The Twelve Days of Commission conclude today in the Ascension of Jesus. This feast day is one of the Four Great Thursdays of AUR, the other three being Garden Thursday, Declaration Thursday, and Harvest Thursday. Ascension commemorates the return of Jesus to Heaven between two angels. This imagery places a final seal on the importance [...]
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Reform Unitarian Symbols – The Chalice
Posted in holidays, teachings, Thursday worship, tagged chalice, christ, christian, da vinci code, dan brown, easter, gethsemane, jesus, lent, unitarian on 4 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During this Lenten season leading up to Garden Thursday, let’s discuss one of our key symbols in Unitarian Reform: the chalice. Now, the flaming chalice is known as a symbolism of post-Christian “Unitarianism” (absent the Unitarian meaning) with origins in the oil-burning lamps in Greek and Roman ritual. For AUR, however, the chalice is the [...]
Andrew, Advent, and Annunciation
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged advent, annunciation, christ, christian, christianity, christmas, creche, disciple, jesus, nativity scene, st. andrew, unitarian, unitarianism on 29 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reform celebrates the transition from November to December with the feast of St. Andrew on November 30th (honoring the first disciple of Jesus) and Advent/Annunciation on December 1st. This differs significantly from other Christian traditions, which celebrate Advent four Sundays before Christmas, and celebrate the Annunciation (the day on which Mary was told by [...]
Ascension Thursday
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged ark of the covenant, ascension, book of numbers, christ, christianity, isaiah, jesus, messiah, moses maimonides, musa bin maimon, word of god on 21 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Twelve Days of Commission conclude today in the Ascension of Jesus. This feast day is one of the Four Great Thursdays of AUR, the other three being Garden Thursday, Declaration Thursday, and Thanksgiving Thursday. Ascension commemorates the return of Jesus to Heaven between two angels. This imagery confirms the centrality of reconciled, complementary virtues [...]
There is no Plan C – Conquering False Hope with Faith
Posted in teachings, Virtues, tagged christ, epistle to the romans, faith, faith healing, hope, jesus, letter to the romans, logos, prayer healing, rationalism, son of god, st. paul, virtue on 30 April 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is Loyal Thursday, and during these 12 Days of Trust — celebrating the virtue of Faith — it is important to remember the fallibility of Hope. Faith is the complement of Hope, and its antidote when Hope becomes false: Faith, rather than meaning credulous obedience to dogmatic authority, is simply what we modern Americans would call “stick-to-it-iveness”: [...]
