Ingathering/Water Ceremony
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | September 23, 2025
2025-0907—Ingathering/Water Ceremony UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi One of my daily spiritual practices is to take a photo “Out My Window.” I post it on Facebook. It is a practice that I began...
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Flower Ceremony: “Shimmering Threads” of Connection
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | June 16, 2025
2025-06-01 There’s a presumption about ministers you might have heard, something like each of us only has one good sermon in us, one we repeat over and over again. It’s a sermon...
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | June 16, 2025
2025-06-15 Some of you remember back to the fall of 2023, shortly after I arrived to serve as interim minister with this congregation. It’s ok if you don’t remember, perfectly ok if...
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We, the Nurturers of the Now and the Future
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 24, 2025
2025-05-11 I’m a real mother. You can hear the joke in that if you want to. Safe and legal abortion, at one time in American, meant that I did not become a...
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Earth Day and Renewal
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 22, 2025
2025-04-27 Finally, friends, spring has sprung in Buffalo. The cherry trees bloomed this week, just in time, for a change, for the annual cherry blossom festival. And here too in Mississauga, here...
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Easter Sunday with the Unitarian Universalists
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 22, 2025
2025-04-20 I am not a Christian, and so Easter has never been much of an event for me, aside from a basket full of chocolate, colorful hard-boiled eggs, and a nice family...
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Committed to Justice, Awakened in Love
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 21, 2025
I’ve served this congregation for about 20 months now, and many of you have gotten to know me well. Some of you have even become Facebook friends, and in the days since...
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Am I Strong Enough for This Journey?
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | February 09, 2025
The January 25, 2025 post in Dr. Diana Butler Bass’s blog “The Cottage” inspired the poetry,
readings, and advice of this service and sermon. You can find her blog on Substack if you...
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Resistance and Resilience
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | February 02, 2025
“Joy is a revolutionary force. We need it as much as we need anger because it is joy that will help keep us in these bodies long enough to enact justice.” While...
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Renewal Requires Risk
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | January 12, 2025
Renewing relationships of all kinds involves some risk—of being vulnerable, of making mistakes, of suffering when misunderstood. How might we learn to embrace such risk, so that relationships of all kinds are...