Upcoming Worship Services
at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton
Please join us for one of our Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. The service is also live streamed on Zoom.
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September 06 at 10:30 AM ET |
Where the Blessed Waters Meet (Water Communion Sunday), with Rev. Nicole Jacobson |
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We often think of community as a place where we blend all our differences away. This Sunday, as we celebrate our annual Water Communion, we will look to the spectacular border where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea. Together, we will explore how a true covenant requires both deep connection and sacred boundaries. Come discover how we can stand side-by-side, honoring what we share while fiercely respecting the unique containers of our individual lives. About Water Communion 🫗⛲A water ceremony held once a year, at the beginning of the new church year (September). Members bring to the service a small amount of water from a place that is special to them. During the appointed time in the service, people one by one pour their water together into a large bowl. As the water is added, the person who brought it tells why this water is special to them. The combined water is symbolic of our shared faith coming from many different sources. It is blessed by the congregation, and later boiled to be used as the congregation’s “holy water” in child dedication ceremonies and similar events. |
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September 13 at 10:30 AM ET |
Woman of the Universalist Movement, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson |
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What’s Love Got to Do With it? Woman of the Unitarian and Universalist Movement. We continue our series that explores the roots of love within our Unitarian Universalist ancestry. As we begin to deeply engage the UUA’s Common Read, Love at the Center, we look back at the women of the Unitarian and Universalist movements. Join us as we reflect on the lives of Olympia Brown and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Women who, in a time dominated by men, demanded that the Unitarians and Universalists of their time, practice love in action through equality and justice. These women were deeply passionate and strong, risking everything to preach that all people deserved to be placed at love’s center. |
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September 20 at 10:30 AM ET |
At-One-Ment, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson |
| As we reach the close of the High Holy Days, we move into the most holy tradition of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in Judaism. Yom Kippur is about seeking forgiveness from those we may have harmed and reconciling oneself back to the Holy. For Unitarian Universalists, we seek the work of atonement through repentance and repair, an ongoing practice of healing severed relationships to achieve wholeness and harmony with oneself, others, and the Earth. | |
September 27 at 10:30 AM ET |
Delight: The Gospel According to Love Island, with Ron Roth Jr. |
| Most of us are waging some quiet war we’d never admit from the outside. On September 27, “Delight: The Gospel According to Love Island” asks what it costs to mistake our own certainty for higher ground, and what might happen if we let love, rather than judgment, decide how we sit beside the people we love. Come find out what one of the world’s guiltiest pleasures has to teach us about coming back to the couch, and to each other. | |
October 04 at 10:30 AM ET |
Blessing of the Animals, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson |
| Don’t animals teach us about blessing, about joy? Each is satisfied with just a little: fresh water, healthy food, and enough room to nest or den. Many Unitarian Universalist congregations like ours, people sometimes come together to bless the animals. This tradition comes from our Catholic friends. A blessing shows how we appreciate the animals in our lives. These might be the pets in our families. It can also be animals we think are beautiful to look at or nice to pet on a farm, or animals that give us wool for clothes, pull plows on farms, and even give us their bodies for our food. 🐈🐈⬛🐩🐕🐇🐦🦎🐢🐍 |
UUnique Traditions and Holidays
Click here to learn about the traditions and holidays that many Universalist congregations celebrate that are unique to our faith, such as the Water Communion and the Flower Communion — ceremonies that celebrate Unitarian Universalism and the importance of each individual’s unique contributions to that community.