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Pride Sunday: How Daring of You!
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | June 23, 2024
UCM—Rev. Rita Capezzi in collaboration with Tammy Christiansen, Bonny Hughes, Devin Kreuger, Tom Lebour, Paula McNaughton, Brenda Poole, Catilyn Seal (Family Life Coordinator), and Abigail Freeman (Music Director). Technical support rom Heather...
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Flower Ceremony and Homily
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | June 05, 2024
Today is a day I always look forward to here at UCM – today is our Flower Ceremony service. The Flower Ceremony, as Rita so wonderfully put it in the Shining Chalice...
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Hear Me? Then Do What I Say!
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | May 11, 2024
Today we are talking about democracy and while, I pondered this - my neurodiverse beautiful mind drew a connection to dreams and dreaming. Did anyone have a dream last night that is...
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“But I didn’t mean to exclude!”
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | April 24, 2024
Shortly after I was married, I discovered quite unexpectedly just what some members of my new husband’s family thought of me. At the kitchen table of his paternal grandparent’s house, my mother-in-law,...
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Barriers and Boundaries
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | April 24, 2024
I tell this story with permission, with the names altered. It’s been 10 years, and it still matters. Shortly after 12-year-old Tamar Rice was murdered in Cleveland in 2014 by police, Kathleen...
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truth in the lower case
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | April 10, 2024
Truth with a capital T, unwaveringly true and ultimate—what a comfort it would be in our turbulent and frightening times. Truth that applies to all of us, and to all of us...
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Renewal: Easter and Spring
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | April 02, 2024
I had a friend once, a passionate Christian who called me each Easter morning to declare, “The stone is rolled away and the tomb is empty. Hallelujah!” There were times I envied...
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You Are Nature
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | February 20, 2024
In between the storm window and the window proper of my study at home, I have been watching a spider in a web. At some point, a beetle found its way into...
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How Can We See Our Neighbors?
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | January 29, 2024
Our Unitarian Universalist First Principle expects us to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of each person. And the First Principle applies to all of us. Every individual person, including...
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How Can You See Yourself?
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | January 22, 2024
Several years ago, while serving a congregation in Mankato, Minnesota, I sat with a congregant as they shared some of the challenges of their life: two teenagers in crisis over their identities,...