We’ll celebrate spring and renewal with a traditional Unitarian Universalist ceremony that was created by two Unitarian ministers. Rev. Maja Capek and Rev. Norbert Capek (who were married) founded the Unitarian ministry in Czechoslovakia. She escaped arrest by the Nazis in the 1930s and brought the ceremony to the United States. Her husband died at … Continue reading The UU Flower Ceremony
We celebrate life on our planet this Sunday, and especially renewal and springtime, with a traditional Unitarian Universalist ceremony. Rev. Norbert Capek, who founded the Unitarian ministry in Czechoslovakia, created the ceremony with his wife, Rev. Maja Capek. She escaped arrest by the Nazis and brought the ceremony to the United States in the 1930s. … Continue reading The UU Flower Ceremony
The Unitarian Universalist Flower Ceremony is sometimes referred to as the Flower Communion or the Flower Festival. “We remember people through flowers, volunteer service leader Connie Ussery says. Norbert Capek, a Unitarian minister in Prague, Czechoslovakia, created the ritual in 1923. His wife, the Rev. Maya Capek, brought it to the United States. (Norbert Capek died … Continue reading Connie Ussery leads the Flower Ceremony
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 … Continue reading The UU Flower Ceremony
