The Unitarian Universalist Flower Communion was first celebrated in 1923 by Dr. Norbert Čapek, who founded the modern Unitarian movement in Czechoslovakia. He was inspired one day by the riot of spring around him, and he asked church members to each bring in a flower. Gathered together, the flowers remind us, “These flowers are like ourselves. Different colors and different shapes, and different sizes, each needing different kinds of care—but each beautiful, each important and special, in its own way.”

In the spirit of our living tradition, UUP has created an internet-based version of the ritual for this year’s ceremony. Please join us in exploring, “What do I bring across the threshold into UUP? What do I take with me from UUP back across the threshold into my daily life?”

If you can, please have two flowers in front you for the ceremony. If you don’t have actual flowers available, then drawings or pictures or other representations will be fine, or you can create a flower in your mind. We will also be showing flowers on the screen, submitted by UUP members, and you can use those for inspiration and ritual, too.

We will send out the link to the viewing gathering via email. (Sign up for our email list.) Afterward, the service will be available on our website.

Worship Leader: Lisa Nosal
Musicians: Will Johnson & BE Lundy
Video Editor: Andrew Richardson

Topics: Community, Flower Communion, Monthly Worship Themes 2019-2020, Thresholds