This Week, This Month at 1st Universalist – Sept. 19, 2008
- Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 — Social Justice Plate Offering during service. Money collected will benefit children in the Rochester City School District with their back-to-school needs. Sarah Singal and Santosha Kuykendall will also be collecting in-kind donations (backpacks and school supplies) after church.
- Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008 — deadline today — First U T-shirt order will be placed today. The navy blue t-shirts are $15 each. If you’d like to put your t-shirt check in the plate during the offertory, please write “T-shirt Fund” and size on the memo line of the check. Contact: Santosha.
Friday, Sept 26, 2008 at 6:30p.m. — in the adult lounge — Movies to Inspire and Uplift will show “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story” followed by discussion. There is no charge, but donations of snacks to share are gratefully appreciated.
Dorothy Day is no saint. She lives hard, makes mistakes, endures the consequences. But the unquenchable fire burning within her cannot be contained. Dorothy wants to make a difference. During the Depression, she vows to house the homeless, feed the hungry, tend the sick. Easily said. Not easily done when her total finances amount to 97 cents in a battered canister. Yet Dorothy persists, walking on frequently stormy waters of faith.
Popular stars and important themes combine in this compelling true story of the “American Mother Teresa,” filmed by Paulist Pictures (Romero) from a script by ER writer and executive producer John Wells. Moira Kelly plays Day, the impassioned New York journalist who launched the activist newspaper “Catholic Worker” and put the words she wrote into controversial action. Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon and Brian Keith join Kelly in this moving saga of a faith not just believed, but lived. RATED PG-13 for a range of thematic elements, some sexuality and brief language.
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- Sunday, Sept. 28 to Oct. 5, 2008 — RAIHN host week at 1st Universalist. See our Social Justice page under Congregational Life for details. There are many volunteer opportunities available. If you are able to help, please contact Matt Comeau.
- Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 — Small Group Ministry based on the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism begins today. Please see the sign up sheet on the bulletin board in the Clara Barton Lounge.
- Friday, October 10 & 11, 2008 — NYS Convention of Universalists (NYSCU) Annual meeting of the NYSCU hosted by the UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie. Please see bulletin board for agenda and registration forms.
- Thursday, October 16, 2008 — deadline today — UUA Principles and Practices: The UUA Commission on Appraisal has recommended changes and invites feedback. Please go to http://www25.uua.org/coa/ and click on the word “draft” in the first paragraph.
Friday, October 17, 2008 — in the adult lounge, Movies to Inspire and Uplift will show “Iron Jawed Angels”, starring Hilary Swank We will be viewing this movie in the sanctuary at 6:30 PM and will move to the Clara Barton Lounge for discussion directly following the movie. There is no charge for movie viewing and discussion time. Anyone wishing to bring a snack to share will be gratefully appreciated.
Said reviewer Bret Fetzer, “The fight for women’s voting rights has rarely been given as dramatic a treatment as in Iron Jawed Angels. Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry) and Frances O’Connor (Mansfield Park) star as second-wave suffragettes Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who led the final fight for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The mounting energy of the fight–and the increasingly nasty opposition–gains real momentum when a wartime picket line leads to Paul, Burns, and their sisters-in-arms being arrested on trumped-up charges and imprisoned. The actors–including Julia Ormond (Smilla’s Sense of Snow), Angelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor, The Grifters), and Brooke Smith (Vanya on 42nd Street)–give fervent, determined performances.”
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