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This Sunday, March 19th, we will welcome Rev Danielle DiBona as our guest minister. Her sermon will be " Throw Open the Doors". You are invited to join us and find out about our welcoming church.

A heartfelt WELCOME to all who signed the book and became new members of the Unitarian Church in Fall River. We would like to acknowledge the commitment that the following people have made to our congregation.

Susan Mohl Powers - Alan Powers - Del Thurston

James Donnelly - Robert Lavoie - David Ott - Susan deJong

We will attempt to simulcast our service via Zoom. For those participating by Zoom, the experience will be different than previously. The hymns and other material will not be on the screen, and those present in the sanctuary will not be able to see or hear you. If you have an Announcement or a Joy or Concern to share, you should communicate it in advance to someone who will be physically present. The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82879461348

and the passcode is FallRiver (no space).

This Week our guest leader is Rev. Paul Langston-Daley, who celebrates 25 years in ministry this year and is currently serving as the Minister of Social Action at First Parish in Concord MA and Assistant Minister at the UU Society of Fairhaven. He is a graduate of Andover Newton Theological School and the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Paul has served congregations in 7 states. 

January 22, 2023 

"Simplicity and Silence" 

The heart of Buddhism is practice, the experience of having a different relationship with ourselves and with the things around us, of actually abstracting ourselves for a time from attachment, from grasping, and so – at least for a time – to put dukkha, suffering, away from us.  What can we learn from such practices?

Our sermon for this Sunday will explore the life of  Henry David Thoreau and how his choices to “live deliberately” impacted those who loved him. Thoreau suggests that we should all live our lives deliberately and with purpose, but can we do so without using or abusing others in our lives?

January 08, 2023

 While the character Ruth may or may not have been a “bombshell," the book was deliberately fashioned to explode in the minds of complacent admirers of some of the Bible’s other books.

Prelude: Nancy Donnelly, pianist

Welcome & Lighting of the Chalice

Hymn: #58 “Ring Out, Wild Bells” to the tune TRURO

The Traditional Christmas Candle Light Service. A service of readings and carols with special music for all ages.

The Unitarian Church in Fall River

December 11, 2022 

“Our Social Justice Forebears: The Transcendentalists and Brook Farm”

            The Transcendentalists of the early 19th century greatly influenced our Unitarian religion and our Unitarian Universalism of today. Their exuberance in literature, poetry, spirituality and social justice rippled through the society of their day. But who were they and what was their connection to Brook Farm? 

“Frederick Douglass in Massachusetts” 

It was during his first seven years of freedom, spent in Massachusetts, that this escaped slave became the civil-rights hero we read about. 

Guest Minister: Rev. Richard Trudeau 

“Wisdom of Leadership from Ancient Hindu Epics and more”