"Didymus" - Unitarians in Ringwood: Our start date and anniversary day

08 January 2023

Our start date and anniversary day - 18 January 2014

This fellowship first met together as a fellowship on 18 January 2014. So on 18 January 2023 it is our ninth anniversary.

Though our membership has never been more than six, and we have seldom met together in a group larger than six, a look at our register over the years shows that over twenty people have participated with us from time to time. We will put more detailed numbers here when we have done the analysis.

Happy anniversary to us!

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Myrna31 January, 2023 21:51
Currently on holiday in New Zealand, but not quite leaving myself behind, of course! I enjoyed reading Uni-News to which I sometimes give scant attention. So then I looked at Blogs and went for yours -Yay and congrats on your Fellowship’s continuance. I just read your Dec. writing looking in different ways at the two Christian Testament stories. So good to be reminded of these stories (allegory or not, they speak to us). Thanks!
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Welcome to Didymus !

To us, it seems possible that we may already live in paradise. If so, it will be within us and all around us. But the problem is that we don't look for it so we don't see it; and so we abuse it. We aim to prepare ourselves to awaken to its reality and to begin to live connected to this felt sense of beauty and love.

We will welcome you whatever your beliefs, if your beliefs bring you to community in respect and inclusivity.

Having foibles ourselves, we try to create a "foible-friendly" community.
We don't deny what you experience or think or believe.
We will listen to what you want to say, will sit quietly with you if you want to say nothing, and will be as honest as we can be in return, when you listen to us.

We each aim to work within and at our own private system of belief, long enough and seriously enough that we no longer harbour the fear that another belief can insult or affect our own. We know we do not always succeed.

Gabor Kereki said this on religion the Unitarian way:

Religion ought to provide us with strength, inspiration, spiritual power, and invigorating joy - it ought to reach to the depths of the human spirit where the deepest and most meaningful experiences of life take place.

No Unitarian is called upon to subscribe to any particular belief or to submit to the dominance of a particular doctrine. We need the satisfying and exhilarating experience of worship, we need inspiration for reverence; we need stimulus for duty; we need incentive for love, goodness and beauty; we need a happy spiritual conception of the universe.

One of our main desires is to share our religion with others. In any realm, be it science, art or religion, nobody commends anything to anybody unless first enjoying it, being strengthened and enriched by it.

From ‘Egy Az Isten’ –
Unitarianism – some words of Gabor Kereki
© 1996 General Assembly of
Unitarian and Free Christian Churches

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Our start date and anniversary day - 18 January 2014

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