This year the congregation at First Parish of Sudbury launches a year-long effort to reduce its communal and individual footprint on the planet by exploring the religious, ethical, and moral imperatives that call humans to foster such things as ecological sustainability, conservation, and environmental justice.
The congregation inaugurated its efforts Sept. 24 during worship at First Parish of Sudbury.
The services begin at 10 a.m. and all are invited and welcome to attend.
In our Unitarian Universalist principles, he says, we affirm our respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. The goal of the year-long congregational project is to make choices and changes that will result in our treading more lightly on this planet.
In her sermon last week, Rev.
Katie Lee Crane began the initiative with a sermon titled Water, Water Everywhere. She discussed the ways humans have used, abused and misused this precious resource. Mindful that this is also the season of Jewish High Holy Days, Crane invited the congregation to reflect on the Jewish concepts of teshuvah (repentance) and tikkun olam (mending the world).
She alsi invited the congregation - both as a community and as individuals - to seek forgiveness for all the ways we have harmed our natural resources and commit ourselves to act in ways that will repair the damage, or, at least limit further damage.
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