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I am singing/of the wonder of how roots/so love the buds they bid them grow...Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Nature, WorshipWorship element -
"Beauty Calls Us Together" is a cantata, composed by Kathryn Canan, Rev. Suzelle Lynch, and John-Ruben Piiraine, to celebrate the Flower Ceremony Centennial.Leader Resource | March 30, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Arts & Music, Flower Communion, Unitarianism, WorshipPage/Article -
Celebrate 100 Years of the Flower Ceremony! The first Flower Ceremony was held in Prague, in June 2023, led by Rev. Norbert Čapek.Leader Resource | By Erika Hewitt | January 17, 2023 | From WorshipLabTagged as: Flower Communion, Unitarianism, Worship TipsPage/Article -
Čapek turned to the beauty of the countryside; to the beauty of flowers.Reading | By Teresa Schwartz, David Schwartz | June 16, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Flower Communion, Unitarianism, WorshipWorship element -
It is not by chance that you arrived here today. You have been looking for something larger than yourself. Inside of you there is a yearning, a calling, a hope for more, A desire for a place of belonging and caring. Through your struggles, someone nurtured you into being, Instilling a belief in a...Opening | By Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson | September 14, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Abundance, Acceptance, Caring, Coming Out, Commitment, Community, Flower Communion, Home, Homecoming / Ingathering, New Member Ceremony, Unitarian Universalism, Water CommunionWorship element
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Within the heart of the flower, the fountain of beauty Within the heart of the community, a fire that warms and dances Within the heart of each of us, a spark of the spirit of life. Holy, holy, holy.Chalice Lighting | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | May 29, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, God, Nature, Paganism, Sacred, WonderWorship element -
Let us give thanks for a bouquet of people. We give thanks for children. Like tulips and iris, they multiply around us, making the world ever more filled with color, beauty, and new life. May we bless them as they replant themselves ever further from us, knowing that they need their own space to...Prayer | By Claire Feingold Thoryn | May 11, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Friendship, Gratitude, Humanism, Nature, SecularWorship element -
This exciting invitation to Unitarian Universalists in the United States comes from the Unitarian community in Prague, on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Flower Communion this June....March 27, 2017 | From Global Unitarian UniversalismTagged as: Flower Communion, Global OpportunitiesPage/Article -
No hot house flowers, these, bred for perfection, dyed and trimmed, and arranged to order, clothed in ribbons and bows. Not these. No, these are hardy, raw and wild. Grown under the sky, they’ve weathered the wind and the rain and the heat. These drew nutrients from the neighborhood soil and...Meditation | By Lisa Doege | June 22, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Abundance, Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Humility, Nature, Spring, Vulnerability, WonderWorship element
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In colors bright and essence sweet, like flowers we blossom when we meet.Doxology | By Lisa Doege | June 22, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Community, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, NatureWorship element -
Laura Evonne Steinman created this coloring page (PDF) for children to use on Flower Ceremony Sunday.Image | By Laura Evonne Steinman | June 13, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Flower Communion, Nature, Unitarian Universalism, UnitarianismWorship element -
Early in the morning, before the children are awake and while the grass is still dewy, I like to walk in my garden. It’s “my” garden only because it shares the same small plot of land my family and I inhabit. The garden does not really belong to me; I belong to it—at least for the short time...Meditation | By David M. Horst | April 5, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Grace, Mystery, Nature, Spiritual Practice, Summer Solstice, Vernal Equinox, WonderWorship element -
Image | By Cynthia Landrum | January 10, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Flower Communion, Nature, SpringWorship element -
As the first hint of green begins to peek through the barren ground As that little sprig grows into a healthy stem As that stem grows into a stalk and forms a bud As that bud slowly opens with each new day To form a yellow daffodil Let us be, like that first hint of green, renewed by the warm of ...Chalice Lighting | By Jennifer McGlothin | October 20, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Beginnings, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Easter, Flower Communion, Growth, Health, Interdependence, Nature, Secular, Spring, Unitarian Universalism, Vernal EquinoxWorship element -
What a gathering—the purple tongues of iris licking out at spikes of lupine, the orange crepe skirts of poppies lifting over buttercup and daisy. Who can be grim in the face of such abundance? There is nothing to compare, no need for beauty to compete. The voluptuous rhododendron and the plain...Meditation | By Lynn Ungar | May 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Beauty, Beginnings, Community, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Growth, Happiness, Nature, SpringWorship element -
When I think of power, strength, sheer physical force, I think of an avalanche. Tons of thundering snow come falling down the side of a steep mountain with the speed and irresistable force of a locomotive or freight train. In an instant an avalanche can sweep away everything in its path. But...Homily | By Gary Kowalski | January 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 6th Principle (World Community), Christianity, Earth, Earth-Centered, Easter, Flower Communion, Nature, Sacrifice, Transcendence, TransformationWorship element
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We come in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Some of us grow in bunches. Some of us grow alone. Some of us are cupped inward, And some of us spread ourselves out wide. Some of us are old and dried and tougher than we appear. Some of us are still in bud....Opening | By Thomas Rhodes | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Diversity, Earth, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Humanism, Imagination, Nature, Secular, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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To be shared after the flowers have been distributed... Within our hands we hold the resurrection of the world. Transient and imperfect, these blossoms are still gifts of infinite value. Like ourselves. Too often we seek permanence and perfection. Resisting change, blind to our shortcomings, We...Meditation | By Thomas Rhodes | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Flower Communion, Humility, Transformation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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In the presence of these flowers,These representatives of Creation's profound beauty:Diverse and Unique, but Related and Interdependent,These flowers which come to us as gifts from we know not whereAnd which we, in turn, choose to bring to our shared and common altarAs gifts to one anotherIn thei...Meditation | By William G. Sinkford | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Flower CommunionWorship element
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It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.Meditation | By Norbert Fabian Capek | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Flower CommunionWorship element