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UUFSMA Zoom Service begins Sunday at 10:30am. Central Time.
Participants should sign on at 10:00am. Central Time.
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Meeting ID: 414 604 040 Passcode: 294513.
If you have any sign-on difficulties, please contact
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Participants
Victoria Collier and Ben-Zion Ptashnik, Guest Speakers
Cathy Cánepa, Coordinator
Jurgen Ahlers, Service Leader
Liz Stone, Pianist
Chris Chase, Zoom Host
Diego Vargas, Lead Audio/Visual Technician
Miguel Angel Espinosa, Audio/Visual Technician
Diana Amaya, Administrator/Back-up Technician
Joseph Plummer, Video Editor & Communications
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Ben-Zion Ptashnik and Victoria Collier will present the story of the Tikkun Eco Center, a local permaculture project and community farm.
Tikkun Eco Center promotes replicable solutions to climate change and ecological crises on three hectares dedicated to permaculture with organic gardens and orchards, reforestation, solar and wind energy, adobe construction, fish and chicken farming, composting, and water harvesting systems.
An entrepreneur, human rights activist, philanthropist, and environmental leader, Ben-Zion Ptashnik retired as a state senator from Vermont in 2001 to pioneer solar and wind energy and mitigate the climate crisis in Mexico.
A writer, artist and grower, in the early 2000s, Victoria Collier co-founded and directed Tierra Lucero, a non-profit organization located on a permaculture demonstration site designed by Bill Mollison in Taos, New Mexico. She oversees the development of farm and community outreach programs at Tikkun Eco Center.
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Brought by Hilary Toyryla, a member of our UU women’s group, Mis Hermanas. Today’s flowers will be shared after the service with someone selected by our Care Team.
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To learn how to become a UUFSMA member, please visit
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Singing Bowl
Prelude "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
Section 1 by Richard Strauss.
Welcome & Announcements
Opening Words / Chalice Lighting
Welcome Hymn #298 "Wake Now My Senses"
Words: Thomas J.S. Mikelson; Music: Traditional Irish Melody,
harmony by Carlton R. Young
Covenant
We respect the interdependent web of life and work for a just and peaceful world. We encourage the search for truth and meaning, strive for compassion in our relationships and seek values that will benefit our lives and the lives of others. This is our covenant.
Respetamos todos los estilos de vida dentro de su red interdependiente y trabajamos por un mundo justo y pacifico. Alentamos la búsqueda de la verdad y la comprensión total. Nos esforzamos por mantener compasión en nuestras relaciones y buscamos valores que beneficien nuestras vidas y las vidas de los demás. Este es nuestro convenio.
Joys and Concerns
Musical Meditation "Times and Seasons"
From the school play "Johnny Appleseed"
Offering Introduction
Offering Music "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
Section 2 by Richard Strauss
Responsive Reading "Prayers of the People"
From the U.N. Environmental Sabbath Service, Earth Day 1990
Message "Permaculture for Climate Change Resilience in San Miguel"
Victoria Collier and Ben-Zion Ptashnik
Closing Hymn #163 "For the Earth Forever Turning"
Words & Music: Kim Oler
Closing Words / Extinguishing the Chalice
Postlude "The Beautiful Blue Danube"
Section 3 by Richard Strauss
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“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,” William Shakespeare wrote in
Henry VI. And during this weekend’s UUFSMA Sunday Service, Guest Speaker Judy Rosenthal and the San Miguel Shakespeare Readers will present dramatic readings that reveal the Bard’s wisdom for our world today and his relevance to moments of spiritual reflection.
Celebrating the genius of Elizabethan literature for nearly 50 years in San Miguel, the Shakespeare Readers have a long tradition of exploring his theatrical chronicles from the late 16th and early 17th centuries for insights that resonate with human behavior in modern times. A UUFSMA member and current leader of the literary group, Rosenthal is a former professor of English literature at California’s Fresno State University.
“When I began to teach in Fresno, I had often heard about the so-called universality of the plays of Shakespeare, but I felt skeptical,” she recalls. “How could the drama of a 17th-century English playwright appeal to all readers?”
Exploring that issue as a scholar, she developed her appreciation of Shakespeare as a man of his times who wrote about the impact of personal and political power on human behavior and turned his insights into dramatic personas speaking to the ages. With his awareness of the boundaries of gender, he courted controversy with characters who entertained audiences by stretching the rules of their traditional roles.
In conceiving this entertaining service for the Fellowship, perhaps Rosenthal remembered this line from the Bard, “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven.”
Three other members of the San Miguel Shakespeare Readers, Gene Harvey, Arlena Lawrence, and John Generoux will join Rosenthal in this presentation of excerpts from
MacBeth and
Twelfth Night. Classical Guitarist Miguel Ángel Omaña, who received his training at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, will perform music from Shakespeare’s time.
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Tom’s Coffee Hour Discussion, Tuesdays (9:30am)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/442374895?pwd=NHljVm1LbHQydVBIUUkyWkIybVNHUT09
Meeting ID: 442 374 895
Passcode: 724450
Tuesday Discussion Group - July 5, 2022 (11:00am)
The Tuesday Zoom discussion group is led by Lou Marines.
Topic: What makes you feel safe and secure?
Are we really safe anywhere? What external elements contribute to your safety? Is there a spiritual component to your sense of security? What makes you feel unsafe? Do news events elsewhere even affect your sense of security? Does the holding of prejudices alter your feelings of security?
Friday Buddhist Group, Sangha of the Heart (10:00am)
Regular participation is encouraged or drop-in when you want. Please email Joan at joanwolf@umich.edu if you would like to be added to the Sangha of the Heart email list and receive the Zoom link in a weekly reminder.
Upcoming Activities:
Men’s Saturday Breakfast at 9:30 on Saturday, July 2, at Cafe Amapola
(Calle del Dr. Ignacio Hernández Macías #117, Zona Centro.)
The cafe is at the curve leading from Zacateros, just above Codo.
It will end no later than 11am.
For information: epgoodwin@hotmail.com.
Circle Cena - Monday, Agust 1, 2022
In small groups in open space at private homes.
Reserve with Eleanor Goodwin.
Please provide proof of vaccinations to Diana Amaya, info.uufsma@gmail.com.
For information: epgoodwin@hotmail.com.
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