Sunday Service: The Miraculous and the Mundane: A Hanukkah Celebration
Title: Sunday Service: The Miraculous and the Mundane: A Hanukkah Celebration
Location: 6 Locke Street
Description: Sunday, December 13, 10:30 a.m. \”The Miraculous and the Mundane: A Hanukkah
Celebration\”, with Rev. Lara Hoke. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the most basic level,
celebrates \”the miracle of the oil\”. Specifically, after the Maccabee victory, the Temple in Jerusalem was to be rededicated, but there was only enough consecrated oil to keep the eternal
flame lit for one day. The miracle celebrated at Hanukkah is that the oil lasted for eight days –
enough time for more oil to be gathered and consecrated, keeping the eternal flame burning all the
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while. This year, Hanukkah begins at sundown on Friday, December 11. On the 13th, we will light
the Menorah and celebrate, and we will think about Hanukkah — and miracles — from a Unitarian
Universalist perspective.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-12-13
End Time: 11:30
Posted by UUCiA on November 18th, 2009
The Rev. Lara Hoke is a graduate of Cornell University and the
Harvard Divinity School. She is a US Navy veteran and has worked with youth
groups in the central Massachusetts area. She has worked as a hospital chaplain and
as a minister of a UU congregation in the Worcester area. She writes a blog called