Usually December 22.
Winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Traditionally, it is a time of both foreboding and expectancy, as the longest night leads to the return of the sun. “Solstice” in Latin means “the sun standing still.”
The Winter Solstice has become important to both humanists and pagans, who can find common ground in celebrating this occasion. Themes can include light amid darkness; the death of nature and the cycle of life; the darkness just before the dawn; the miracle of every birth.
Faith Without Borders
For everything there is a season—a time to die and a time to be born. With the arrival of winter’s low dark sky, communities around the world look to the miracle of light as a sign of rebirth and a source of hope. We celebrate the promise of new life and recommit ourselves to the protection of everyone’s right to his or her own radiant humanity.
Celebrating the winter holidays is an excellent opportunity for Unitarian Universalist congregations to express their commitment to our Sixth Principle: We covenant to affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. See Sixth Principle Resources for winter holidays.
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Meditation
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Meditation on Winter Celebrations (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: Awe, Ending, Hope, Letting Go, Searching, Unitarian Universalism
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Psalm for the Wintered Soul (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Agnosticism, Depression, Direct Experience, Growth, Healing, Indigenous American, Sadness, Secular, Transcendence, Transformation, Trust, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb
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Solstice (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: Balance, Beauty, Death, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Listening, Mystery, Searching, Silence, Solitude, Vision
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The Last Leaf (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Connections, Contemplation, Despair, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Letting Go, Nature, Reverence, WorshipWeb
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The Longest Night: a Solstice Meditation (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Community, Connections, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Paganism, Sacred, Spirituality, Winter
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The Meaning of the Solstice (WorshipWeb)
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The Moment of Magic (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: Awe, Connections, Earth-Centered, Gratitude, Love, Wonder
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The Rainbow Prayer (WorshipWeb)Tagged as: Awe, Earth, Earth-Centered, Forgiveness, Nature, Presence, Transcendence
