Ordination of Kathryn Jay

02-16-2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm


KATHRYN JAY’S ORDINATION will take place during our Sunday service, followed by a reception in the Atrium and Social Hall.  This is an ALL AGES SERVICE. All are invited to attend!

Our congregation is honored to have been asked by Kathryn Jay, UUCB’s Director of Religious Education and Family Ministry, to ordain her as a UU minister.  UUCB has been Kathryn’s spiritual home for over a decade, well before she attended seminary.  After her ministerial internship in St. Paul, Minnesota, she returned with her family to Berkeley. UUCB is her home church.

Ordination is one of the most important traditions of our faith. A congregation’s decision to ordain someone represents the congregation’s faith in, and support for, the ordinand’s ministry. This recognition of a person’s calling forth is also a recognition of their setting apart, functioning as “a rite of initiation, taking an ordinand from their status as layperson and initiating them into the community of clergy.”  In the Unitarian Universalist tradition, the ritual of ordination also allows the minister to use the title of Reverend.

As a formal recognition of entry into service as a Unitarian Universalist minister, ordination offers an invitation to individual and communal transformation, as well as an opportunity to serve our faith in the world.