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 (33)
- All Saints Day (3)
- All Souls Day (7)
- Animal Blessing (5)
- Animal Memorial (2)
- Autumnal Equinox (5)
- Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb (15)
- Bridging Ceremony (2)
- Building/Space Dedication (4)
- Business Meetings (3)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Child Dedication (9)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (3)
- Children's Sabbath (2)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (35)
- Coming of Age (4)
- Coming Out (12)
- Communion (Christian) (1)
- Día de los Muertos (5)
- Disaster or Crisis (16)
- Diwali (1)
- Earth Day (32)
- Easter (21)
- Father's Day (7)
- Fire Communion (2)
- Flower Communion (3)
- Gender / Sex Change (1)
- Good Friday (5)
- Halloween (1)
- Hanukkah (4)
- Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (6)
- IllUUmination (1)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (4)
- Installations (7)
- July 4th (3)
- Juneteenth (7)
- Justice Sunday (5)
- Kwanzaa (1)
- Labor Day (3)
- Lent (9)
- Life Transition (3)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (12)
- Meditation Practices (1)
- Memorial Day (3)
- Memorial Services (10)
- Military Service (1)
- Ministerial Transition (1)
- Mother's Day (14)
- Music Sunday (2)
- National Coming Out Day (5)
- New Child (4)
- New Member Ceremony (6)
- New Year (9)
- Ordinations (7)
- Passover (Pesach) (3)
- Prayer Practices (2)
- Pride Sunday (23)
- Ramadan (1)
- Remembrance Day (5)
- Rosh Hashanah (2)
- Samhain (3)
- Sukkot (1)
- Summer Solstice (4)
- Table Grace (3)
- Teacher Dedication (3)
- Teacher Recognition (1)
- Thanksgiving (10)
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (3)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (2)
- United Nations Day (1)
- Valentine's Day (5)
- Vernal Equinox (6)
- Veterans Day (1)
- Water Communion (8)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (2)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (15)
- Yom Kippur (3)
- Youth Sunday (1)
- Abundance (6)
- Acceptance (13)
- Activism (15)
- Aging (4)
- America (19)
- Anger (2)
- Animals (19)
- Anti-Oppression (55)
- Arts & Music (5)
- Authority (1)
- Awe (24)
- Balance (9)
- Beauty (17)
- Beginnings (9)
- Belief (1)
- Birth (4)
- Body (12)
- Brokenness (15)
- Calling (6)
- Caring (13)
- Challenge (3)
- Change (10)
- Character (3)
- Children (34)
- Choice (9)
- Coming-of-Age (3)
- Commitment (18)
- Community (32)
- Compassion (13)
- Conflict (2)
- Connections (23)
- Conscience (1)
- Contemplation (9)
- Courage (12)
- Covenant (4)
- Creativity (3)
- Death (17)
- Democracy (3)
- Despair (11)
- Dignity (4)
- Disability (2)
- Disaster (2)
- Discernment (8)
- Diversity (8)
- Doubt (3)
- Earth (43)
- Economy (1)
- Education (1)
- Empathy (6)
- Ending (3)
- Environment (6)
- Equity (1)
- Ethics (2)
- Evil (1)
- Failure (2)
- Faith (10)
- Fall (1)
- Family (29)
- Fathers (11)
- Fear (8)
- Food (9)
- Forgiveness (9)
- Freedom (9)
- Friendship (4)
- Gender (6)
- Generations (30)
- Generosity (2)
- Globalism (1)
- God (14)
- Goddess (2)
- Good (1)
- Grace (5)
- Gratitude (11)
- Grief (19)
- Growth (11)
- Happiness (1)
- Healing (18)
- History (25)
- Home (2)
- Honesty (1)
- Hope (29)
- Hospitality (3)
- Human Rights (3)
- Humility (6)
- Identity (24)
- Illness (1)
- Imagination (6)
- Immanence (2)
- Immigration (2)
- Inclusion (10)
- Integrity (13)
- Interdependence (32)
- Intimacy (3)
- Journey (6)
- Joy (5)
- Justice (25)
- Kindness (1)
- Leadership (9)
- Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer (30)
- Letting Go (9)
- Limitations (5)
- Living Our Faith (13)
- Love (43)
- Marriage (2)
- Meaning (5)
- Military (2)
- Mindfulness (1)
- Ministry (3)
- Money (2)
- Mothers (15)
- Multiculturalism (14)
- Mystery (12)
- Nature (46)
- Oppression (7)
- Pain (7)
- Parents (23)
- Patience (7)
- Peace (6)
- Playfulness (3)
- Politics (1)
- Power (8)
- Presence (8)
- Privilege (7)
- Progress (2)
- Psychology (1)
- Purpose (14)
- Race/Ethnicity (25)
- Reconciliation (2)
- Redemption (4)
- Relationships (38)
- Religion (1)
- Respect (3)
- Responsibility (22)
- Revelation (1)
- Reverence (2)
- Sacred (12)
- Sacrifice (2)
- Sadness (1)
- Salvation (4)
- Science (1)
- Searching (10)
- Self-Care (6)
- Self-Respect (11)
- Service (9)
- Sexuality (5)
- Shadow (1)
- Shame (1)
- Silence (2)
- Simplicity (1)
- Solidarity (19)
- Sorrow (3)
- Spirituality (8)
- Spiritual Practice (16)
- Spring (3)
- Stewardship (6)
- Strength (6)
- Stress (2)
- Suffering (2)
- Summer (1)
- Teamwork (1)
- Tradition (11)
- Transcendence (3)
- Transformation (15)
- Trauma (2)
- Trust (9)
- Truth (5)
- Unity (7)
- Violence (4)
- Vision (5)
- Vulnerability (6)
- War (1)
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- Wholeness (9)
- Winter (5)
- Wisdom (3)
- Women (2)
- Wonder (21)
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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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If you have come here tonight on Rosh Hashanah and feel that there is nothing to examine, no wound in your life to heal, no relationship to repair—then I hope you will listen especially closely to the shofar.Quote | By Angela Buchdahl | April 4, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Grief, Healing, Judaism, Reconciliation, Rosh Hashanah, WorshipWeb, Worship
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There in the deep sack of night, a tiny Hope was born.Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | March 29, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Birth, Earth-Centered, Hope, Joy, Love, Peace, Sacred, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, 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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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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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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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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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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Welcome abundance, welcome prosperity, welcome love, and welcome light.Responsive Reading | By Michael J. Tino | October 10, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Diwali, Goddess, Hinduism, Multiculturalism, 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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In our lived lives, family comes in different shapes and sizes and constellations.It is in this variety—this diversity—that our lives are made fuller and our individual selves made more whole. It is in this variety, it is in this diversity, that we look back to the ancestors, recognizing no...Reading | By Karen G. Johnston | August 17, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Family, Generations, Integrity, Love, Memorial Services, Truth, WorshipWeb, 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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Is a calling a feeling of joy, of completeness in your work?Reading | By Megan Foley | May 22, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Leadership, Ordinations, Unitarian Universalism, 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