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 (14)
- All Saints Day (4)
- All Souls Day (6)
- Animal Blessing (3)
- Animal Memorial (2)
- Autumnal Equinox (10)
- Backpack Blessing (4)
- Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb (2)
- Bridging Ceremony (10)
- Building/Space Dedication (11)
- Business Meetings (2)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Child Dedication (8)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (9)
- Children's Sabbath (8)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (36)
- Coming of Age (12)
- Coming Out (4)
- Communion (Christian) (4)
- Día de los Muertos (3)
- Disaster or Crisis (28)
- Divorce / Separation (1)
- Earth Day (22)
- Easter (17)
- Father's Day (15)
- Flower Communion (14)
- Good Friday (3)
- Graduation Recognition (2)
- Halloween (1)
- Hanukkah (4)
- Hiroshima Day (4)
- Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (6)
- IllUUmination (1)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (7)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (3)
- Installations (7)
- Joys & Concerns (2)
- July 4th (1)
- Justice Sunday (7)
- Kwanzaa (2)
- Lammas (1)
- Life Transition (3)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (6)
- May Day / Beltane (1)
- Meditation Practices (5)
- Memorial Day (16)
- Memorial Services (11)
- Military Service (6)
- Ministerial Transition (2)
- Mother's Day (15)
- Mourning (5)
- Music Sunday (1)
- National Coming Out Day (4)
- New Child (6)
- New Home (2)
- New Year (10)
- Ordinations (7)
- Palm Sunday (2)
- Partner Church Observation (3)
- Passover (Pesach) (4)
- Pentecost (1)
- Prayer Practices (7)
- Pride Sunday (10)
- Quinceañera (1)
- Remembrance Day (7)
- Rosh Hashanah (4)
- Samhain (2)
- Summer Solstice (8)
- Table Grace (7)
- Teacher Dedication (1)
- Teacher Recognition (1)
- Thanksgiving (13)
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (5)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (2)
- United Nations Day (3)
- Valentine's Day (2)
- Vernal Equinox (14)
- Veterans Day (10)
- Water Communion (4)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (2)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (26)
- Yom Kippur (4)
- Youth Sunday (2)
- Abundance (17)
- Acceptance (25)
- Activism (8)
- America (11)
- Anger (1)
- Animals (5)
- Anti-Oppression (19)
- Arrogance (1)
- Arts & Music (3)
- Authority (1)
- Awe (26)
- Balance (8)
- Beauty (19)
- Beginnings (16)
- Belief (3)
- Birth (12)
- Body (15)
- Bridging (1)
- Brokenness (19)
- Calling (5)
- Caring (11)
- Challenge (9)
- Change (8)
- Character (5)
- Children (39)
- Choice (5)
- Class (1)
- Coming-of-Age (3)
- Commitment (16)
- Community (47)
- Compassion (23)
- Conflict (5)
- Connections (30)
- Conscience (4)
- Contemplation (12)
- Courage (30)
- Creativity (10)
- Credo (1)
- Death (25)
- Democracy (3)
- Depression (1)
- Despair (16)
- Dignity (3)
- Disaster (5)
- Discernment (6)
- Diversity (11)
- Division (2)
- Doubt (3)
- Earth (44)
- Education (4)
- Empathy (4)
- Ending (8)
- Environment (4)
- Equity (1)
- Ethics (1)
- Failure (2)
- Faith (20)
- Fall (3)
- Family (38)
- Fathers (20)
- Fear (7)
- Food (10)
- Forgiveness (12)
- Freedom (8)
- Friendship (13)
- Gender (5)
- Generations (30)
- Generosity (11)
- God (23)
- Goddess (2)
- Good (1)
- Grace (9)
- Gratitude (43)
- Grief (25)
- Growth (15)
- Happiness (4)
- Healing (29)
- Health (4)
- History (9)
- Home (9)
- Honesty (4)
- Hope (41)
- Hospitality (9)
- Human Rights (4)
- Humility (9)
- Identity (10)
- Illness (1)
- Imagination (8)
- Immanence (6)
- Immigration (2)
- Inclusion (10)
- Individualism (3)
- Integrity (10)
- Interdependence (17)
- Intimacy (3)
- Journey (17)
- Joy (14)
- Justice (24)
- Kindness (5)
- Leadership (6)
- Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (14)
- Letting Go (10)
- Limitations (1)
- Listening (9)
- Living Our Faith (8)
- Love (63)
- Marriage (1)
- Meaning (3)
- Men (5)
- Military (7)
- Mindfulness (3)
- Ministry (5)
- Mothers (14)
- Multiculturalism (6)
- Mystery (15)
- Nature (54)
- Nonviolence (3)
- Oppression (4)
- Pain (5)
- Parents (23)
- Patience (6)
- Peace (30)
- Playfulness (5)
- Politics (2)
- Poverty (3)
- Power (7)
- Presence (11)
- Privilege (3)
- Purpose (13)
- Race/Ethnicity (5)
- Reason (1)
- Reconciliation (4)
- Redemption (3)
- Relationships (29)
- Religion (2)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (17)
- Revelation (4)
- Reverence (14)
- Sacred (9)
- Sacrifice (6)
- Sadness (1)
- Salvation (5)
- Science (3)
- Searching (18)
- Self-Care (3)
- Self-Respect (4)
- Service (16)
- Sexuality (3)
- Shadow (1)
- Silence (5)
- Simplicity (1)
- Solidarity (11)
- Solitude (1)
- Sorrow (6)
- Spirituality (10)
- Spiritual Practice (9)
- Spring (8)
- Stewardship (5)
- Strength (13)
- Stress (1)
- Suffering (7)
- Teamwork (3)
- Terrorism (4)
- Tradition (10)
- Transcendence (14)
- Transformation (20)
- Trauma (3)
- Trust (7)
- Truth (3)
- Unity (8)
- Violence (8)
- Vision (6)
- Vulnerability (10)
- War (14)
- Wholeness (9)
- Winter (9)
- Wisdom (7)
- Wonder (15)
- Work (3)
- Worry (2)
- Worth (1)
- Young Adults (4)
- Youth/Teens (6)
- Aaron Payson (1)
- Aaron Stockwell Wisman (1)
- Addae Ama Kraba (3)
- AJ van Tine (1)
- Alex Haider-Winnett (1)
- Alex Swift (1)
- Alice Anacheka-Nasemann (1)
- Alison Miller (1)
- Alix Klingenberg (1)
- Alyson Jacks (1)
- Amy Johnson (1)
- Amy Jones (1)
- Amy Petrie Shaw (2)
- Amy Williams Clark (1)
- Amy Young (1)
- Amy Zucker Morgenstern (2)
- Andrea Hawkins-Kamper (2)
- Andrée Mol (1)
- Andrew M Hill (3)
- Angela Herrera (1)
- Anne Barker (1)
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- Anonymous (3)
- Anya Sammler-Michael (1)
- Aoife Barrington-Haber (1)
- Audette Fulbright Fulson (3)
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- Christine Robinson (4)
- Christin Green (1)
- Christopher Buice (1)
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- Claudene (Deane) Oliva (1)
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- Connie Simon (1)
- Cricket Hall (2)
- Cynthia Frado (2)
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- Dana E Worsnop (1)
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- David M. Horst (3)
- David O. Rankin (3)
- David Snedden (1)
- Deborah Weiner (1)
- Debra Haffner (2)
- Debra Smith (1)
- Donna Morrison-Reed (1)
- Dori J. Somers (1)
- Douglas Taylor (2)
- Edward Harris (1)
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- Elizabeth L Greene (1)
- Elizabeth Mount (1)
- Elizabeth M Strong (4)
- Emmy Lou Belcher (1)
- Erica Baron (1)
- Eric Cherry (3)
- Eric Williams (2)
- Erika Hewitt (1)
- Evin Carvill Ziemer (2)
- Fr. Austin Fleming (1)
- Gary Kowalski (15)
- George A Tyger (7)
- Gordon B McKeeman (1)
- Gwen Matthews (1)
- Heather K Janules (1)
- HP Rivers (1)
- Israel Buffardi (1)
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- Janet H. Bowering (1)
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- Kathleen Green (1)
- Kathleen McTigue (3)
- Kathleen Rolenz (6)
- Katie Kandarian-Morris (3)
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- Keith Kron (1)
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- Laura Conkle (1)
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- Leslie Takahashi (3)
- Lindasusan Ulrich (2)
- Lindsay Bates (1)
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- Michael DeVernon Boblett (2)
- Michelle Buhite (1)
- Molly Housh Gordon (1)
- Myke Johnson (1)
- Nancy Shaffer (3)
- Naomi King (2)
- Natalie Maxwell Fenimore (1)
- Nica Eaton-Guinn (1)
- Norbert Fabian Capek (3)
- Patricia Shelden (1)
- Paul Oakley (1)
- Paul R Beedle (2)
- Paul S Sawyer (2)
- Peter Morales (1)
- Quinn G. Caldwell (1)
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Prayers to be said on the four Sundays of Advent while lighting the Advent candle wreath.Prayer | By Elizabeth Mount | March 29, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christianity, Hope, Joy, Love, Patience, Peace, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Let this year be a clean slate for new beginnings.Prayer | By Addae Ama Kraba | March 29, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beginnings, Courage, Creativity, Empathy, New Year, Peace, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Spirit of the divine masculine, grant us the strength to nurture in ourselves, and in every young person we have the privilege to know, the gifts of patience, curiosity, and compassion.Prayer | By AJ van Tine | February 29, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Children, Coming of Age, Coming-of-Age, Community, Gender, Growth, Identity, Youth/Teens, WorshipWeb, Worship
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As we repent in full body and form, secure our names and the generations to come as you have done through time. God who blessed the womb of life, save us once again.Prayer | By Julie Yeeun Kim | January 21, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christianity, Faith, Generations, Interdependence, Patience, Redemption, Salvation, Wisdom, WorshipWeb, Worship
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In this heartbreak what we carry forth is our humanity in newly revealed form—our hearts tender and delicate.Prayer | By Vanessa Titang | December 12, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Community, Compassion, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Healing, Trauma, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We pray for those with power to create peacePrayer | By Lara Cowtan | November 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Peace, Violence, War
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May you be tender and gentle with yourselfPrayer | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | September 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Love, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Stress, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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By giving your church home here a chance to bless your school supplies, you're carrying their good intentions with you when you go to school.Blessing | By Tiffany Sapp | August 4, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Backpack Blessing, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we view each other as partners, comrades, friends on the journeyPrayer | By Christin Green | August 1, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Business Meetings, Community, Living Our Faith, Purpose, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we remember that we each carry inside of us a spark of the Divine.Blessing | By Beth Monhollen | July 24, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Beginnings, Grace, New Year, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We hold space for all that Father's Day may mean to us.Prayer | By Amy Jones | April 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Children, Father's Day, Fathers, Parents, WorshipWeb, 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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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 open our hearts to the abundance of creation.Prayer | By Vanessa Rush Southern, Alyson Jacks | August 8, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Connections, Earth Day, Easter, Hope, Joy, Vernal Equinox, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We bless today all the masculinities with us and within us.Blessing | By Kye Flannery | June 9, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Father's Day, Fathers, Freedom, Gender, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Men, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Hold us gently as we gather closer together, comforting each other, healing each other.Prayer | By Vanessa Titang | May 26, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Disaster or Crisis, Transcendence, 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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Out of mystery we are born, and mystery receives us when we die.Blessing | By Michelle Buhite | March 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Death, Ending, Memorial Services, Mystery, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Sing in our hearts all the stirrings of compassion for the oppressed, for those who are scared and hurting.Prayer | By Nica Eaton-Guinn | March 10, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Disaster or Crisis, Justice, Living Our Faith, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Worship