In order from top left to bottom right: Bending our way through Lent -- "We are afflicted but not crushed, bent over with burdens but not broken!" Faith and Uncertainty -- "Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your intellect, so that you may discern what is the will…
Communion Again — December 11, 2022
On Sunday, January 26, 2020, the children's story of the day was a favorite, "Old Jake's Skirts." The story of a bachelor farmer who finds a trunk full of women's skirts by the side of the road. It is the story of how these skirts of colorful calico bring him back to life. I concluded…
Kiddush
The Kiddush in the modern Jewish tradition is a blessing "sanctifying the Shabbat." I have experienced it also as the small meal after the Saturday prayer service is ended and before the worshippers go their ways to meals in their homes. Saturday morning Kiddush has always had the feel of a communion service to me…
Order of Worship — March 29, 2020
Welcome to worship! Here's the Login (Don't forget the password -- in your email) Waterbury Congregational Church At the White Meeting House March 29, 2020 Prelude Nocturne, Opus 9, No. 2 by Chopin Welcome Lighting the Candles Aubade by W. S. DiPiero Good morning to what’s left and what has gone. No more of my…
Litany for Sharing the Work of Justice
Children: On this last Sunday before Lent, we give up the idea that we have no voice. We refuse to believe that we are powerless, that we cannot make a difference in our churches, and neighborhoods, our country and our world. We give up the idea that our vision of a better tomorrow must wait…