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 (18)
- All Souls Day (2)
- Animal Memorial (1)
- Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb (3)
- Bridging Ceremony (2)
- Child Dedication (3)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (16)
- Coming of Age (2)
- Coming Out (6)
- Día de los Muertos (2)
- Disaster or Crisis (8)
- Earth Day (3)
- Easter (4)
- Father's Day (3)
- Good Friday (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (1)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (1)
- July 4th (1)
- Juneteenth (1)
- Labor Day (1)
- Lent (4)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (1)
- Memorial Day (1)
- Memorial Services (2)
- Mother's Day (4)
- Music Sunday (1)
- National Coming Out Day (2)
- New Year (4)
- Pride Sunday (10)
- Remembrance Day (2)
- Summer Solstice (2)
- Thanksgiving (3)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (1)
- Vernal Equinox (1)
- Water Communion (1)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (3)
- Abundance (1)
- Acceptance (5)
- Activism (5)
- Aging (1)
- America (8)
- Anger (1)
- Animals (6)
- Anti-Oppression (17)
- Arts & Music (3)
- Awe (5)
- Balance (2)
- Beauty (3)
- Beginnings (5)
- Birth (1)
- Body (3)
- Brokenness (4)
- Calling (2)
- Caring (5)
- Challenge (1)
- Change (2)
- Children (16)
- Choice (7)
- Coming-of-Age (2)
- Commitment (1)
- Community (10)
- Compassion (3)
- Conflict (1)
- Connections (2)
- Contemplation (3)
- Courage (7)
- Creativity (2)
- Death (7)
- Democracy (2)
- Despair (3)
- Dignity (1)
- Disaster (1)
- Discernment (5)
- Diversity (1)
- Doubt (1)
- Earth (5)
- Environment (1)
- Evil (1)
- Faith (1)
- Family (10)
- Fathers (4)
- Fear (6)
- Food (2)
- Forgiveness (3)
- Freedom (1)
- Friendship (3)
- Gender (2)
- Generations (10)
- Generosity (1)
- Globalism (1)
- God (7)
- Goddess (1)
- Grace (2)
- Grief (6)
- Growth (2)
- Healing (3)
- History (7)
- Hope (11)
- Hospitality (1)
- Human Rights (1)
- Humility (1)
- Identity (9)
- Illness (1)
- Imagination (2)
- Immanence (1)
- Inclusion (3)
- Integrity (4)
- Interdependence (4)
- Journey (3)
- Joy (2)
- Justice (5)
- Leadership (1)
- Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (14)
- Letting Go (3)
- Limitations (1)
- Living Our Faith (2)
- Love (16)
- Marriage (1)
- Military (1)
- Mothers (5)
- Multiculturalism (2)
- Mystery (3)
- Nature (8)
- Oppression (2)
- Pain (2)
- Parents (11)
- Patience (4)
- Playfulness (2)
- Power (4)
- Presence (4)
- Privilege (3)
- Progress (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Purpose (5)
- Race/Ethnicity (5)
- Redemption (1)
- Relationships (9)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (6)
- Sacred (3)
- Sacrifice (1)
- Sadness (1)
- Salvation (1)
- Searching (6)
- Self-Care (5)
- Self-Respect (5)
- Service (1)
- Sexuality (1)
- Shame (1)
- Simplicity (1)
- Solidarity (3)
- Sorrow (1)
- Spirituality (1)
- Spiritual Practice (9)
- Spring (1)
- Stewardship (2)
- Strength (1)
- Suffering (1)
- Tradition (4)
- Transcendence (1)
- Transformation (4)
- Trauma (1)
- Trust (3)
- Truth (2)
- Violence (3)
- Vision (2)
- Vulnerability (3)
- Wholeness (1)
- Winter (2)
- Women (1)
- Wonder (3)
- Work (1)
- Adrian L. H. Graham (1)
- Aisha Ansano (1)
- Alex Haider-Winnett (1)
- Amanda Poppei (1)
- Becky Brooks (2)
- Chris Rothbauer (1)
- Christine Slocum (1)
- Connie Simon (1)
- cristy cardinal (1)
- Daniel Gregoire (2)
- David Glasgow (1)
- DeEtte Waleed (1)
- Elea Kemler (3)
- Elizabeth Harding (1)
- Elizabeth Stevens (1)
- Erica Shadowsong (2)
- Erika Hewitt (2)
- Erin Powers (1)
- Evin Carvill Ziemer (1)
- George A Tyger (1)
- Glen Thomas Rideout (1)
- Heather McDuffee (1)
- Jabari S. Jones (1)
- Jake Morrill (3)
- Jami Yandle (1)
- Jan Richardson (1)
- JD Stillwater (1)
- Jennifer Hundley-Batts (1)
- Karen G. Johnston (1)
- Kendyl L. R. Gibbons (1)
- Kristin Grassel Schmidt (1)
- Laura Dobson (1)
- Laura Shay (1)
- Laura Solomon (2)
- Li Kynvi (2)
- Lilia Cuervo (1)
- Lindasusan Ulrich (2)
- Lora Brandis (1)
- Mandie McGlynn (1)
- Manish Mishra-Marzetti (1)
- Marcus Liefert (1)
- Marisol Caballero (1)
- Maureen Killoran (1)
- Megan Lloyd Joiner (1)
- Mike Adams (1)
- Misha Sanders (1)
- Molly Housh Gordon (1)
- Monica Dobbins (1)
- Myke Johnson (2)
- Nathan Ryan (2)
- Ndidi Achebe (1)
- Otto O’Connor (1)
- Paul S Sawyer (1)
- Quinn Gormley (1)
- Rachel Lonberg (1)
- Robin Bartlett (1)
- Robin Tanner (3)
- Sarah Klinger Osborne (1)
- Sarah Skochko (1)
- Tania Márquez (1)
- Taryn Strauss (1)
- Teresa Schwartz (1)
- Tim Atkins (4)
- Zeb Green (1)
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Crows found ways to adapt to our concrete forests but we have not yet found ways to make sure we are in balance with the rest of creation.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | April 17, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Worship
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What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?Reflection | By Sarah Klinger Osborne | January 3, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Beginnings, Choice, Contemplation, Integrity, New Year, Searching, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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Fear not, the angels would text me. Hallelujah, I’d write back.Reflection | By Marcus Liefert | December 20, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Awe, Children, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Direct Experience, Family, Hope, Parents, Wonder, Worship
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Spirits of winter, I celebrate you!Reflection | By Erica Shadowsong | December 13, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Animals, Earth-Centered, Generations, Goddess, Imagination, Spiritual Practice, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
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The Magnificat is a courageous and subversive song of praise; a call to social justice.Reflection | By Laura Dobson | December 6, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Activism, Advent, Anti-Oppression, Christianity, Courage, History, Justice, Multiculturalism, Worship
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I would have loved it as a kid to have a church that encouraged us to listen to our heartfelt yearning of self.Reflection | By Zeb Green | June 7, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Gender, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Truth, Worship
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I belong, and you belong, and we belong—just as we are.Reflection | By Li Kynvi | May 31, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Body, Courage, Direct Experience, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Oppression, Pride Sunday, Privilege, Secular, Worship
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The miracle of grace is available to us even when it has been left untended.Reflection | By Jennifer Hundley-Batts | May 3, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Food, Grace, Nature, Patience, Stewardship, Summer Solstice, Worship
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Remind me that life is magical and mysterious.Reflection | By JD Stillwater | April 19, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Stewardship, Wonder, Worship
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It’s complicated, sorting out where Jesus fits into my life as a witch. But he hasn’t gone away.Reflection | By Myke Johnson | April 5, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Christianity, Easter, Lent, Worship
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How can I be love instead of being anger and fear?Reflection | By DeEtte Waleed | March 29, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Integrity, Love, Violence, Worship
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I’m proud to belong to a living religious tradition that embraces evolution, both scientifically and spiritually.Reflection | By Tim Atkins | January 4, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Beginnings, New Year, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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Advent encourages us to be present in each moment of waiting.Reflection | By Megan Lloyd Joiner | December 7, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Christianity, Contemplation, Patience, Presence, Sacred, Worship
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Queer joy is resistance.Reflection | By cristy cardinal | November 23, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #LoveResists, #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Community, Direct Experience, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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My vet said, “She's telling you thank you for letting her go.”Reflection | By Ndidi Achebe | October 12, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Animal Memorial, Animals, Death, Direct Experience, Grief, Letting Go, Love, Secular, Worship
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I wasn’t really “born this way.” I grew this way.Reflection | By Heather McDuffee | September 28, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #Pride, Choice, Coming Out, Friendship, God, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Marriage, National Coming Out Day, Transformation, Trust, Worship
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I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.Reflection | By Glen Thomas Rideout | September 14, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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There is no such thing as unskilled labor.Reflection | By Sarah Skochko | August 31, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), America, Compassion, Dignity, Human Rights, Humanism, Labor Day, Secular, Work, Worship
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We have a holy obligation to bring about paradise on this earth; each generation helps us do that.Reflection | By Nathan Ryan | June 15, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Children, Father's Day, Fathers, Generations, Hope, Mothers, Parents, Purpose, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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We are an angry and beautiful people.Reflection | By Laura Solomon | June 1, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Brokenness, Connections, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Fear, Humanism, Love, Suffering, Unitarian Universalism, Worship