Join us this Sunday for flower communion. Please bring a flower (or two or three) to share. If you are new to Unitarian Universalism, you are about to experience a ritual unique to our faith.
Welcome!
We are always delighted to welcome guests! If this is your first time visiting a Unitarian Universalist church or our congregation, here’s some idea of what to expect.
Order of Service
- Prelude
- Ring Tibetan Bowl
- Opening Hymn: STLT #21, For the Beauty of the Earth
- Welcome
- Chalice Lighting: Alice Berry
- The Story of Flower Communion: Reginald Zottoli
- Flower Procession
- Consecration of the Flowers
- Reflections on Community, Honoring the Ohlone
- Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
- Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker
- Reading: “A Bouquet of People”, Claire Feingold Thoryn
- Hymn: #396, I Know This Rose Will Open
- Flower Communion Ceremony
- The Communion Prayer
- Hymn: Doxology for Flower Communion
- Offertory
- Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive
- Announcements
- Children’s Song: “I Like the Flowers” (Choir with KIds)
- Benediction
- Extinguishing the Chalice
- Invitation and Final Wave
- Postlude