Descriptions of Sunday Services
CANVASS SUNDAY: OUR RICH REWARDS
Rev. Jessica Purple Rodela and Members of the Congregation
Music: Spirit of Life Choir and Stephen Preece
Our rich past, present, and future are reflected in the journey and the vision of a collection of seekers.
WEIGHING WAYWARD WORDS
Rev. Jessica Purple Rodela
Music: Stephen Preece.
A self-professed “maladroit paronomasiac” explores the ethical principal of “Right Speech” from Buddhism’s Eightfold Path.
THE ATOMIC MOSQUITO OF 56 SPARKS STREET
Rev. Jessica Purple Rodela and Jessica Bayne
Music: Rosemarie Harris
Today we celebrate the story of Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, the Czech-born refugee who founded the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada in 1945. Lotta said: “The USC has always been an immensely practical agency and to us food is the number one requirement of man. We have focused on the need of food … teaching how to produce more and better food practically since the beginning of the USC.” Come be part of Lotta’s vision that “We are here for a function … that has been entrusted to us and this is to make the world more liveable and it lies in our hands and I am absolutely convinced that it can be done.”
WHEN IN ZEN, DO AS ZENDO
Rev. Jessica Purple Rodela
Music: Ben Bolt-Martin (cello) and Stephen Preece (piano).
While practicing the art of kyudo (Japanese archery) at New York’s Zen Mountain Monastery this summer, I dropped my arrow dozens of times. In picking it up, I learned about invitation, relationship, and persistence.