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Sunday, March 1, 10:30am
Hotel Aldea or https://zoom.us/j/414604040/ Password: 294513
free
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday Service
Led by Lauren Osornio, Jeanie Seward-Magee, and Cathy Cánepa
By Kate Greenaway, UUFSMA member
This week, we’ll hear a heartfelt excerpt from “Finding Inner Peace” by Ted Englander, shared by his partner, Lauren Osornio. In this piece, Ted asks, “How do we settle our inner turmoil when life is stressful, unfair, or simply not going our way?” He offers a practical tool he used for years—an affirmation and a set of gentle, searching questions—to help shift from upset into stillness, guidance, and a wider perspective. He draws on his experience not only with everyday irritations but also with a life-changing illness.
If you’re carrying worry, grief, anger, or a restless mind, this brief reflection offers a compassionate invitation: pause, get quiet, notice what you’re clinging to, and see if there’s another doorway to peace—right here, right now.
To help us embrace that invitation, Cathy Cánepa will guide some of us in a labyrinth walk, while Jeanie Seward-Magee will simultaneously lead others in seated meditation. A labyrinth is not a maze; it’s a single, continuous path to the center and back out, without choices or dead ends. Walking it slowly can be a form of moving meditation—no wrong turns, no decisions to make. We simply walk, breathe, let our thoughts settle, and follow the path inward and back out again.
Lauren Osornio is a longtime UU whose spiritual path began with her discovery of Don Miguel Ruiz’s “The Four Agreements” in the late 1990s. She and Ted actively studied A Course in Miracles for years. She is an active contributor to our Fellowship and regularly supports our music program with her beautiful voice.
Jeanie Seward-Magee, from Vancouver, Canada, is a 30-year student and an ordained dharma teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. She co-founded the Buddhist Sangha of the Heart here in San Miguel de Allende and has written two books on living mindfully.
Cathy Cánepa is a retired psychiatrist and psychotherapist with 30+ years as a UU. A longtime student of centering techniques, including theater exercises and chanting, and a teacher of mindfulness-focused psychotherapy, she draws inspiration from Jack Kornfield and Thich Nhat Hanh. Cathy has co-chaired our Sunday Service Committee for several years.
Unitarian Universalism is a liberal faith centered on shared values for living. Our UU Fellowship welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We gather not around a belief in divinity, but around community, love, compassion, social justice, reverence for nature, and the spirituality of music within the interconnected web of existence.
The UUFSMA Social Justice Foundation supports local nonprofits that provide health, educational, environmental, and other services. Learn more at https://www.uufsma.org/foundation.html .
Young Explorers is UUFSMA’s bilingual religious education program for children and youth ages 5-15. Classes are held twice a month. Everyone is welcome. Contact Anne Geyer at annegeyer12@gmail.com to learn more.
To participate in our online Sunday Service, visit www.uufsma.org and click on the Zoom Service button on the home page. If requested, enter password: 294513. Sign in from anywhere on Sunday mornings between 10:15 and 10:25 a.m. CST. Enjoy previous services at https://www.youtube.com/UUFSMA.
We meet at 10:30 a.m. at the Hotel Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15, in San Miguel de Allende. Join us!
Link to current service description: www.uufsma.org/upcomingservice.html
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