Sermons are by 1970-2002 Parish Minister Richard Gilbert unless otherwise noted.
| The Water Table of Our Common Humanity |
Meditation: Holy Water |
September 9, 2001
Coming Home Like Rivers
To The Sea Sunday |
| Terrorist Tragedy: What Should We Do? |
Reading: There Must Be Religious Witness
Meditation: Show an Affirming Flame |
September 16, 2001 |
| On Turning 65: What, Me Retire? The Meanings of
Transition |
Meditation: In The Midst Of A Broken World |
September 23, 2001 |
| We Cannot Be Religious in General |
Meditation: A Still Center Nothing Can Disturb |
September 30, 2001
Bring a Friend Sunday |
The Journey is Home
by 2001-02 Ministerial Intern Joellynn Monahan |
October 7, 2001 |
| Confessions of an Unrepentant Liberal |
Reading: Ten Commandments For Social Action
Meditation: The Divine Is In The Details |
October 14, 2001
Social Responsibility Sunday |
| In the Aftermath: Where In the World Are We? |
Reading: Participatory Theater
Meditation: Nature's Way |
October 21, 2001
United Nations Sunday |
| Sacred Chaos - On Being a Member of the Cosmos |
Reading: My Easy God Is Gone
Meditation: And No One Even Clapped |
October 28, 2001 |
| When Life Is a Broken Arc |
Reading: Not A Curse, But A Gift
Meditation: What More Can We Ask?
Closing words: Emerge Into The Light Again |
November 11, 2001 |
| People Are Not Cost Effective: Thanksgiving In a
Different Key |
Meditation: Gifts Of Necessity And Of Choice |
November 18, 2001
UUSC Sunday |
| I Hope He'll Be Remembered |
Meditation: Meditation For A Dark Day |
December 2, 2001 |
Joys, Sorrows, Fun and Frustrations
by Education Minister Helena Chapin |
December 9, 2001 |
| Surprised By Joy In a Troubled Time |
Meditation: Joy Shall Rise In The Morning |
December 23, 2001 |
| The Fragile Presence |
Meditation: In The Holy Quiet Of Christmas Eve |
December 24, 2001
Christmas Eve Candlelight Services |
| Life's Great "What Ifs?" - Living Without Regret! |
Meditation: Now Is The Time To Pause |
January 6, 2002
Service Of the Living Tradition |
| Learning to Be White: Race, Class And Religion |
Meditation: The Nourishing Dark |
January 13, 2002
Martin Luther King Sunday |
| Ordinary Courage |
January 27, 2002 |
| BSA and UUA: Discrimination in a Uniform |
Meditation: Buffeted By Hard Winds |
February 3, 2002 |
As Wise As an OWL: Religion And Human Sexuality Education
dialog sermon with Dick Gilbert and Helena Chapin |
Meditation: We Are, Therefore, We Love |
February 10, 2002
Valentine's Sunday |
| On Being Religiously Musical: The Rededication Of
Our Organ |
Call to Celebration: Make a Joyful Noise
Reading: To Honor Extravagance
Meditation: Let There Be Music
Words of Aspiration: A new Song, A New Harmony |
February 17, 2002 |
| The Age of Overwhelming |
Meditation: Be Here Now |
February 24, 2002 |
| "Rochester's Alert Conscience and Hospitable Roof" |
Meditation: Gentle Words |
March 3, 2002
Canvass Sunday |
Race Relations and the Larger Church
presented by our Community Against Racism Task Force |
March 10, 2002 |
| On Being Gloriously Useless |
Meditation: The Still Small Voice Of Calm |
March 17, 2002 |
| We're All "Temps" - Reflections on Being a Guest
of Existence |
Meditation: Life and Death, Time and the Space Between the Stars |
March 24, 2002 |
| A Tomb Is No Place to Stay Easter Is About Joy |
Meditation: The Garden of Gladness |
March 31, 2002
Easter Sunday |
| Justice Will Be Served for Des(s)ert |
Meditation: The Quickened Pulse Of Life |
April 7, 2002
UUSC Sunday |
| Chimes of Care: What Do We Do When There's Nothing
to Do? |
Meditation: We Are the Walking Wounded and the Survivors |
April 14, 2002 |
| Music as Metaphor for Existence |
Meditation: Thanks Be For These |
May 12, 2002
Music Sunday |
| What's It All About, Richard? |
May 26, 2002
Animal Blessing Sunday |
| The Last Hurrah: The Past As Prologue |
Meditation: Thanks Be For These |
June 9, 2002 |
