The Transylvanian Unitarian High School Choir of Kolozsvar is touring the USA. Kolozsvar is about 90 minutes drive from our Partner Church in Sinfalva. Here is the entire schedule. I was privileged to attend the performance at Shelter Rock UU on Long Island. It was a wonderful event. Such a joy to see these lovely
I traveled to Hungary and the Transylvania region of Romania in September 2024. I had some personal reasons (visiting relatives, etc) but of interest to MUUF would be my visits to our Partner Church in Sinfalva (Cornesti, see map below) and my participation in the Fourth International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women and People of
Click here for a short report on my recent trip to Transylvania to attend the ICUUW (International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women) Convo 2024 meeting in Kolozsvár, Romania. While I was there I was able to visit Sinfalva twice, since it was only an hour away. On the second visit I was able to show Rev.
The Partner Church Committee led a Sunday Service on 8/6/23 entitled 30 Years of Partnership with Sinfalva . A link to the YouTube video of the service is here . Check it out, we think it’s pretty good! A better video of the service is here, the difference is that the photos from Diana and Don
As a Service Auction offering, four intrepid MUUF-ers were introduced to the Hungarian language in a 90 minute lesson. This included a brief introduction to our Partner Church’s connection to the Hungarian language, and then a quick survey/overview of some of the features and idiosyncrasies of this odd and wonderful language, and especially how it
Zoltan Pálfi, the younger son of the minister, has sent this REMARKABLE video of a Confirmation ceremony, held earlier this year. It’s only 2 minutes but it is a wonderful peek into the village of Sinfalva and the religious life there. I urge you to watch, it really is something special. In this video you
I’m not sure how, but Don heard about the origins of Unitarianism in Transylvania, and decided to travel there in 1990. He and Chica ended up travelling around Romania and actually meeting the Unitarian bishop, Georgy Andrassi, in Torda. Here is a photo of them, currently on display in the Partner Church Corner, in the MUF
Judy was a long-time member of the Partner Church Committee. Pre-Pandemic the committee would usually meet at Judy and John’s house. They offered on multiple occasions to host our Partner Church minister and his family for a multi-week visit at their house, and it was a source of puzzlement and frustration that Rev. Pálfi and
We hope that you have glanced at the Partner Church Corner in the MUUF Library and have examined some of the artifacts which we display there. It has been there for a number of years, pretty much unchanged. This year, as part of an overall cleanup and “refresh” of the Library we are refreshing the
Find a Stillness (song #352) in Hungarian Sunday March 14, 2021 is our UN Sunday service. This year it is a collaboration between UU@UN, Green Earth Ministry (GEM) and Partner Church Committee (PCC). Part of the music is song #352 Find a Stillness sung in Hungarian by our spectacularly talented Music Director, Stearns Matthews. You are
