6 p.m. - Family Vespers Service
This service of carols and stories is especially for children and their families.
8 p.m. - Candlelighting Vespers Service
This quiet service of reflection and music concludes with a candle lighting ceremony.
Sermons
This is a full list of sermons presented at UUCCSM since mid-1999. Links to sermon texts are included when made available by their authors. Audio recordings are also available for most sermons presented after September, 2007 by our staff ministers and others directly affiliated with our church (just click the speaker icon next to each sermon where it's available*). Audio from guest speakers is posted only when we have their permission to share it.
Hard copies of sermons by Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae are available in the church office. Contact office assistant Sibylla Nash at office@uusm.org if you have a request.
"Leaving Room for Hope: Sermons for Uncertain Times," a book of Minister Emerita Judith Meyer's sermons, is available here.
**Please Note: Video recordings are available for sermons with a small TV icon showing at the bottom of the sermon listing. Just click the icon to watch the service.**
December 24, 2001 - 4:00pm
Christmas Eve Services
December 23, 2001 - 4:00pm
A Season Turns
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
With the arrival of the winter solstice, Christmas and the coming of the New Year, we have seasonal turning points we can use to rekindle hope and dream new dreams.
December 16, 2001 - 4:00pm
Winter Pageant 2001
Graham Jarvis, Director
The performance of the annual Winter Pageant will again grace our sanctuary. The program will be a recreation of the Nativity. To features the appearance of the Friendly Beasts and will involve congregational participation and traditional holiday music. This will be an intergenerational service and no RE classes will be held.
December 9, 2001 - 4:00pm
The Last of the Light
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
The Hanukkah story offers an illustration of hope in times of scarcity what was only enough oil to keep the temple lamp burning for one night actually lasted a whole week.
December 2, 2001 - 4:00pm
By Any Other Name
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
The religious impulse - and the good it claims to do in the name of the holy - is a powerful force often used for destructive ends. How can we reconcile this fact with our own aspirations as a religious community?
November 25, 2001 - 4:00pm
All in the Family
The Rev. Susanne Intriligator, speaker
On this weekend, and during the upcoming winter holidays, our thoughts turn naturally to families, family reunions, and memories thereof. How are today's families coping with the stresses of life? How can we support and enhance our family connections?
November 18, 2001 - 4:00pm
Thanksgiving Service
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
The traditional time to give thanks for the harvest has arrived with fresh adversities for the human spirit. There is more reason than ever to think about the meaning of the holiday together.
November 11, 2001 - 4:00pm
When East Met West
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
When 19th century Unitarians Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau began reading and reflecting on Eastern religion, they opened a new era for their own tradition. And they knew it.
November 4, 2001 - 4:00pm
Spaces We Need
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
The need for sanctuary leads us into new territory inside and out. Our inner space offers a good place to begin on the outer one we hope to build.
October 28, 2001 - 4:00pm
Serving, Scrubbing, Selling A Sojourn among the Working Poor - Halloween and Dia de los Muertos Sunday
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
Journalist Barbara Ehrenreich recently wrote up her experiment trying to support herself on the income from unskilled, low wage jobs. She didn't make it. And neither are many other Americans, who work and are still not able to make ends meet. The situation is so dire that it has earned the attention of the religious community, and with good reason: this is one of the major human rights issues of our day.