March 24 – 6:30 Vespers: Reflections for the Spring Equinox & 7PM Program: Exploring Creation Spirituality
6:30 Vespers will be led by Joyce Hooley Gingrich. March 24 will be the first Vespers after the First Day of Spring (The Spring Equinox, is on March 20 this year,) thus, we will be listening to selected readings from Aldo Leopold, and reflecting together on geese and on spring as a season for moving forward with commitment.
7:00 PM Program: We will be exploring Original Blessing Theology. Come help us identify some roots and commonalities with contemporary Unitarian Universalist understandings, and find out why Cardinal Ratzinger ordered an inquisition into Matthew Fox after he published his treatise, Original Blessing, A Primer in Creation Spirituality in 1983. Facilitator: Joyce Hooley Gingrich
Next Week:
March 31
Vespers leader: Rev. Jeff Jones
Program: Do Animals Have Rights? Facilitator: Rev. Jeff Jones
Susan Steffe and Rebecca Bringle led a book discussion group of Welcoming the Unwelcome by Pema Chodron, the acclaimed American Buddhist nun who for years has been the principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. There were fourteen members who met biweekly for 5 meetings, and there was always a rich and lively discussion. The group is continuing with the focus on two more Buddhist authors as well as more of Pema Chodron’s writings. Most of the original members are continuing.