THE ALL SOULS WEEKLY: MARCH 17-24

March 17

Sunday at All Souls

11:15 am

"The Music of Life"

with Rev. Galen Guengerich



Join us online or in person for this service of music and meditation!

For those attending in person, All Souls provides listening assistance through Bluetooth enabled hearing aids or through earbuds from your smart phone. Detailed instructions are available in the vestibule.

Join us after the service for a special coffee hour and volunteer fair in Reidy Friendship Hall.

Adult Education: Flourishing! with Shelley Tupper

10 am | The Ware Room

Through a collaborative and practical approach, our experienced facilitator, Shelley Tupper will guide you through a journey of self-discovery and development, helping you identify your strengths, values, and goals. Feel free to attend one or all sessions!

Sunday Youth Programs

10:30 am - 1 pm

Children’s Choir

10:30 am | Classroom 3A

Religious Education

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Mindful Moments (Ages 6 - 9)

Classroom 3B

Game Changers (Ages 10 - 12) Classroom 2A

High School Youth Group

11:15 am - 12:30 pm | Classroom 2B

Youth Community Service Activity

12:15 - 1 pm | The Kitchen & Minot Simons Room

All Souls Board Meeting

1 pm | Forrest Church Gallery

All are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Active Hope for the Climate Crisis with Laura Cohen

2 pm | The Ware Room

In this program, we will work with eco-activist and scholar Joanna Macy’s book Active Hope in order to give space to our emotions around the climate crisis together, develop tools for expanding our capacities to hold these difficult feelings, and channel them into climate justice action for the benefit of all beings.

Help All Souls fill the space with beautiful floral blooms on Easter Sunday! We are seeking donations for Easter flowers for our Easter service. Tributes in memory or in an honor of a loved one or celebrating your membership and love of All Souls are all accepted and will be noted in the Easter Order of Service. To donate click the button below and remember to write Easter flowers in the note. Email your written tribute to cecily@allsoulsnyc.org.

Share the Plate: Nominate an Organization for Congregational Support!

The Share the Plate Committee is requesting nominations for the months May to December 2024. Please direct any questions to Karen Steele: ksteelny@gmail.com.

Today is the last day to make a suggestion for a group to be supported by the All Souls offertory in 2024!

MONDAY: March 18

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

Meditation & Discussion | 10 AM | Zoom

TUESDAY: March 19

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

Dharma Study Group | 1 PM | Zoom

Women’s Empowerment Group | 5:30 PM | Zoom

Community Choir | 6:30 PM | The Sanctuary

WEDNESDAY: March 20

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

Wednesday Walking Circle | 8:30 AM | Meet at All Souls

Women’s Alliance Monthly Meeting | 1 PM | Reidy Friendship Hall

Stories with Soul | 6:45 PM | Zoom

“God, Death and Francis Crick” by Christof Koch

“Then You Will Know!” by Moshe Schulman

Read by Susan Linden

Host: Laird Kelly

THURSDAY: March 21

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

Transforming Our Suffering | 10 AM | Zoom

Parent Lunch Support Group | 12 PM | Zoom

Children’s Choir | 4:45 PM | The Ware Room

FRIDAY: March 22

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

Cognitively-Based Compassion Training | 10 AM | Zoom *first session!*

Monday Night Hospitality Film Screening Fundraiser | 6 PM | RFH

SATURDAY: March 23

Community Meditation | 8:30 AM | Zoom

SUNDAY: March 24

Flourishing! with Shelley Tupper | 10 AM | The Ware Room

Children’s Choir | 10:30 AM | Classroom 3A

Sunday Worship | 11:15 AM with Rev. Jonipher Kwong

Religious Education | 11:15 AM

• Mindful Moments (Ages 6-9): Classroom 3B
• Game Changers (Ages 10-12): Classroom 2A
• High School Youth Group: Classroom 2B

Youth Art Activity | 12:15 PM | The Ware Room

Coffee Hour | 12:15 PM | Reidy Friendship Hall

Article II Discussion | 1 PM | Reidy Friendship Hall

Active Hope for the Climate Crisis | 2 PM | The Ware Room

Women's Alliance Monthly Meeting

Wednesday, March 20 | 1 PM | Reidy Friendship Hall

Join us for the monthly WA Membership Meeting in Reidy Friendship Hall featuring lunch (BYO), socializing, a business meeting, and a speaker. We’ll provide coffee, tea, and a sweet. With special guest, Barbara Ettington!

Culture & Compassion: Arts for a Cause Film Screening

Fundraiser for Monday Night Hospitality!

Friday, March 22 | 7 - 9 pm| Reidy Friendship Hall

Join Monday Night Hospitality for a special screening of the award-winning short film Born Again Reject, written and directed by Gene Graham. Following the screening, attendees are invited to stay for a Q&A session with the director and cast members, moderated by editor and filmmaker Princess Hairston. Beverages and light snacks will be available.

All proceeds from the event directly benefit Monday Night Hospitality, get your tickets now!

Cognitively-Based Compassion Training

with Miles Bukiet

Fridays, 10 am - 12pm | on Zoom

March 22, 29, April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10

Compassion includes at least two key components: recognition of suffering and a motivation to help. This requires we have affection for others and an awareness of their distress; we desire that someone be free from suffering. Research with CBCT shows that compassion can improve our affect, alleviate stress, decrease depression, and increase self-acceptance. Biologically, compassion is linked to lower cortisol levels and reduced inflammation processes in the body.

Please join Miles Bukiet for this 8-week CBCT course. Classes are highly interactive and include background on research along with meditations. (For a taste of CBCT check out Emory University’s Compassion Shift page.) CBCT® practices are secular and accessible to all–you do not need prior meditation or other background to participate and benefit.

Article II General Assembly Discussion

Sunday, March 24 | 1 PM | Reidy Friendship Hall

Veteran All Souls GA delegates, the Deacons, and the Women’s Alliance invite you to a second discussion of General Assembly 2024, with focus on the Article II proposed revisions. Facilitators of the event ask that you come prepared with general knowledge of the revisions and specific questions. Click the link below to access more information about Article II and the current debates:

Spring Board Dialogue

Sunday, April 21 | Reidy Friendship Hall & Zoom | 1-2 pm

Join the All Souls Board of Trustees to share ideas and ask questions!

Interested in getting more involved at All Souls? Contact Membership and Engagement Coordinator, Gretchen, for more information about assisting with coffee hour or joining the usher team! Gretchen@allsoulsnyc.org

All Souls publishes two email newsletters: The All Souls Weekly, the Friday email which announces upcoming events for the next week; and Today at All Souls, which arrives at 8 am every morning and includes the Zoom information for events that day. We also produce a bi-weekly Buddhism & Mindfulness newsletter and a weekly Education newsletter.

To subscribe, email Communications Assistant, Taylor at Taylor@allsoulsnyc.org and specify which newsletter(s) you would like to receive.

If your group would like something added to our public congregation calendar and shared in our Friday email, please submit to our Communications Assistant, Taylor: Taylor@allsoulsnyc.org



Submissions for the Friday email must be received by the previous Sunday at 4 pm (at least 5 days before the email it is intended for).

Printable Calendar: Submissions or changes in regularly scheduled programming must be submitted by the 15th of the month prior (i.e. March 15th for the April calendar).

If you need to reserve space for an in-person event or meeting at All Souls, please contact our Director of Growth, Cecily: Cecily@allsoulsnyc.org.