Leicester First Congregational Church

Month: March 2011

  • Happy St Patrick’s Day

     

    Leprechauns showed up at coffee hour, Sunday March 13, 2011 in the shape of Judy and Lenny Ivel.  They put on a

    Judy & Lenny Ivel – St Patrick's Day Coffee Hour

    delicious spread, which included Swedish bread disguised as Irish for the day.  Have a Happy St Patrick’s Day.

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  • Baptism of Ethan Vance Rodriquez

    Baptism of Ethan-son of Peter & Heather Rodriquez – – – – March 13, 2011

    Ethan is the son of Heather (Sutter) and Peter Rodriquez. Heather has been connected to the FCC since childhood and Ethan is the fourth of their children to be baptized here at the First Congregational Church. Many family and friends attended the ceremony. Ethan was so cute, after he was baptized he so wanted to put his hands in the water. Click here to see more pictures of the baptism, including Ethan swishing his hands in the baptismal water.

  • Book Study

    The Monday Night book club will be discussing the book “Finding Your Religion” by Scotty McLennen beginning on March 14 and continuing for about 4 weeks. If you would like to join this discussion group, please contact Rev Doreen Oughton (see contact information on this web site).

    Amazon.com Review
    Finding Your Religion is a guidebook for the perplexed–those who have lost faith in the religion of their youth and are not sure how to continue their spiritual lives. The book’s author, the Rev. Scotty McLennan, has plenty of experience with the perplexed; he is a Unitarian minister and the chaplain at Tufts University. (He has also inspired and entertained millions of people indirectly, as the model for the freewheeling character Reverend Scott Sloan in Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury.) McLennan has structured Finding Your Religion on a model of six stages of faith–Magic, Reality, Dependence, Interdependence, and Unity. The book describes each of these stages in detail, drawing on McLennan’s experience with students’ spiritual searches and on his own search (which led him, among other places, to Harvard Law School and to ashrams in the Far East). McLennan’s prose is clear and direct; he is very open to exploration, and very tough on laziness. “Pick a religious path and start walking,” he writes. “Even if it turns out not to be the right way later on, you won’t get anywhere spiritually without starting.” –Michael Joseph Gross –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

    For more information about the author, click here.

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  • ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE

    You are warmly invited to start the season of Lent in community at this service with ashes and Communion on March 9, 2011 at 7 Pm.