UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF SARASOTA, 3975 FRUITVILLE ROAD, SARASOTA FL 34232, TEL. 941-371-4974
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Roger Fritts speaks at a recent Sunday service at our Sarasota church.
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PictureRev. Fritts at the time of his ordination in 1978
March 22: 10:00 am (One service only)
Occasion: Annual Meeting after the service
Would I Do It Again?
Sermon by Roger Fritts
Reflections of choosing our lives work. 
Music: CY Hong, violin




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Fritts performs a wedding in Bethesda, MD
March  29: 10:00 am (One service only)
A Fond Reminiscence
Sermon by Roger Fritts

This will be my final sermon in Sarasota.
Music: 10: choir
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Lakewood Ranch
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Picture"Christ the King” triptych by Joseph O’Connell
April 5: 10:00 am and 11:30 am 
Palm Sunday in a Post-
​Harry Potter Universe

Sermon by Budd Friend-Jones
The great novelist, James Joyce, once said that his own existence was guided by three principles: exile, cunning and silence. On this Palm Sunday, can these three words describe Jesus and his ministry? As he rides a donkey into Jerusalem, can we think of him as a wizard? As one who inhabits not a different, but a larger, reality? Can we learn from Jesus-as-wizard what it might mean to affirm the full measure of our humanity?


Music: Pete Carney  

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April 12: 10:00 am and 11:30 am 
Easter and Passover
​for Unitarian Universalists

Sermon by Beth Miller
The Jewish and Christian high holy days of springtime have always been intertwined and harken back to Pagan celebrations predating them both.  There are universal human themes here that resonate beyond the unique stories of particular people in specific times.  

Music: 10: choir, 11:30 Mindy Simmons and Ed Kinder

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