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For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonIntheLanguageoftheSpirit.

Summary of sermon: This 2017 sermon(published in 2018) is from Reverend Dr. Czire Szabolcs who is the teacher of Old Testament and New Testament subjects at the Protestáns Teológiai Intézet unitárius szakirányán (Protestant Theological Institute, Unitarian profile),  Kolozsvár, Transylvania.  He was a Balazs scholar in 2014.   The topic of this sermon is the story of Pentecost, and how it is still very applicable to our lives.  This sermon won the 1st place in the 2017 sermon contest organized by the Hungarian Unitarian Church at Kolozsvár.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonOurTraditionofRenewal.

Summary of sermon: This 2018 sermon is from Reverend Jakabházi Béla Botond who is the minister at Nyárádgálfalva, Transylvania.  He was a Balazs scholar in 2007-2008.   The central theme of this sermon is why we want ask the following questions: as people of Unitarian faith  “Who are we? and Who do we want to become?” .  The answers are coming from the rich cultural traditions of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, and the words of Jesus.  This sermon won the 3rd place in the 450th Anniversary year contest organized by the Hungarian Unitarian Church at Kolozsvár.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on “Translated Stories for All Ages”, and then click on the title: The Wishes.

Summary of the story: A poor man receives a gift of three wishes for his wife.  A happy ending unfolds in an unexpected way.

For the full order of service go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on “Transylvania-focused orders of services”, and then click on the title: August 25, 2019 OOS.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonOnTheWayThere.

Summary of sermon: This 2018 sermon is from Kovács Sándor, one of the theology teachers at the Protestant Theological Institute at Kolozsvár, Transylvania.   Kovács Sándor is also running the library at the headquarters of the Hungarian Unitarian Church at Kolozsvár, Transylvania.  The topic of this sermon is God’s promise to the Jewish leaders exiled to Babylon. This sermon won a shared 1st prize in the 450th Anniversary year contest organized by the Hungarian Unitarian Church at Kolozsvár.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonTheTriumph.

Summary of sermon: This 2018 sermon is from Szabó Előd, the minister at the Unitarian Church at Ürmös in Transylvania.  The topic is the commemoration of Ferenc David’s death at the memorial service. This sermon won the 1st prize in the 450th Anniversary year contest organized by the Hungarian Unitarian Church at Kolozsvar.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonHiddenTreasures.

Summary of sermon: This 1973 sermon is from Gellerd Imre, a great preacher and a great homiletics expert, and Unitarian historian.  His martyrdom seven years later during the communist regime in Romania ended the life of a tremendous person and the works of a world class expert in Transylvanian Unitarian history.  He is the father of Gellerd Judit (Zizi), who, through her own actions,  has changed the Unitarian world for the better.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Transylvanian Unitarian Sermons line, and then click on the title: SermonKolozsvarBlues.

Summary of sermon: This 2008 sermon is from one of the teachers at the Unitarian Section of the Protestant Theological Institute in Kolozsvar.  The sermon was presented at a youth gathering.  Once you read this, you will look at Kolozsvar with a different eye, and when you visit there you’ll be asking your host to show you all the locations referenced in this sermon.

For the full order of service go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on “Transylvania-focused orders of services”, and then click on the title: May 12, 2019 OOS.

AT this service we included the Flower Communion.

For full text go to the menu on top of the UnitarianTorch home page, click on Translated Sermons page, and then click on the title: SermonMother’sDay.

Summary of sermon: This 2018 sermon is from one of the more active contemporary unitarian ministers, Rev. Pap  Gy. Laszlo.  He spent most of his life in Transylvania; at the time of writing this sermon he was the minister in Debrecen, Hungary.  Appreciation of our mothers gain a new reason through this sermon.