Unitarian Universalists honor and celebrate a wide range of holidays and occasions over the course of a year. Unlike other faith traditions that use a single lectionary (a collection of scripture readings appointed for a given day or occasion), the topics and themes for Unitarian Universalist worship services are usually chosen independently by worship leaders in congregations. These include unique UU traditions, like the Flower Ceremony, as well as holidays from other faith traditions, such as Christmas or Beltane.
View and download the 2023-24 UUA Worship Calendar (PDF), which includes faith-based and secular holidays that UU congregations often celebrate. The calendar also includes monthly worship themes used in popular theme-based ministry programs. To download or print, follow the link and use the File menu, then select the Landscape layout option.
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- Advent (93)
- All Saints Day (10)
- All Souls Day (21)
- Animal Blessing (13)
- Animal Memorial (9)
- Autumnal Equinox (26)
- Backpack Blessing (7)
- Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb (24)
- Bridging Ceremony (17)
- Building/Space Dedication (20)
- Business Meetings (20)
- Canvass/Pledge (6)
- Child Dedication (24)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (19)
- Children's Sabbath (18)
- Chinese New Year (1)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (128)
- Coming of Age (26)
- Coming Out (22)
- Communion (Christian) (15)
- Community Ministry Sunday (5)
- Día de los Muertos (12)
- Disaster or Crisis (57)
- Divorce / Separation (2)
- Diwali (1)
- Earth Day (73)
- Easter (64)
- Father's Day (26)
- Fire Communion (6)
- Flower Communion (27)
- Gender / Sex Change (1)
- Good Friday (9)
- Graduation Recognition (4)
- Halloween (6)
- Hanukkah (12)
- Hiroshima Day (4)
- Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah (5)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (30)
- IllUUmination (4)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (11)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (8)
- Installations (20)
- Job Loss (1)
- Joys & Concerns (2)
- July 4th (5)
- Juneteenth (11)
- Justice Sunday (22)
- Kwanzaa (6)
- Labor Day (6)
- Lammas (2)
- Leaving Home (1)
- Lent (9)
- Life Transition (14)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (28)
- May Day / Beltane (2)
- Meditation Practices (6)
- Memorial Day (25)
- Memorial Services (35)
- Military Service (8)
- Ministerial Transition (15)
- Mother's Day (36)
- Mourning (9)
- Music Sunday (8)
- Naming Ceremony (1)
- National Coming Out Day (13)
- New Child (12)
- New Home (2)
- New Member Ceremony (14)
- New Year (34)
- Ordinations (20)
- Palm Sunday (4)
- Partner Church Observation (7)
- Passover (Pesach) (11)
- Pentecost (1)
- Prayer Practices (9)
- Pride Sunday (42)
- Purim (1)
- Quinceañera (7)
- Ramadan (1)
- Remembrance Day (17)
- Rosh Hashanah (14)
- Samhain (12)
- Scout Sunday (3)
- Sukkot (1)
- Summer Solstice (15)
- Table Grace (11)
- Teacher Dedication (7)
- Teacher Recognition (7)
- Thanksgiving (35)
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (8)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (5)
- United Nations Day (4)
- Valentine's Day (19)
- Vernal Equinox (30)
- Veterans Day (12)
- Water Communion (37)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (8)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (86)
- Yom Kippur (18)
- Youth Sunday (4)
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- Aging (5)
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- Anti-Oppression (104)
- Arrogance (2)
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- Authority (2)
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- Bridging (4)
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- Interdependence (74)
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Once upon a time there was a drop of water named Higgins. Higgins was no ordinary drop of water. He was a drop with a dream. Higgins lived in a valley where it had not rained in a very long time, so all the lovely green grass was turning brown, all the beautiful flowers were wilting, and all the...Story | By Christopher Buice | April 14, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Community, Earth, Power, Purpose, Service, Strength, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion
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The Resurrection is to me the most difficult story in the Bible. John 20:31: Jesus said unto Thomas, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." To elaborate on this, I look at three characters in the story. Mary Magdalene, a woman...Reading | By Ricardo Williams | April 13, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Commitment, Doubt, Easter, Faith, Presence
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This can be read by a single voice, or the congregation can be invited to speak, responsively, the phrase "Jesus is resurrected." Jesus is resurrected— because his message of love, justice, healing, and liberation transcends time and space. Jesus is resurrected— because in his story we hear our...Litany | By Kimberley Debus | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Easter, Faith, Hope
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Let us contemplate the Spirit together: Spirit of Life and Love, Justice and Peace: Six weeks ago our Christian neighbors held their rite of ashes, and this past week they scattered palms from which next year’s ashes will be made, and commemorated the death of the ancient leader whose ministry...Prayer | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Connections, Easter, Hope, Interdependence
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Let us contemplate the Spirit together: Spirit of Life and Love, Justice and Peace: Day in and day out wait weary tasks, burdens we lift again, worn paths we wear some more, Want, and means worn thin, and fatigue— Pain and grief, coldness of heart, bitter and weary days&mdash Where we know...Prayer | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Balance, Easter, Healing, Health, Hope, Strength
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We do not know the woman’s name. Jesus tells those with him not to scold her for anointing his head: “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not...Reading | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Connections, Easter, Faith, Relationships, Unity
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In all sacred literature, the hearts of the storytellers are revealed in the stories, their breath is felt in the words on the page, and we may be touched or moved or stirred by their ancient art. And maybe we can glimpse a truth that they saw, if we read closely and reflect on what we have read.Reading | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Christianity, Contemplation, Easter, Mystery
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“I believe that if, on every Sunday morning before going to church, we could be lifted to a mountain-peak and see a horizon line of six hundred miles enfolding the copious splendor of the light on such a varied expanse; or if we could look upon a square mile of flowers representing all the specie...Quote | By Thomas Starr King | March 31, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Earth, Earth Day, Nature, Reverence, Unitarianism, Universalism, Wonder, Climate Justice
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The Earth has returned. She is living, breathing, Realizing her breath was leaving. She was needing us to remember her worth, to recognize her worth all over again. We used to be her friends. We used to help her heal us. Help her, heal us. Help her heal us....Poetry | By Christopher Sims | March 30, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Healing, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarian Universalism, Climate Justice
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This chalice burns with twin flames. The first flame burns for those who seek and defend the right to a free and responsible search for truth and meaning so that each person may live according to conscience in a democratically elected society. The second flame burns for the defenders of freedom,...Chalice Lighting | By Tracy Bleakney | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, America, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Democracy, Freedom, July 4th, Justice Sunday, Memorial Day, Oppression, Power, Responsibility, Rights, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb
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The day after the seder, reality shoves back in like a football player with lowered shoulder. Dishes to wash: the browned kugel pan, chopping knives, the eggbeater that whipped the whites for Eppie’s matzah balls, the gravy boats that held haroset, the glass bowls encrusted with salt. All day...Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Food, Judaism, Passover (Pesach), Prophetic Words & Deeds, Spiritual Practice, Tradition
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"So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders." —Exodus 12:34 You’ll need to travel light. Take what you can carry: a book, a poem, a battered tin cup, your child strapped to your chest, clutching your necklace in one...Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Courage, Fear, Freedom, Judaism, Letting Go, Passover (Pesach), Tradition, Transformation
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Breakfast on kosher macaroons and Diet Pepsi in the car on the way to Price Chopper for lamb. Peel five pounds of onions and let the Cuisinart shred them while you push them down and weep....Poetry | By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat | March 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Food, Freedom, Generations, Judaism, Passover (Pesach), Prophetic Words & Deeds, Spirituality, Tradition
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Lay Leader: Our church family is constantly changing. People come and go. Babies are born. Children grow up. People commit themselves to one another. Loved ones and friend among us come to the end of their lives. Individuals move into our community and church life. Others leave us, moving away to...Ritual | By Chip Roush | March 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Community, Ending, Leadership, Letting Go, Ministerial Transition, Service, Unitarian Universalism
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Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land to a good and broad land, a land...Meditation | By John Nichols | March 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Freedom, God, Integrity, Judaism, Passover (Pesach)
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When the escape from Egypt was certain, when the last furious wave had closed over their enemies' heads and the dangerous waters lay smooth again, when the Israelites could finally turn toward the future without fear that the past would snatch them back--what did they see before them? Not the...Meditation | By Kathleen McTigue | March 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Fear, Judaism, Passover (Pesach), Searching, Tradition, Transformation
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They had no idea where they were going, when they left that night, in the dark, without lights, without shoes, without bread, their children smothered against them so they would make no noise....Meditation | By Victoria Safford | March 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Courage, Faith, Freedom, Identity, Journey, Judaism, Passover (Pesach), Purpose, Searching, Tradition
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Committed to respond to the call of a wounded world… We join together this day with loving hearts, hands and minds. Embracing the interconnected web of water, air and earth… We light a fire of sustaining hope, ever bright with love and justice. May we bring forth this day new wisdom, strength...Opening | By Lynn Harrison | March 18, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Home, Nature, Responsibility, Unitarian Universalism, Climate Justice
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During the hot Nebraska summers of my childhood, I spent hours, high in my treehouse, devouring the books I found in the small collection my parents had acquired from the estates of various relatives. One of my favorites was A Wonder Book, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s retelling of classical myths. My...Reading | By Barbara Rohde | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Commitment, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Responsibility, Unitarian Universalism, Climate Justice
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Of course truth is hard. It is a rock. Yet I do not think it will fall upon me And crush me. I do not think they can hammer it to bits And stone me. Help me place the rock in the strong current Of these rushing waters. I must climb upon it. I must know how truth feels....Poetry | By Barbara Rohde | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Strength, Truth, Water Communion, Climate Justice