Category Archives: Worship
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This Week in Worship (Sunday, March 9, 2025)
Posted on March 7, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipThe First Sunday in Lent leads us into the wilderness as it always does to accompany Jesus in his 40-day sojourn where he confronts the Devil, the one referred to as the Father of Lies. It takes all he has to hold to his truth and his purpose as God’s beloved son come to restore […]
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Pastoral Letter on Ash Wednesday, 2025
Posted on March 5, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Ripley, WorshipDear Congregation, Welcome to Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent 2025. This evening, we will gather in Ripley Chapel at 7:30 PM for our Ash Wednesday service, which will include beautiful Taizé music, scripture readings, a time of corporate confession, and the imposition of ashes—either on the forehead or hand. We hope you’ll join […]
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SoulCollage® Workshop
Posted on February 28, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ripley, Spiritual Practice, WorshipDrawing a Circle of Love: Lent, Belonging, Sanctuary. SATURDAY, March 15, 2025, 9:00 am – Noon Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel at First Congregational Church, Winchester. Jane Ring Frank, certified SoulCollage® facilitator, will guide a morning of creative, spiritual practice – Saturday, March 15, 9:00 am – noon. Together, we will seek the […]
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Join Us for Transfiguration Sunday Worship at 10 am (March 2, 2025)
Posted on February 27, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipThis Sunday, we celebrate the transfiguration of Jesus Christ, as described in three of the four Gospels of the New Testament. Passages from Luke and Exodus, the Ignatian practice of contemplative imagination, and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Book of Longings (a recent novel set in the time of Jesus in the first century CE) will guide our […]
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Ash Wednesday Taizé
Posted on February 24, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ripley, WorshipWedneday, March 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM in Ripley Chapel Live in-person ONLY from the stunning Ripley Chapel at First Congregational Church, Winchester. First Congregational Church offers a poignant and meditative Ash Wednesday service, featuring the ecumenical prayers and music of France’s Taizé community. All denominations are welcome. As Lent begins, please join us for […]
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Join Us This Sunday for Worship (February 23, 2025)
Posted on February 21, 2025 by Sarah Marino in WorshipThis Week in Worship Let us together “leave God not alone” and come worship the One who is our Creator, our Redeemer and our Sustainer. It looks like we’ll have a storm-free Sunday with the temps even warming up a bit. Join us in the sanctuary or online at 10am when the choir will be returning with a beautiful […]
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Worship with us this Sunday in the Sanctuary or Online at 10 am (February 16, 2025)
Posted on February 14, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, WorshipJoin us on Sunday morning at 10am for worship and we’ll consider the very heartbeat of the Gospel and the core of Jesus’ teaching which in the Gospel of Luke is known as the “Sermon on the Plain.” It looks like we’ll be facing another snowy Sunday morning and if the projected totals hold it’ll […]
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Join Us for Worship This Sunday at 10 in the Sanctuary (February 9, 2025)
Posted on February 7, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipOur scripture given for this Sunday is Luke 5:1-11 where Jesus tells the disciples to cast their nets into the water one last time after a long night of futile fishing. In doing so their nets fill to bursting. There’s something here for us about scarcity and abundance, about being willing to cast out in faith […]
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Join Us for Communion Worship This Sunday (February 2, 2025)
Posted on January 31, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipThis Sunday, we return to the Sanctuary! We will read texts from the Prophet Jeremiah and the Apostle Paul, and we’ll consider how they speak to the “hidden child” or “inner child” within all of us. We also invite you to partake in the Sacrament of Holy Communion. We are an Open Table congregation, so […]
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Join us for Worship This Sunday at 10 am (January 26, 2025)
Posted on January 24, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, WorshipJoin us for our final Sunday worshipping in Ripley Chapel for the winter and we’ll go out with a BANG! 2 members from the Willie J Laws Band who will be rockin’ the place on Friday night (Rick Forseze and Lenny Bradford) will join Jane Potter on piano and lead our music on Sunday. The music […]
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