Reflections Archive

Gratitude for Mystery

Category: Gratitude / Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
October 27, 2024

“Today the peace of autumn pervades the world, . . . In every speck of dust, in every part of , in the visible and invisible worlds, in the planet, the sun, and...

Gratitude for Abundance

Category: Gratitude / Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
October 21, 2024

Almost 20 years ago, my family housed for a year two teenaged siblings whose mother had been deported. The circumstances were challenging, with a lot of emotional pain. We had to learn how to live...

Celebration of Thanks (Brunch Church) Homily

Category: Spiritual Growth / Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
October 17, 2024

It’s the eve of your Thanksgiving Day. For me, it is the eve of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, still Columbus Day for some Americans. You have your own traditions and stories about thanksgiving, inspired by colonization...

International Day of Peace and Re-dedication of the Peace Pole

Category: Spiritual Growth / Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
September 29, 2024

We commemorate today International Peace Day. Also called World Peace Day, it is observed each year on September 21, by countries all across the world. Peace Day was established, in 1981 by a unanimous United...

Truth and Reconciliation Sunday

Category: Spiritual Growth / Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
September 29, 2024

Way back when I was an undergraduate English major, I took a course on Southern literature with a brand-new assistant professor. Those brand-new assistant professors tend to lay down some brand-new truths. We were reading...

We Covenant to…

Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi
September 16, 2024

Friends, we are living into covenant this year, leaning into covenant this month. What on earth does that mean and why are we bothering? These are legitimate questions.