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Living in Joy
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | December 28, 2023
Our faith calls us to seek meaning, to embark on a journey of discovery, acknowledging that what we know and where we are today is not the end, it is not the whole...
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2023—Opening Words, Meditation, and Closing Words for No-Rehearse Pageant
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | December 11, 2023
Since many Unitarian Universalists are not Christian believers, and many are not theists, you might wonder why we would celebrate Christmas in this Congregation. I offer you three brief reasons, connected and...
in Humanism
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The Promise of Unitarian Universalism, Part I
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | November 15, 2023
We shall love our crooked neighbors with our crooked hearts, imperfect in our identities, in our understanding, in our compassion. But we will love, within the ultimate promise of Unitarian Universalism—that everything...
in Humanism
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To Know Where You’re Going, Know Where You’ve Been—Part II
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 24, 2023
As Unitarian Universalists, we come together, maybe not as tranquil streams exactly, to build a free church—free of narrow doctrine and narrow minds, free from a social status quo that repeats oppressions...
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To Know Where You’re Going, Know Where I’ve Been—Part I
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 18, 2023
The end. It’s the end. Of something, I don’t know what. Maybe you know? It’s the end of something—a period of time, a familiar way of doing things, the presence of a...
in Gratitude
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Thanksgiving and Gratitude
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 18, 2023
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,...
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Getting To Know Us
Speaker: Rev. Rita Capezzi | October 18, 2023
Somehow, some way, I don’t know how it happened but over the last 62 years I have grown old. I have grown old, can you imagine. I am grayer than I thought...