Category Archives: Worship

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  All Souls’ & All Saints’ Taizé Service

  Posted on October 22, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ripley, Worship

  All Souls’ & All Saints’ Taizé Service Taizé chants + prayers in honor of All Souls/All Saints WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025, 7:30 P.M. Live in-person from the stunning Ripley Chapel at First Congregational Church, Winchester. First Congregational Church offers a poignant and meditative service, in honor of Allhallowtide (All Souls and All Saints Days) featuring the […]

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  Join us for our Jazz Blessing of the Animals on the Town Common (October 19, 2025)

  Posted on October 17, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Giving, Latest News, Worship, Youth

  St Hildegard of Bingen says “every creature is a glimmering glistening mirror of the divine” and this we celebrate as we gather out on the Town Common for our annual Animal Blessing service this Sunday. Rev. Will has returned from his sabbatical and he and Rev. Maeve will be joyfully available to bless the “glimmering […]

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  Join Us for a Healing Service This Sunday (October 12, 2025)

  Posted on October 10, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Health and Wellness, Latest News, Worship

  Over the past few weeks in my sermons, we have heard a lot about discipleship. This week in our texts we find the people of Israel in exile in a foreign land called Babylon. God’s advice through the prophet, Jeremiah is to build, plant and pray while in exile. We will also have the Health […]

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  Join Us for our Jazz Blessing of the Animals

  Posted on October 8, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship, Youth

  Sunday, October 19, 2025, 10 AM, Town Common Rain Location: Chidley Hall Please join us on the Town Common where we will swing, celebrate and give thanks for all of God’s creatures, blessing our animal companions. We welcome all pets—furry, scaly, hairy, feathery and even plush! Photos of beloved pet companions are welcome in place […]

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  Choral Arts New England Names Jane Ring Frank as 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

  Posted on October 8, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Community, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Ripley, Worship

  Sunday, October 26th Afternoon Ceremony hosted by First Congregational (Winchester). Free to All. Reception After. First Congregational Church is pleased to present the Choral Arts New England 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony and its latest recipient, our Minister of Worship and the Arts Jane Ring Frank. This free event will honor Ms. Frank’s 35-year contribution […]

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  World Communion Sunday (October 5, 2025)

  Posted on October 3, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  October 5 is World Communion Sunday, wherein we celebrate the gift of the vast and diverse Body of Christ around the globe. Though we are many people, we are one in Christ: strengthened and connected by the love of Jesus’s ministry and enduring legacy of peace, fellowship, and justice. Our Scripture readings this Sunday come […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (September 28, 2025)

  Posted on September 26, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  This Sunday we will hear the story of the unbinding of Lazarus. Lazarus was an avatar of God’s mercy. We too are asked to unbind ourselves and be avatars of God’s mercy. We bear God in our hearts, bodies, and spirits in spite of our flaws and failings. We bear the Christ out in to […]

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  Just Peace Offering

  Posted on September 25, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Giving, Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Outreach, Worship

  Just Peace Offering Update With your help, we have raised almost $800 for this year’s Just Peace Offertory recipient: Friendship Home in Norwell! As a reminder, the Outreach Ministry chooses one recipient every September. Founded in 1999 by two mothers of adult children with developmental disabilities, Friendship Home helps guests lead meaningful and productive lives […]

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  Join Us for Worship This Sunday (September 21, 2025)

  Posted on September 19, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Ministries/Task Force News, Worship

  This Sunday, we will meditate upon the words of the Prophet Jeremiah (8:18-9:1) and the author of the Gospel of Luke (16:1-13), whose passages ask us: do we hear the cries around us, and, if so, to which do we respond? We will also welcome a daughter of God into the Body of Christ through […]

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  Join Us This Sunday in the Sanctuary at 10 am or Online (September 14, 2025)

  Posted on September 11, 2025 by Sarah Marino in Latest News, Worship

  It was great to see everyone last week and meet a lot of you! In this week’s sermon, I will share with you a story of getting lost when I was very young. The text in Luke is about the shepherd leaving the 99 to go look for the One lost. Jesus challenges us in […]

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