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Join us on Sunday, Nov 30th, 2025, for a Calgary Unitarians' Service on Anticipation  in Panabaker at 10:30 am.

We hope to see you there! 

Gathering Music: Krishan

Welcome and Land Acknowledgement: Rev. Samaya

Opening Hymn No. 1024 Spirit Says Do (Traditional Spiritual): Krishan

Kindling the Chalice and Advent Candles: Rob 

Time for All Ages: Rachael

Sharing Our Light – Circles of Love (Jane Perry): Krishan

Offering – November 4 Others: Inn from the Cold: Rob

Offertory – Veni, Veni, Emmanuel (John K. Silman, Hantaus R. Todermann): Krishan

Joys and Sorrows: Rev. Samaya

Meditation: Rev. Samaya

Silence

Musical Interlude – My Heart Song (Ram Dass, John Pattern): Krishan

Anticipation I:  Rev. Samaya

Reading: We are Waiting (Rev. Leslie Takahashi): Rob 

Musical Interlude – Hymn No. 184 Be Ye Lamps: Krishan

Anticipation II: Rev. Samaya

Closing Hymn No. 1051 We Are … (Ysaye Barnwell): Krishan

Benediction: Rev. Samaya

Extinguishing the Chalice: Rob

Postlude – Beyond the Sea (Lasry/Lawrence): Krishan

Service Reader: Rob Weaver
Director of Religious Education: Rachael Smith
Music Director: Krishan Power
AV Operators: Christopher Fietz and Marcia Epstein
Usher(s): Jared Prysunka and Lynn Nugent
Aesthetics: Mary-Anna Louise
Welcome Table: Kathy Burniston
Coffee and Goodies: Kitchen Team
Artist in Residence: Chantal Chagnon
Administrator: Elyse Brazel
Minister: Rev. Samaya Oakley

Deck the Halls – Today!
Join us after the service to decorate the building for the holidays.

General Meeting – Sunday, Dec 7 at noon
All members welcome, in Panabaker. 

Christmas Potluck
Andrea will host Christmas Dinner and is seeking a co-host. If you'd like to help on Christmas Day, please contact Rev. Samaya.

Carols & Crafts Baking
Share your treats and help start a new holiday tradition! Let Rev. Samaya know if you can contribute.

Carols & Crafts Tickets
Stop by the table in Wickenden today to purchase your tickets for Carols & Crafts. Many thanks to Marsha for making this possible!

Co-op Cards – Deadline December 5 at 4 pm
Support the church at no extra cost: 5–6% from your Calgary Co-op gift card purchases comes back to our community.

CU Office Closed
December 24th through to January 4th inclusive.

Sunday, November 30th - Deck the Halls Everywhere from noon to approximately 2

Monday, December 1st - Facing Death with Life at 2 pm in Room 4

Monday, December 1st - Story Reading Circle at 8 pm online

Tuesday, December 2nd - Vespers at 7 pm online

Wednesday, December 3rd - An Evening with Mark Glickman at 7 pm in Wickenden

Thursday, December 4th - Community Dinner at 6 pm in Wickenden

Thursday, December 4th - Nous Ensemble at 6:45 pm in Panabaker

Thursday, December 4th - UUphonia at 7:30 pm in Panabaker

Saturday the 6th – Dismantling Racism within Ourselves at 10 am online

Saturday the 6th - Carols and Crafts from 10-4 pm

Sunday the 7th – General Meeting at noon in Panabaker

As part of the Calgary Interfaith Council’s Weekend of Welcome speaker exchange, we are delighted to have Rabbi Mark Glickman with us on Wednesday, December 3 rd at 7 pm.

In 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic of the Ben EzraSynagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and there found the largest treasure trove of medieval and early manuscripts ever discovered. He had entered the synagogue’s genizah—its repository fordamaged and destroyed Jewish texts—which held nearly 300,000 individual documents, manyof which were over 1,000 years old. Why was this enormous collection amassed, how was it discovered and what are the many lessons to be found in its contents? Schechter’s find, though still being “unpacked” today, forever transformed our knowledge of the Jewish past, Muslim history and much more. Rabbi Glickman’s talk will tell the story of this astounding discovery.
 
Rabbi Mark Glickman is the spiritual leader of Temple B’nai Tikvah, in Calgary. He is the author of Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2011), and Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books (Jewish Publication Society, 2016). He is currently working on a
book entitled Looking to the Sun and the Moon: The Story of the Jewish Calendar.