The Unitarian Universalist Flower Ceremony is sometimes referred to as the Flower Communion or the Flower Festival. The ceremony is simple. We celebrate, with flowers, life on planet earth and especially rebirth and springtime. Everyone brings a flower to the service—from a garden, the woods, the roadside, wherever. We place them in vases. After the service everyone leaves with a flower.

Norbert and Maja Capek (pictured), founded the Unitarian church in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Rev. Norbert Capek is credited with creating the ritual in 1923. Rev. Maya Cape brought it to the United States. (Norbert Capek died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.) We’ll celebrate their lives on this Sunday. You can learn more about the UU Flower Ceremony ceremony here.

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