UPCOMING WORSHIP SERVICES
THEME FOR OCTOBER: “CULTIVATING COMPASSION”
October 5
Seeing How Fragile Everything Is
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, Tracy Hall, Music Director, and the Community Choir
Last spring, I was part of an interfaith panel for a retreat for Jewish rabbis. I shared that we often mark the Jewish High Holy Days, Hannukah, and Passover. One conservative rabbi asked, “How do you decide which Jewish holidays to honor? Why, for example, do you not celebrate Sukkot?” I have been thinking about this question ever since. Today, we will reflect on the Jewish festival of Sukkot and its timely lessons for us in October 2025.
October 12
Fruits of Wisdom, Hope, Love, and Sweet Dreams
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Religious Education, The TUUC Puppet Thing, Deborah “Spice” Kleinmann, Tracy Hall, Music Director, and the TUUC Choir, and Sarah Googe
Over the years, we have celebrated Water Communion and Flower Communion, but not an apple communion. This is the season to do just that! If you have an extra apple to bring, please do so today. The apple is a symbol of harvest and today we are celebrating the 12 years that our Music Director, Tracy Hall, has been with us. This will be Tracy’s last Sunday with us before she moves to Wilmington, Delaware to serve as the Music Director of First UU Church of Wilmington. The TUUC Puppet Thing will help us to fete and thank Tracy! So, too, will a ritual with sound---the sound of a congregation biting into an apple (not to mention the beauty of the Choir’s music!) Today we celebrate not only apples, but the fruits of our life together!
October 19
We Are Grateful To Our Sponsors: In gratitude to Ancestors
10:30 AM
SarahRuth Wekoye Davis
Who are our Sponsors, those who nourished us into existence? Gratitude, at its foundation, is to be thankful for life, for our part and place in this life, and to honor our Sources of Life, in each moment of our existence. We will explore together, Our Sponsors, and how we might be the Sponsors worthy of the Life flowing from us, with wisdom texts, new and old.
October 26
Survival of The Tenderest
10:30 AM
Rev. Clare L. Petersberger, Kara Tyler, Director of Music Education
What if, instead of Darwin’s maxim about nature’s wiring for “survival of the fittest,” we lived by the spiritual maxim “survival of the tenderest?” How would our individual lives, communities, country, and world be changed? This morning, we will reflect on words that cultivate compassion. Rev. Clare welcomes words you live by to cultivate compassion! Please e-mail to revclare@towsonuuc.org by October 20th.