UU Congregation at Shelter Rock Services

Humans seem to have an innate need for belonging. On Sunday, September 11, 2022, we talked about what it means to be mortal under a sky full of stars, and to find companionship and belonging throughout the days of our lives.

The television series “Stargate SG-1” popularized a device called the Quantum Mirror. Anyone who passes through it ends up in a parallel universe, one that's similar to, but not the same as, our own. Every election day acts as a Quantum Mirror. The entire nation passes through it and comes out into a different universe. What next?

Special Service of Remembrance, led jointly by UUCSR and the UU Congregation of Central Nassau in Garden City (UUCCN). Members of both congregations were invited to submit photos of each deceased loved onea to “lift up” in the Service.

On this day, as we remembered those no longer with us, we reflected upon rituals of mourning and celebrations of life from around the world.

On October 25, 2020, Service was led by UN Envoys Janet Bendowitz and Clara LaCorte, with Rev. Jaye Brooks, and special guest Bruce Knotts of the Unitarian Universalist Association at the UN (UU@UN). In recognition of United Nations Day, celebrated around the world on October 24, this Worship Service lifts up the work of the United Nations and its efforts to protect the planet Earth and its inhabitants from climate change.

With our Annual Thanksgiving Worship Service, we again celebrated this community. We brought together bread from our many individual families, traditions. We shared our bread and the stories surrounding our feasting. Our bread nourishes bodies and the stories about the bread feeds our souls. The sharing strengthens our community and forms our common table. While we were not able to eat bread together in the same room, we still shared our family’s bread. The Young People’s Choir sang and the Jazz Ensemble played.