Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Resurrection is a community practice! Come celebrate Easter at Florence Congregational Church. Featuring dancers, brass, organ, guitar, vocalists, hope, community, and you.

Inclusive, all-ages service!

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

DEEPENING INTO SPIRIT AND THE ENERGIES OF THE SPRING EQUINOX THROUGH CREATION, COMMUNITY, AND RITUAL, WITH M RUDDER

As we approach the Spring Equinox, we’ll gather as a small community to prepare to intimately engage with the energies of this annual turning. Through individual reflection, earth-based readings, meditation and visualizations, listening circles, creativity, and ritual, we will immerse ourselves in an exploration of our relationship with Spirit/God/the Divine, the natural world, and the mid-point of awakening into longer days and shorter nights. All beliefs and non-beliefs are warmly welcomed.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

FACES OF MEDICINE is a documentary project celebrating the paths of Black female physicians both throughout the United States and in Massachusetts specifically.

In sharing these diverse experiences, the filmmakers' hope is that any young Black or brown woman can find herself in one of the stories, and feel empowered to pursue medicine if it is her passion. Everyone who watches will leave with a better understanding of what their next doctor may have experienced along their journey.

Post-screening panel discussion featuring: Khama Ennis, MD, Director and Executive Producer. Audience members will be invited to share their reactions and ask questions.

This event takes place on the cusp of All Saints/All Souls, Halloween and Samhain when spiritual energy shimmers powerfully. It is invitation, portal, encounter, veneration, hospitality, medicine, remembrance. It is the gift of creative process and sacred space, to call forth deeper stories that want and need to be told. These stories will unfold through a guided process of creating a vintage found object personal altar or shrine, making this time spiritual practice in contemplative reflection, prayer, play and creative imagination.

Deep Listening, the radically inclusive practice developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth. This workshop is led by longtime Oliveros collaborator Ben Richter in cooperation with Ghost Ensemble and the Center for Deep Listening.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

This workshop is for beginning and experienced movers alike, as well as for any individual seeking a nurturing and healing experience of body, mind, emotion and spirit.  Conscious breathing, gentle stretches, self-massage, and embodied self-expression are some of the mediums in our journey. Together will work with elements of yoga, qigong, and creative movement to uncovers our authentic hearts and soul purposes in a supportive community atmosphere,   This experience also includes original music by John!

You are invited to gather with us for Christmas Eve! We're trying an earlier time, at 5pm, for a quiet, intimate service with musical guests TBA. More details to follow, but the concept is: a space to gather with neighbors and friends to experience the deep, world-changing hope of the birth of the Messiah. Less of a spectator sport, more interactive. Less concert hall, more connection. Young people and short attention spans especially welcome! If you think you can't bring your family to church, consider this your spot! And don't worry: we'll still have candlelight and Silent Night!

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Folksongs! Brass band! Mozart! Fiddle and banjo! Local 18th century harmony singing! Community music and history with a dose of humor, and a meal afterwards to boot.

The ‘Antique Concerte on Pyne Street” announced on a crumpled 1873 playbill found during renovation of the Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity posed a sonic and historical mystery. What on earth WAS this?

heART Journaling offers a nurturing, supportive and collective art journaling experience. Do you long to slow down, reflect and listen deeply to your own needs? Have you tried to do this on your own but wind up prioritizing other life demands? Do you feel alone in your life struggles and long for a space to show up just as you are? Join this nurturing and supportive session to explore the wisdom of your own inner landscape and the power of art journaling to help you process life.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Did you know meditation isn't only an Eastern or Buddhist spiritual practice? There are rich traditions of contemplative spirituality within Western Christianity too, although they have been somewhat hidden from most regular churchgoers. The Protestant Reformation further marginalized these practices. Now is your chance to learn a profound, accessible method of deepening your practice of prayer or meditation. Centering Prayer is an ancient spiritual practice mainly in western monastic settings. In the 1970’s it was renewed and made available to the public by the Trappist Father Thomas Keating and his colleagues.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom. We will be joined by Rev. Dr. Ashley Cleere, Executive Director of the NACCC.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.

Sermon by Rev. Dr Marisa Egerstrom.