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 (3)
- All Saints Day (2)
- All Souls Day (2)
- Animal Blessing (4)
- Autumnal Equinox (14)
- Building/Space Dedication (1)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Child Dedication (2)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (1)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (3)
- Communion (Christian) (2)
- Disaster or Crisis (4)
- Earth Day (56)
- Easter (7)
- Flower Communion (9)
- Halloween (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (7)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (6)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (1)
- Installations (1)
- Joys & Concerns (1)
- July 4th (1)
- Justice Sunday (1)
- Lammas (1)
- Mother's Day (1)
- New Child (2)
- New Member Ceremony (1)
- Ordinations (1)
- Passover (Pesach) (1)
- Remembrance Day (1)
- Samhain (2)
- Summer Solstice (9)
- Table Grace (2)
- Thanksgiving (2)
- Vernal Equinox (22)
- Water Communion (22)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (2)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (15)
- Abundance (11)
- Acceptance (3)
- Activism (1)
- Animals (14)
- Anti-Oppression (2)
- Awe (24)
- Balance (8)
- Beauty (25)
- Beginnings (5)
- Birth (1)
- Body (8)
- Brokenness (2)
- Calling (1)
- Challenge (1)
- Change (5)
- Children (5)
- Commitment (3)
- Community (18)
- Compassion (3)
- Connections (21)
- Contemplation (6)
- Courage (2)
- Creativity (2)
- Death (3)
- Despair (3)
- Disaster (1)
- Discernment (2)
- Diversity (2)
- Economy (1)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (11)
- Faith (4)
- Fall (1)
- Family (3)
- Fathers (2)
- Fear (3)
- Food (8)
- Forgiveness (2)
- Freedom (2)
- Friendship (2)
- Gender (1)
- Generations (4)
- Generosity (1)
- Globalism (1)
- God (1)
- Goddess (1)
- Good (1)
- Grace (4)
- Gratitude (14)
- Grief (3)
- Growth (9)
- Healing (5)
- Health (1)
- Home (2)
- Hope (10)
- Hospitality (1)
- Humility (3)
- Identity (1)
- Imagination (10)
- Immanence (1)
- Inclusion (2)
- Interdependence (26)
- Intimacy (1)
- Journey (4)
- Joy (4)
- Justice (2)
- Leadership (1)
- Letting Go (3)
- Limitations (1)
- Listening (2)
- Living Our Faith (1)
- Love (5)
- Meaning (4)
- Mothers (2)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Mystery (2)
- Nature (105)
- Pain (2)
- Parents (2)
- Patience (3)
- Peace (1)
- Playfulness (3)
- Power (3)
- Presence (4)
- Privilege (1)
- Purpose (1)
- Race/Ethnicity (1)
- Reconciliation (1)
- Relationships (11)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (18)
- Reverence (5)
- Sacred (5)
- Sacrifice (1)
- Salvation (1)
- Science (3)
- Searching (6)
- Self-Care (1)
- Self-Respect (2)
- Service (2)
- Silence (1)
- Simplicity (1)
- Solidarity (1)
- Spirituality (3)
- Spiritual Practice (3)
- Spring (12)
- Stewardship (8)
- Strength (8)
- Summer (1)
- Tradition (1)
- Transcendence (6)
- Transformation (12)
- Trauma (2)
- Trust (3)
- Truth (1)
- Unity (3)
- Vision (1)
- Wholeness (5)
- Winter (9)
- Wisdom (6)
- Wonder (15)
- (-) Earth (136)
- Adaku Utah (1)
- Albert Schweitzer (1)
- Alice Berry (1)
- Amy Brooks (1)
- Andrea Hawkins-Kamper (1)
- Andrew M Hill (1)
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- Austin Putman (1)
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- Barbara Rohde (2)
- Barnaby Feder (1)
- Ben Soule (1)
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- Burton D. Carley (1)
- Caitlin Cotter Coillberg (1)
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- David M. Horst (1)
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- Denise Cawley (1)
- Diana Smith (2)
- Duane H. Fickeisen (1)
- Elizabeth Lerner Maclay (1)
- Elizabeth M Strong (2)
- Erica Baron (1)
- Eric Cherry (1)
- Eric Williams (2)
- Evin Carvill Ziemer (1)
- Gary Kowalski (3)
- George A Tyger (1)
- Gregory Jones (1)
- Gregory Pelley (1)
- Gretchen Haley (1)
- Hope Jahren (1)
- Irene Glasse (1)
- Jamila Batchelder (2)
- Jason Shelton (1)
- Jay Wolin (1)
- JD Stillwater (1)
- Jeanne Lloyd (1)
- JeKaren Olaoya (1)
- Jennifer Hundley-Batts (1)
- Jennifer Johnson (1)
- Jennifer McGlothin (1)
- Jennifer Pratt-Walter (4)
- John Daniel (1)
- John Robbins (1)
- Jonalu Johnstone (1)
- Judith L Quarles (1)
- Julia Corbett-Hemeyer (1)
- Julia Hamilton (2)
- Julián Jamaica Soto (1)
- Karen G. Johnston (1)
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- Katie Sivani Gelfand (1)
- Kimberly Beyer-Nelson (1)
- Laura Bogle (1)
- Laura Evonne Steinman (1)
- Laura Horton-Ludwig (1)
- Leslie Takahashi (2)
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- Lori Gorgas Hlaban (1)
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- Sharon Delgadillo (1)
- Sharon Wylie (2)
- Stephanie Noble (1)
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- Susan Karlson (1)
- Swiftwalker (1)
- Terasa Cooley (1)
- Tess Baumberger (1)
- Thomas Rhodes (2)
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- Viola Abbitt (1)
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Today, we are charged to remember. To know that as we live together in community, we are also in community with the silently singing lives in the vast congregation of the earth as well... Let us remember, and then act.Reading | By Irene Glasse, Rebekah Savage | April 24, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Nature, Sacred, WorshipWeb, Worship
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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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It takes courage to bring our trust forward and invite another person to meet us there. This sometimes sure, often shaky, surrender is an opportunity to discover something deeper than the confines of our individual experience.Reading | By Adaku Utah | January 21, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Freedom, Growth, Interdependence, Nature, Relationships, Trust, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We light this chalice, here in the darkness of winter as we wait.Chalice Lighting | By JeKaren Olaoya | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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The fulcrum of the Earth tilts toward goodness and I will ride along…Reading | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Good, Nature, Transcendence, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Love this world, she whispers.Poetry | By Rebecca Ann Parker | November 30, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Beauty, Brokenness, Earth, Love, Wholeness, Winter Solstice / Yule, Wonder, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Is it not a marvel?Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Animals, Awe, Body, Earth, Earth Day, Nature, Wonder
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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, WorshipWeb, 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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Beneath the crust of earth, seeds and bulbs lay in store.Meditation | By Jennifer Johnson | March 10, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Patience, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Winter, WorshipWeb, Worship
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One of the Goddess’s best friends was a cardinal—a bright red bird who loved to play with the Goddess and the Sun.Story | By Christina Leone Tracy | December 16, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Animals, Change, Earth, Earth-Centered, Ending, Faith, Friendship, Goddess, Imagination, Letting Go, Nature, Paganism, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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All that we are, together and individually, is part of the abundance of the universe.Responsive Reading | By Julián Jamaica Soto | November 11, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Canvass/Pledge, Connections, Earth, Earth-Centered, Gratitude, Interdependence, Stewardship, WorshipWeb, Worship
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As you go forth into this new phase of your life’s adventure...Blessing | By Julia Corbett-Hemeyer | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Installations, Leadership, Nature, Ordinations
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Beneath the snow, life is bursting, preparing for the next season.Meditation | By Sharon Delgadillo | August 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, Nature, Secular, Spring, Vernal Equinox, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we reconnect to our life-giving, breath-freeing connectionPrayer | By Leslie Takahashi | May 1, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, Climate Justice, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Water sustains, gives, and yields to / Life.Reading | By Melissa Jeter | March 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Water Communion, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Spirit of Life, spirit of earth, spirit of all that breathes and all that is: we love you.Prayer | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | May 3, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, Stewardship, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Like the sun moving toward the shortest day, each moment arises—and is gone before we know it.Meditation | By Lori Gorgas Hlaban | October 13, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Autumnal Equinox, Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship
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This solstice night [or day] In honor of ancient traditions that celebrate this time of longest night, we observe that the flaming chalice holds the elements of the four directions: Earth, air, fire, water....Chalice Lighting | By Sharon Wylie | May 5, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Winter Solstice / Yule