Tuesdays with Jesus – We are the First Congregational Church in Winchester https://fcc-winchester.com A Christ-centered nurturing community, growing in faith, serving in love, welcoming all with joy. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:04:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://i0.wp.com/fcc-winchester.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-cross-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Tuesdays with Jesus – We are the First Congregational Church in Winchester https://fcc-winchester.com 32 32 71464776 Lenten Series: Death and Dying Well https://fcc-winchester.com/community/lenten-series-death-and-dying-well/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:59:21 +0000 https://fcc-winchester.com/?p=25591 Lenten Series: Death and Dying Well

Tuesdays March 11th through April 15th
6:30-8:00pm – Tucker/Palmer Rooms

Lent is a season of humble reflection on our mortality in general and specifically the passion and death of Jesus Christ and how that speaks to our own lives and deaths. We begin Lent on Ash Wednesday with the words: “from dust you have come to dust you shall return” and 6 weeks later Lent closes with a remembrance of the removal of Christ’s lifeless body from the cross on Good Friday. The church is a unique place in our culture where death and dying is not avoided, denied, or even seen necessarily as a tragedy but held within community, ritual, and promise. 

We hope you will join us on Tuesday evenings during Lent for a light supper of soup and bread followed by reflections and conversations on death and dying well. These are the topics by date:

March 11 – Christian Theology on Death and the Afterlife

March 18 – Sharing personal experiences and perspectives on death; i.e. “Death Cafe”


March 25 – Crash course on Advance Directives with the President and CEO of Honoring Choices Massachusetts, Ellen DiPaola, JD.

April 1 – The Dying Process in our culture, what’s wrong with it and how to do it better.


April 8 – Considering your own funeral and what’s important to you.

Last Tuesday we considered all that’s involved in funeral and memorial preparation, what green burials look like in MA, what resources we have in the Reno Garden and more. Here is a document that covers just about everything you need to think about you or your loved one’s funeral.


April 15 – Jesus’ Dying and Death and what it says to us.

Please consider signing up to make a soup for one of the sessions by going to this link.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0945A5AF2BA5FCC43-55368014-lenten#/

 

]]> 25591 Tuedays with Jesus https://fcc-winchester.com/latest-news/tuedays-with-jesus/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:48:16 +0000 https://fcc-winchester.com/?p=10547 Tuesday, March 9, 2021 6 pm
This Tuesday we’ll gather for our 3rd session and read the third chapter of “Trouble the Water” which leads us into a consideration of why white people and specifically white Christians and the church have work to do to address racial injustice in our society. We’ll listen and discuss while we eat together. The soups du jour are Italian Sausage recommended by Maryann McCall-Taylor and Hearty Lentil recommended by Sarah Gallop. Here are the recipes. The chapters of the book stand on their own so if you haven’t been able to attend previous sessions, there’s no problem. Join us!
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