Ministers plan parade for Jesus
EUREKA SPRINGS - The Western Carroll County Ministerial Association will host a “Celebrate Jesus” parade at 11:30 a.m. March 30. The parade will feature floats, walkers, clowns, Christian bikers and horses. The parade will travel along Spring Street, starting at the library and ending at the courthouse.
Music in Basin Park will start at 10 a.m. and will be performed by groups from local churches, including praise teams, bands and soloists.
An Easter sunrise service will be at 7 a.m. March 31 at the Christ of the Ozarks statue on the grounds of the Great Passion Play.
Goddess festival to welcome spring
FAYETTEVILLE - An interactive, intergenerational introduction to goddess consciousness will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, 901 W. Cleveland St. The program, “Calling the Directions: Altars for the Goddess,” will focus on the cycle of the seasons, with an emphasis on welcoming spring.
A family-friendly worship service will be at 11 a.m. Activities are part of the Goddess Festival. A full schedule of events is online at goddessfestival.com. Information is available by calling (479) 521-8422.‘Sacred pauses’ focus of retreat
FORT SMITH - St. Scholastica Monastery’s Retreat Center, 1205 S. Albert Pike Ave., will offer a weekend retreat, “Sacred Pauses - Simple Rituals to Live Mindfully Through the Hours,” April 5-7. Sister Macrina Wiederkehr and Velma Frye will lead the program, which will include poetry, song, prayer and silence.
The theme of exploring the spirit of the hours will be drawn from Wiederkehr’s book Seven Sacred Pauses, with accompanying songs composed by Frye.
Cost is $225 and registration is available online at stscho.org or by calling (479) 783-1135.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We stumble and fall
constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true
spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.” - THOMAS MERTON (1915-1968), Trappist monk
Religion, Pages 13 on 03/23/2013