Calendar of events
Here you will find all of our congregation’s Sunday Services, Board and Committee meetings and other events. Use the calendar controls to see events for past or future dates. For a quick look at recent Sunday Services, click here!
In the bottom of Pandora’s box was hope. It was what saved her and Prometheus from all the challenges life throws at us. Hope allows us to dream, to plan and to imagine a future we might never be part of.
This pre-recorded sermon is part of the Meaning Making series.
Bio: Rev. Wayne (Wayne) is recently retired from the Neighbourhood congregation in Toronto. He helped start that congregation, and initiated many interesting programs. Rev. Wayne cleared the land to build a family home, and now lives there 4 months of the year with his wife Joan. They have 3 grown children and no pets.
“The family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people.”
― Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
This Mother’s Day, Reilly will invite us to continue reflecting on interdependence through the lens of the relationship between mothers and children. What do we learn from this most primal relationship about what it really means to be human? What wisdom can we glean about the complex relationship between individuality and interdependence from observing mothers and their children? And how do we apply these lessons within our UU communities, so our communities can be sources of spiritual fortitude and resilience in these turbulent times? Please feel invited to share a story about your own mother figures (biological or otherwise) during Joys and
Concerns or the forum at this special service.