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Sunday, December 21, 10:30am
Hotel Aldea or https://zoom.us/j/414604040/ Password: 294513
free
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service
Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Tom Rosiello
by Kate Greenaway, UUFSMA member
As we gather on the shortest day of the year, we’ll continue to explore this season of light. The long darkness invites us to pause, breathe, and prepare for the return of the light. Across many traditions, that light has different names, but it carries a shared message of joy: the Solstice joy of the sun’s return and lengthening days, the Hanukkah joy of oil enough to keep the sacred lamp burning, and the Christmas joy of the light that Jesus’ birth brought to a waiting world.
This Sunday, our minister, the Rev. Tom Rosiello, will lead us as we light all eight candles on the Hanukkiah and all four candles on the Advent wreath as a sign that the time for joy has come.
Our world is in a hard season, and many of us are, too. If joy feels out of reach right now, you’re not alone. That is exactly why we gather: to look for and claim the joy that is still present—within us, among us, and in our wider community.
The service will feature beautiful seasonal music from several traditions, and we’ll sing familiar carols and songs together.
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith centered on shared values for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We gather not around a belief in divinity, but around community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music within the interconnected web of existence.
The UUFSMA Social Justice Foundation supports local nonprofits that provide health, educational, environmental, and other services. Learn more at https://www.uufsma.org/foundation.html .
Young Explorers is UUFSMA’s bilingual religious education program for children and youth ages 5-15. Classes are held twice a month. Everyone is welcome. Contact Anne Geyer at annegeyer12@gmail.com to learn more.
To participate in our online Sunday Service, visit www.uufsma.org and click on the Zoom Service button on the home page. If requested, enter password: 294513. Sign in from anywhere on Sunday mornings between 10:15 and 10:25 a.m. CST. Enjoy previous services at https://www.youtube.com/UUFSMA.
We meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15, in San Miguel de Allende. Join us!
Link to current service description: www.uufsma.org/upcomingservice.html
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