On the Backs of the Poor - spirit

Sunday, October 12, 10:30am
Hotel Aldea or https://zoom.us/j/414604040/ Password: 294513
free

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service

Speaker: The Rev. Tom Rosiello

By Kate Greenaway, UUFSMA member

This week, Rev. Tom Rosiello will ask us to consider, “How are we—as a society—supposed to treat people who have less than we do?” It’s a weighty question: religions and philosophers have grappled with it since ancient times. The teachings of the Hebrew prophets, Jesus, and the Buddha are consistently aligned in their response: those with more have a special obligation to care for those with less. Yet today, we often see the opposite—budgets are balanced and profits are made on the backs of the poor, in the US and around the world. It is the unjustly compensated labor of the poor that makes the rich richer.

This Sunday, we hope you’ll join us to look at why this happens and what our Unitarian Universalist tradition calls us to do. With the children from our Young Explorers program, we’ll start with a reading from Dr. Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle—because sometimes a children’s story is the best way to reveal a grown-up truth.

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 anne.geyer@comcast.net 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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