{"id":1887,"date":"2019-01-14T10:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/?page_id=1887"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:23:29","slug":"flower-ceremony-draft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/flower-ceremony-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Flower Ceremony, sometimes referred to as Flower Communion or Flower Festival, is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Capek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Flower Ceremony was introduced to the United States by Rev. Maya Capek, Norbert&#8217;s widow.<\/p>\n<p>In this ceremony,\u00a0 which we hold in the spring,\u00a0 everyone in the congregation brings a flower. Each person places a flower on the altar or in a shared vase. The congregation and minister bless the flowers, and they&#8217;re redistributed. Each person brings home a different flower than the one they brought.\u00a0 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>For more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/worship\/holidays\/flower-ceremony\">UUA Flower Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By exchanging flowers, we show our willingness to walk together in our Search for truth, disregarding all that might divide us. Each person takes home a flower brought by someone else &#8211; thus symbolizing our shared celebration in community. This communion of sharing is essential to a free people of a free religion. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/sites\/live-new.uua.org\/files\/documents\/zottolireginald\/flowercommunion.pdf\">Source: Unitarian Universalist Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flower Ceremony, sometimes referred to as Flower Communion or Flower Festival, is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community.&#8221; Originally created in 1923 by Unitarian minister Norbert Capek of Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Flower Ceremony was introduced to the United States by Rev. Maya Capek, Norbert&#8217;s widow. In this ceremony,\u00a0 which we hold in the spring,\u00a0 everyone in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2469,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1887","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1887\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}