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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.

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: SermonThatDivineTruth.

Summary of sermon: This 1871 sermon is from one of the greatest Unitarian bishops, Kriza Janos.  Towards the second half of the 19th century he and his followers re-shaped the Transylvanian Unitarian Church.  In my opinion, this sermon is on the level of William Ellery Channing’s “Christian Unitarianism”. Long with lots of substance.

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 fox, the bear, and the poor man.

Summary of the story: The poor man learns to use the advice from the fox: brain power can take you farther than brute force.

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: February 24, 2019 OOS.