Holidays & Ceremonies

Throughout the year (or sometimes just once a year), our congregations hold services to honor the newest members of the congregation.

In most Unitarian Universalist congregations, "youth" refers to middle- and high school students.

A time to celebrate the sacred vocation of fatherhood and the larger themes of paternal figures in our lives.

Second Sunday in June. This is a service that focuses on children and the children’s religious education (RE) program.

Unitarian Universalist teenagers usually join their congregations with a ceremony preceded by a curriculum helping them to articulate their own beliefs.

The Sunday before the last Monday in May: an important occasion to memorialize loved ones who have died in war or in other ways.

A time to remember cycles, seasons, the inevitability of change. A time to make an inner turn as nature makes a turn of Her own.

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Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration honoring African heritage in African-American culture, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.

Diwali (or Divali) is the Indian festival of lights, and India's biggest and most important holiday of the year.