First Universalist Church of Rochester

Sundays

Connecting:

Sunday Services are weekly at 10:30am.

All are welcome to worship with us virtually via Zoom, or in-person in our beautiful sanctuary!

Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131764422

Via Phone: Dial 1-646-558-8656, and enter meeting ID 131-764-422

We need in-person Ushers and Greeters! Sign up to be an in-person usher and/or greeter here: https://signup.com/go/WRqPsjC

Our Drop-In Discussions are held virtually on Tuesday evenings, and in person on the first Sunday of each month at 9:15am in the Chalice room. We take a break from our in-person drop-in discussions over the summer, but we resume them each September. We hope to see you virtually or in person!

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Upcoming Services

March 2025

March 2 | Keeping Love at the Center in Times Like Thes

Our newly adopted set of values asks that we keep Love at the Center of all that we do. In times such as these – when forces are at work to undermine basic human needs in brazen acts of harm – it is difficult to know how this is possible. Yet this is the labor we are called to if we are to not become what we most reject – even in times such as these.

— Rev. Cindy Terlazzo

March 9 | Conflict as a Pathway to Deeper Interdependence

Conflict can be an essential way to deepen relationships, embrace honesty, and learn about one another. In these oft conflictual times, what can we learn about one another when we lean into conflict, rather than avoiding it? Rev. Lane-Mairead will be referencing and sharing out First Universalist's new Covenant of Right Relations and Policy on Responsible Behavior.

— Rev. Lane-Mairead Campbell

March 16| TBA

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March 23 | Butterfly Wings Beating and the Interrelatedness of the World

Process theologian Alfred North Whitehead used this image of a butterfly's wings beatings and its reverberations and influence as a central image to the idea that what one of us does affects all of us. As First Universalist explores interdependence, a reminder that individual and collective decisions, actions, and indecisions have reverberations beyond what can be seen at first.

— Rev. Lane-Mairead Campbell

March 30 | Can We Perceive Each Other?

To be seen and understood is at the heart of many healthy human relationships. On this Sunday closest to Transgender Day of Visibility, let us explore the healing power of being seen and understood as well as what we might be missing when we choose not to see or choose not to be seen.

— Rev. Lane-Mairead Campbell

*First Universalist has a long-standing tradition of having one Sunday sermon a month be presented by someone other than our minister. Our lay-led services give our minister well-deserved unscheduled time, as well as allowing us to share our individual spiritual journeys, experiences and diverse world views, which is an important part of our rich Unitarian Universalist heritage.