Join the Community Action Committee on October 6 as we volunteer with common cathedral, the church for the unhoused that meets on Boston Common. During Communion at our Morning Prayer service we will present the sandwiches to be blessed by Rev. Joy Fallon and the congregation in preparation for a shared meal at 12:30 PM with our unhoused neighbors. 

What's it like to share in food and fellowship with common cathedral? Gary Riccio, who  volunteers regularly, says, "..the expectation is that there are no expectations ...almost everyone in the congregation is welcoming when you approach them with a smile, a handshake, standing close to them for worship or, dare I say, eye contact. There are so many ways to make a human connection at common cathedral and, in this way, it provides an opportunity to practice or rekindle skills that seem to be increasingly lost in the fractured business of postmodern life. The experience is the simple humanity of it. Perhaps that, ultimately, is the point of it all." 

Email Amanda Pickett at 

amanda.e.pickett@gmail.com to sign up or to ask questions.

If you love the Requiems by Fauré and Duruflé, Alfred Desenclos's setting is just waiting for you to discover it. First published in the 1960s and described as "highly expressive and atmospheric, yet rooted in rigorous compositional technique", it is in fact so gorgeous that an American fraudster composer tried to pass it off as his own work in the 1990s!

Hubert Parry wrote his Songs of Farewell during World War I, a war that profoundly affected this composer who had great affection for all things Germanic. Parry chose to set English poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries, by Henry Vaughan, John Davies, and Thomas Campion.

William Schuman was a fascinating character in American music life. He started out as a composer of popular song, and went on to serve as president of the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center. Carols of Death are set to the haunting Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman.

Following the performance, the music committee invites everyone to a splendid reception at the Parish House - we hope to see you all there!

With this triple entente of musings on mortality, we hope to echo last season's Armistice program, Dona Nobis Pacem.

King's Chapel -- the oldest Unitarian church in the US -- is a "partner church" with the First Unitarian Church of Kolozsvár, Romania -- the original Unitarian church in Europe. Our connection with this historic Transylvanian Unitarian Church began in 1921-22 after WW I's devastation of that land, and became one of the earliest partnerships between international Unitarian churches, a model now replicated hundreds of times. 

In 2021-22, we hope to celebrate the Centennial of this historic partnership. Last year, First Unitarian's minister, the Rev. Norbert Rácz, invited us to plan this centennial with him. The Rev. Joy Fallon and Denton Crews, Chair of our Denominational Affairs Committee, had three phone conferences in the winter and spring this year with Rev. Rácz and his colleague, the Rev. Júlia Jobbágy. One early suggestion made by our partners is that King's Chapel members travel to Transylvania in 2021 and Kolozsvrar church members travel to Boston in 2022. We're delighted to have just begun further conversations to flesh out this preliminary schedule. For more information CLICK HERE .