The Flower Ceremony is an annual tradition, symbolizing the power of both the individual and the community. We will again celebrate this festive ritual so bring …a flower for the bouquet. If you forget, we have plenty! As this is our last service with the Rev. Heather Janules, flowers will help us reflect on letting … Continue reading A Bouquet of Stories: The Flower Ceremony
For 100 years, Unitarians and UUs have celebrated the Flower Ceremony, a ritual of bringing, blessing and sharing flowers as an embodied way to celebrate the beauty of diversity and unity. This service will include this ritual…so bring a flower! Cultivated, dandilion or roadside will do… We will also celebrate Queer pride as another joyful … Continue reading 100 Years of Delight: The Flower Ceremony
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Generations ago, a Unitarian minister created a ritual celebrating the individuality of every person, the power of a number of individuals coming together and the beauty of each individual freely choosing to join the others. This is Flower Communion, a ritual whose meaning has only deepened in this year of national … Continue reading The Transient and the Permanent: Flower Communion
Link for Sunday Worship: https://tinyurl.com/WUSworship Flower Communion is an annual ritual first created by Norbert Čapek so his congregation could celebrate their collective beauty, diversity and individuality. In this intergenerational service, we reflect on the lessons that Čapek and flowers themselves teach us about community in challenging times. Bring a flower when you log-on. You … Continue reading The Gospel of Flowers: Flower Communion
Norbert Čapek created the Flower Communion ritual as a way to celebrate both the unity and diversity in community. In this concluding spring service, we will practice Flower Communion and also consider the bigger story it tells about the cycle of birth, blossoming and enduring found in all of life. We will also celebrate Alison … Continue reading Branches, Blossoms and Leaves: A Flower Communion in Three Acts
Garden Gospels PDF “Garden Gospels” June 10, 2018 The Rev. Heather Janules This past Friday, I began my day of writing in a place I visit many times a week, Horn Pond. It was a gorgeous morning, sunny but cool, with many people and their dogs enjoying the weather. All around us was … Continue reading Garden Gospels: Flower Communion
