisis affects different communities differently. Through an unequal allocation of resources, policies that benefit those with wealth and power, and an exclusion of communities of color from the decision making process, environmental racism is on the rise. As our climate continues heat up, how will … Continue reading Same Planet, Different Worlds