The video recording at the top of this page captures the complete service. The service begins at the mark of the recording.
The audio recording below the video clip is an abbreviated version of the service. It includes the Meditation, Message, and Featured Song, and will be posted after editing.
This Sunday is Father’s Day, a day for reflecting on the meaning and mystery of Sacred Fatherhood. Like motherhood, the experiences of fatherhood are as varied as the people who live them. These experiences are shaped by love, joy, longing, gratitude, absence, complexity, and everything in between. For some, fatherhood is a source of deep blessing. While for others, it carries tenderness, grief, or unresolved regrets. Others who lack children of their own, experience fathering through mentorship, offering protection, guidance, generosity, and steadfast presence to children in their care.
In recognition of Father’s Day, and the wide landscape of experience it represents, — its gifts, its wounds, its hopes—we begin to see a few simple, timeless, universal expressions of Sacred Fatherhood emerge. Expressions like strength that does not dominate but protects; wisdom that does not control but guides; love that does not demand but encourages; presence that does not overshadow but supports. These qualities can anchor and ground us, inviting us into deeper relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with the Sacred.
Join Reverend James Kress this Sunday for a Father’s Day message that offers a few simple, timeless, and universal expressions of Sacred Fatherhood that can anchor and ground us in love.
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, and whatever Father’s Day evokes in you, you are warmly welcomed to join us.
Our music ensemble features Mark Wilson and Julie Croteau. They will be accompanied by Rita Huber on piano, Scott MacPhee on bass, and R Christensen on drums.
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