Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton - UUFBR

10/28/2026

10/28/2026

💀 Día de los Mu***os
November 1st, 2026 at 10;30 AM ET
Please make sure to bring your loved one’s photo and/or keepsake to the service.

During coffee hour, we would love you to bring and share any snacks or foods that you loved one enjoyed. Please drop these off in the kitchen before the service.

Thank you!

10/27/2026

☕ Continue the coffee hour conversation online! Like and comment on, or share these posts with a thoughtful response.
This week (October 25, 2026) we asked:
What "Peace" of Mind did you get during the Zombie Walk? How will you manifest JPEGIT🫶 (justice, plurality, equity, generosity, interdependence, transformation, love) this week?

10/27/2026

NOVEMBER 2026 SCHEDULE OF SUNDAY SERVICES

📆 November 01 at 10:30 AM ET
Soul Sunday: A Service of Reflection, Release, and Renewal, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson

As the light begins to slowly fade away to darker nights, many cultures and religions explore what it means to honor those who have departed from us. Together, we will honor our loved ones through our own ritual of the remembrance wreath, and we will share with one another photos that have been placed with care on our Ofrenda as we speak the names of our loved ones aloud to the congregation. During this space, we will also work to release the grief that we may be holding. Through this shared release, we open our hearts to renewal, remembering and carrying forward the profound gifts of those who have given us so much.

📆 November 08 at 10:30 AM ET
Love at the Center Sermon Series: The Long Welcome, with Ron Roth Jr.

Our congregation says it every week: love is the doctrine of this faith. This Sunday, November 8th, as we continue the Love at the Center series, Ron Roth Jr. traces how Unitarian Universalists have lived that line for nearly seventy years, from the first same-sex weddings in the 1950s to the day we placed love at the center of our shared values in 2024. It is the story of our own covenant, kept out loud. All are welcome.

📆 November 15 at 10:30 AM ET
Dream a Little Dream: A Founder’s Vision For the Future, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson

On this Founders’ Day, we don’t just celebrate our history; we recommit to our collective future. In this week’s message, “Dream a little Dream: A Founder’s Vision For the Future,” we will examine what it means to sustain a visionary, covenantal legacy. To be a visionary requires courage, but keeping a vision alive requires the dedication of the entire community. Let’s gather to honor those who came before us by actively building a world of justice, love, and reason that will endure for our descendants.

📆 November 22 at 10:30 AM ET
The Thanksgiving Crux, with Rev. Nicole Jacobson

Thanksgiving invites us into a time of gratitude, community, and reflection. However, it also brings its own crux: the unsavory truth of its roots and the commodification of our gratitude. This Bread Communion Sunday, on November 22nd, we reflect on how we can balance a season of thankfulness with truth, humility, and a new way forward.

📆 November 29 at 10:30 AM ET
🎄 W.F.B.R. Holiday Hymn Sing: Sing Out the Old, Sing In the New! with Erich Landstrom

Live from WFBR (Double-U.F.B.R.), the station broadcasting a message welcoming all and promoting truth, spirituality, love, inclusion, compassion and justice!
Come join us in song, or tune in by Zoom for our Christmas caroling request hour—a soulful, spirited broadcast where voices from our beloved community request and share favorite seasonal songs from our hymnals. We will sing winner bids as auctioned at GiveButter.com/NoGrinch2026 . Marina Machado will be on piano and welcomes musicians to bring their instrument and play along. Stay to help “deck the halls” of the Cleary Sanctuary as we decorate the fellowship for December.

10/26/2026

🧟 The Walking Fed 3: All You Can Eat 🧠
A Tarot Card Reading for Shared Values of Unitarian Universalism
lead by Erich Landstrom.
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Be honest. You’re nervous right now. You should be.

Mixed into your order of service, your Worship Associate has slipped in some unnerving images, of tarot cards and an exposed brain. And now he’s standing up to talk about zombies.

Relax. Breathe in… and out.

You need to relax because it’s not real. It’s make-believe. I mean, yes, zombies exist, and tarot reading is witchcraft. That’s real. But it’s real in the same way as making a wish before blowing out your birthday candles.

Science doesn't ask us to believe something because it sounds brilliant. It asks what evidence supports it, how we can test it, and what would prove us wrong.

The danger isn't having beliefs. It's confusing our beliefs with Reality itself. Once an opinion becomes part of our identity, we may defend it long after the evidence has moved on. That's our inner zombie: a habit of thought we've practiced so often that it reacts before we reflect.

This week, for Halloween, we're exploring the shared values of Unitarian Universalism through a new method: tarot.

The cards don't have to tell us what will happen. They can help us ask what we're doing, why we're doing it, and what we want to change.

Thus when I tell you tarot is witchcraft, and witchcraft is real, I'm
not claiming the cards can predict the future. I’m saying witchcraft is spicy psychology.

As we explore each card, contemplate what it means to you.

Make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is indifference may we bring justice.
Where there is homogeneity may we bring pluralism.
Where there is selfishness may we bring equity.
Where there is greed may we bring generosity.
Where there is isolation may we bring interdependence.
Where there is stagnation may we bring transformation.
And where there is hatred may we bring love.

When the music starts, stand up and step into the aisle taking your brain with you. Find someone to exchange your tarot card and brains with. Keep exchanging brains until the music stops.

The cards can't make you just. The prayer can't make you generous.
No spell can make you transform.

Or can it?

Maybe you make it meaningful by what you do with it.

But belief has its limits. If we refuse to question what we believe, belief stops helping us understand reality and starts replacing it. We stop listening to feedback. We filter out evidence that contradicts us. We stop changing our minds. We’d become zombies for real.

So I ask you: Are you a zombie? Or are you a witch?

Believe that you can do good deeds. Great deeds, in truth! And when we've made this world a little better place, that is magical.

Conceive it? Check. Believe it? Check. Achieve it? Yes, that's our work. We don't have to predict the future. We have to make it.

May we be instruments of peace, with love at the center of everything we do. Amen, Ashe, and Blessed Be.
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10/26/2026

Title: Suite gothique, Op. 25, Introduction excerpt
Composer: Léon Boëllmann
Organist: Marina Machado
Performed Sunday, October 25, 2026 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton, FL

Suite gothique, Op. 25 is a suite for organ composed by Léon Boëllmann in 1895 for the consecration of the Ghys organ at Notre-Dame in Dijon, France.

The first movement (Introduction - Choral) is in C minor and is made up of harmonized choral phrases that are first played in block chords on the great and pedals, and then repeated, piano, on the Swell.
We hope you enjoy the musical offerings played during the offertory. The taking of an offering—which some Unitarian Universalist congregations call "Sharing in Stewardship"—is a time to lift up the collective responsibility toward the common good. Since December of 2006, the UU Fellowship of Boca Raton (UUFBR) has been sharing our Sunday Collection Plate with the wider community in a Share-The-Plate program. Half of each collection helps to pay the bills at , and the other half goes to the Share-the-Plate Fund. When the Fund reaches $1000, that $1000 is given to the selected organization. All recipients of Share-The-Plate are non-profits suggested by UUFBR members; often these are active participants with the particular organization. https://donorbox.org/support-uufbr

10/25/2026

Each week, we take an offering that we share with organizations that strengthen our larger community, and the other half of today’s collection stays here to strengthen our Fellowship.

This week we share our plate with Hispanic Human Resources Center (HHRC), the longest Hispanic serving nonprofit in Palm Beach County. Established in 1977, HHRC mission is to educate and empower low-income families in Palm Beach County in order to strengthen families to not only survive life's daily struggle but to thrive by providing social and educational services in a safe environment, with the resources, support, and services.

Let us give with open hearts. donorbox.org/support-uufbr