The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winona (UUFW)
Services Sunday 10 am For audios of previous services, click HERE
Guild Hall of Wesley United Methodist Church
114 W. Broadway, Winona, Minnesota
November 24
This year, we are having a Gratitude Meal rather than a Thanksgiving celebration.
For indigenous communities, any celebration of colonization can be very painful, and
while there may have been moments of cooperation between colonizers and
indigenous peoples, those were not moments of cooperation freely occurring
between groups of equally powerful, self-determining peoples, and could therefore
not have been fully consensual. For this reason, we will keep alive the spirit of
cooperation, thankfulness, and bounty associated with the harvest season in many
cultures by celebrating a Gratitude Meal. Please bring a dish to share and your own
place settings. Water, coffee, and milk will be provided.
There is no service at Wesley on December 1.
We will meet on December 8th at our normally scheduled time (10:00). We will begin our second theme of the year: What is Spirituality? / Expressing our Hearts through the Arts. Kate Bausch, a lay affiliate with the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA) will speak to us. You can read about Kate’s artistic and heartfelt response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine in this short article from a FSPA publication.
“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.” — Laozi
“Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.” — Confucius
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one’s own self. This, in brief, is the rule of dharma”. — Brihaspati, Mahabharata
“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: This is the entire Torah, the rest is explanation.” Rabbi Hillel
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” —Matthew 22:39
“Repel (Evil) with what is better.” Quran 41:34
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. — Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī