Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide sacramental services and education in a climate of openness and inclusiveness where all are welcome and empowered, and to engage in charitable undertakings for the common good. Our community is one of equals, encountering and engaging the world in which we live through our words and works.

May today there be peace within.
May you trust in God that you are exactly
where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts you have received,
and pass on the love that has been given you.
May you be content knowing that you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. Amen.
— St. Therese of Lisieux

What Is Your New Year’s Resolution?
Looking back on our own individual and communal decisions and deeds in 2011, and then forward to our new chances for making things “right” in 2012, is what New Year resolutions are all about. Often these are half-hearted attempts at attaining greater self-importance rather than seriously discerning projects for gaining deeper self-awareness. But sometimes, they are very real epiphanies. Providential for Christians, that we celebrate Epiphany as the calendar year is turning over. Nothing remains exactly as it was, and immovable certainty has no place in living. So where do we see ourselves as we round another year and begin – yet again – our individual and collective epiphanies?

THERESE of Divine Peace Inclusive Community
Liturgies on SATURDAY at
5 o’clock pm.
First Unitarian Church
5007 Waterman Blvd. at Kingshighway
St. Louis, MO 63108
In the HOPE CHAPEL at the rear (alley) of the building
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Pastored by Roman Catholic Womenpriests:

Rev. Rose Marie (Ree) Hudson
636-208-5598
reehud@sbcglobal.net

Rev. Elsie Hainz McGrath
314-477-6089
elsiemc@sbcglobal.net

Rev. Marybeth McBryan
314-277-3212
mbmcbpriest@yahoo.com

Beginning Again

Reflections As We Move Into Epiphany 2012

Pearl S. Buck once wrote: “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” Hindsight speaks to the truth of that incredible insight, obvious in many of the world-stage events of 2011 and prior which led the peoples of the Earth to escalating violence and poverty and misplaced myopic egotism and power plays....

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