What’s Happening: The First Parish Blog
“By My Side” – Easter Sunday, April 9th, 2023
Easter–“By My Side” This passage comes to us from Karen Armstrong, a former nun whose departure from her convent in the 1960’s led her on a spiritual and religious journey around the world that has yielded more than 20 books, including the bestselling “A History of...
Musically Speaking – April 14th, 2023
Resistance Through Music This topic makes me excited looking backward, looking at now, and going forward. Social movements and resistance have always been propelled with music. Think of spirituals created and sung by the enslaved people on plantations….their songs...
2023 Annual Meeting Warrant
The First Parish of Watertown, Unitarian Universalist Warrant for 392nd Annual Meeting To: Michael Collins, Clerk of the First Parish of Watertown, Greetings: You are hereby requested to notify and warn the legal members of the First Parish of Watertown to meet in the...
Check it before you chuck it – Rummage Sale Donations Wanted!
The First Parish Rummage Sale on 5/6 needs your Quality Donations! Do you have: books, records, DVDs, clean children's clothes (infant- 3 years), kitchen and household items, camping equipment, small electronics/ appliances (working order), arts & crafts, tools,...
Memorial Wall Summer Engraving
Names of deceased First Parish members, friends, and those loved by them can be added to the Memorial Wall each summer. Applications for engravings as well as additional information can be found on the website, and there are copies of the form in the folder on the...
The View From Here – April 7th, 2023
Happy spring church family! I pray you are well and that your spirits are intact. You are always on my mind and in my heart. I like thinking about the spirit of seasons too. Personally, I need spring’s spirit, with its promise of regeneration, new life and light,...
“The Bold and the Brave” – March 26, 2023
READING: Trust, by Thomas R. Smith It’s like so many other things in life to which you must say no or yes. So you take your car to the new mechanic. Sometimes the best thing to do is trust. The package left with the disreputable-looking clerk, the check gulped by the...
“Good Mourning” – March 19, 2023
Reading: “Otherwise,” by Jane Kenyon I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At...
Save the date for the 392nd FPW Annual Meeting!
Sunday, April 23, shortly following the Sunday service the 392nd FPW Annual meeting will be held. Yes, our history continues with you as an essential part it! The meeting will be held in person in the sanctuary, and there will be a zoom option that will have on line...
Sunday Reflection – Katherine Calabro – March 12th, 2023
What does FPW mean to me? Well, that question is going to require a walk down memory lane, because FPW has meant so much to me and my family over the years, and like all things, has evolved a great deal. So, the year was 2008, Matt and I had moved to the Boston area...