Category Archives: Spiritual Practice

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  Stronger Than Hate

  Posted on October 31, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Outreach, Spiritual Practice, Youth

  Dear Congregation, On Friday night (November 2) at 6:30, clergy from around Winchester will lead an Interfaith Vigil at Temple Shir Tikvah (34 Vine St) in response to the violence in Pittsburgh.   We hope you as congregation members of First Congregational Church will consider joining us as an expression of solidarity with our Jewish […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (Oct 28)

  Posted on October 26, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Outreach, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  Please join us this Sunday for worship at 10 am and bring with you a photo of an ancestor. It’s All Souls Sunday and we’ll build an ancestral altar by coming forward and placing our pictures on the communion table. Rev. Will will preach on the theme and the choir has a beautiful piece of […]

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  All Souls Sunday October 28

  Posted on October 24, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  This coming Sunday we will be celebrating All Souls.  This celebration has links to many cultures and dates back centuries.  Connected to Halloween primarily by our love of the spooky and the scary, this remembrance of our beloved dead falls on the Sunday before it.  And far from being afraid of the dead, All Souls […]

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  Centering Prayer- Preparing for Worship

  Posted on October 16, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Health and Wellness, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  Using a sacred word, Centering Prayer draws one’s focus and attention to interior stillness and opens us to God’s presence and action within. Join us for Centering Prayer on October 28 at 9 am in the Tucker Room. The guided program and introduction is open to those who are curious about centering prayer and those familiar with the practice.

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  A Guided Sensory Walk in Nature

  Posted on October 5, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Community, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Spiritual Practice, Youth

  Please join us for an ALL AGES Health Ministry Event: A Guided Sensory Walk in Nature Sunday, October 21st, 2:00pm – 3:15pm Wright-Locke Farm (Weather permitting- Rain Date November 4th) Take an hour as a family to slow down and experience the calming, restorative effects of a sensory walk in nature. Adults and family groups […]

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  Centering Prayer- Preparing for Worship

  Posted on September 20, 2018 by Sarah Marino in Adult Ed, Health and Wellness, Latest News, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  Using a sacred word, Centering Prayer draws one’s focus and attention to interior stillness and opens us to God’s presence and action within. Join us for Centering Prayer on September 23 at 9 am in the Tucker Room. The guided program and introduction is open to those who are curious about centering prayer and those familiar with the practice

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  Ripley Chapel Renovation:  Final Design Set!

  Posted on September 1, 2018 by Nancy in Community, Latest News, Spire link, Spiritual Practice, Worship

  The Ripley Chapel Working Group has decided on the Final Design for the renovation of Ripley Chapel. This past March, as you may recall, the Working Group called for a pause in the work with Torrey Architecture, Inc. and Kaplan Construction to finalize a design because the estimated costs of the design we were working on […]

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  Seasons of the Spirit: The Call of Restorative Justice

  Posted on September 1, 2018 by Nancy in Latest News, Spire link, Spiritual Practice

  As we enter autumn, the realities of our deeply polarized religious, social and political world become increasingly apparent. As Christians, scripture and tradition call us to be “light in the shadows”: bearers of good news to a broken world.  How do we orient ourselves in such a time as this? Jesus points us toward taking responsibility for doing […]

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  Introduction to the Old Testament

  Posted on September 1, 2018 by Nancy in Adult Ed, Community, Latest News, Small Groups, Spire link, Spiritual Practice

  Starting Tuesday, Sept 25 On Tuesday evenings at 7:00-8:30 PM for 6 weeks, we will be offering the second course of the Massachusetts Bible Society’s Exploring the Bible series Introducing the Old Testament. This second course helps you better understand the Old Testament in the context of the world in which it was written. The Old […]

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  Calling from the Narrows

  Posted on August 31, 2018 by Nancy in Latest News, Spire link, Spiritual Practice

  A group of us this summer went to the ICE building in Burlington with our Jewish friends for a public lament over our government’s merciless practice of separating immigrant children from their parents.  The Rabbis who led the gathering sang a Hebrew chant based upon an interpretation of Psalm 118:5 – “I call to you […]

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