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Halloween/Samhain Service
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | November 24, 2025
October 26, 2025—Halloween/Samhain Service UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi I’m dressed as a stereotypical witch today—black dress, pointy hat, a broom, a cauldron, a little green in cape and stocking thrown in for Elfaba....
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UCM Welcomes New Ministry
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 07, 2025
2025-1005—UCM Welcomes New Ministry UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi In the fall of 2017, I was in the second year of my ministerial internship. I was about to appear before the Ministerial Fellowship Committee...
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Message for Truth and Reconciliation Sunday
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 07, 2025
Message for Truth and Reconciliation Sunday—September 28, 2025 UCM—Organized by Rev. Rita Capezzi Centering Our Learning—Words of a Congregant My parents’ lives were irrevocably marred by tragedy and trauma. Their childhoods...
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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Message for International Day of Peace
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | September 23, 2025
Message for International Day of Peace—September 21, 2025 UCM—Organized by Rev. Rita Capezzi We begin our service outside today, weather permitting. *Re-dedication of the UCM Peace Pole As we gather...
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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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Humbly Unitarian Universalist
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 22, 2025
2025-05-04 While I would be impressed if any of you could recite our eight Unitarian Universalist principles—full disclosure, I can’t do it myself—I trust we all know one or two of them...
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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...