News from the Chalice Unitarian Univeralist Congregation in Escondido, CA
Each October, at our annual Beloved Dead service, I speak the names of our members who have died in the previous year. I keep a log of these names, so can tell you definitively that in the 12 years I have been at Chalice, 50 … read more.
As an act of self-love, I bought myself a copy of “All About Love: New Visions,” by bell hooks last year for Valentine’s Day. Of course, I did not get around to reading it until approaching this year’s Valentine’s Day. But I strongly believe that … read more.
As was announced to the congregation via email on January 25, member Alice Dodd has passed away.
There will be a viewing at the funeral home (California Funeral Alternatives, 1020 E. Pennsylvania Avenue, Escondido) on Friday, February 9th, from 4-7 p.m.
A Memorial Celebration of Life … read more.
Our focus for January is body gratitude. #bodygratitude #gratitudepractice #chaliceuuescondido
What does it mean for us to have a congregational focus for the month? It doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll have a worship service on the topic, though that might happen sometimes. The idea for a “focus” … read more.
Happy New Year!
I smile as I look forward to all the happenings at Chalice. Here’s some updates from the Board as we start this new year:
You may recall that this year we are conducting a scheduled evaluation of our minister. The task force continues to … read more.
As was announced to the congregation via email on May 20, member Bruce Campbell has passed away.
A Memorial Celebration of Life service will be held at Chalice on Saturday, January 6th, at 2 p.m. in the Chalice chapel.
The family requests that everyone attending the service … read more.
The following is Rev. Sharon Wylie’s homily for the “Chalice Soup and Founders Say” service on November 19, 2023. You can watch the full service on Chalice’s YouTube channel.
Earlier this year, in the spring, the surgeon general declared that there’s an epidemic of loneliness, a … read more.
At our monthly Elders Lunch (held on zoom the second Friday each month from 12 noon to 1 p.m.), Rev. Sharon shares a reading from the book In Later Years: Finding Meaning and Spirit in Aging by Bruce T. Marshall, a Unitarian Universalist minister. The following are … read more.
The following are excerpts from Rev. Sharon Wylie’s sermon “Lessons from My Depression” offered on October 22, 2023. You can watch the full sermon on Chalice’s YouTube channel.
As many of you have heard me speak about many times, I worked as a hospital chaplain during … read more.
I know a disabled young person in my life who I take to a monthly young person dance party because disabled or not, no one wants to go to a dance with their Mom. This dance party is so fun, and one of the great … read more.
