Worship Service Themes for 2023-2024
Spiritual Practice of the Month of March: Transformation
This year, Rev. Parisa invites anyone who wishes to join in a spiritual practice each month to go along with the theme. This is a do-it-yourself guide, and we hope you’ll share your insights with one another as you engage the practice.
March: Transformation
What does it take to make change in ourselves, in our community, and in our world? How can we mark and honor the changes that take place slowly, over time? How can we mark new life and fresh understanding that happens with and around us? This month we mark transformations of many different kinds: the spring equinox, Easter and the Transgender Day of visibility.
April: Interdependence
In her book, Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown writes:
“E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G—is connected. The soil needs rain, organic matter, air, worms and life in order to do what it needs to do to give and receive life. Each element is an essential component. Organizing takes humility and selflessness and patience and rhythm while our ultimate goal of liberation will take many expert components. Nature teaches us that our work has to be nuanced and steadfast. And more than anything, that we need each other—at our highest natural glory—in order to get free.”
May: Renewal
This month FUUSN will call a new minister, preparing to renew itself through the process of entering into a new covenant, and with it so many new possibilities. We’ll consider in worship the many ways we find renewal in community, and the hopes we have for things to come.
June: Pride
In the last two services of the congregational year, we’ll celebrate the joy of the work we’ve done together through this interim time, we’ll join with the LGBTQIA community of Boston to celebrate Pride, and we’ll celebrate the wonderful flower ceremony and child dedication that makes us proud to be part of this congregation.
