Ceremonies in Unitarian Universalism:
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- Advent (9)
- All Souls Day (1)
- Animal Memorial (1)
- Autumnal Equinox (1)
- Backpack Blessing (2)
- Bridging Ceremony (2)
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- Business Meetings (1)
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- Child Dedication (3)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (1)
- Children's Sabbath (1)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (5)
- Communion (Christian) (5)
- Community Ministry Sunday (1)
- Disaster or Crisis (4)
- Earth Day (1)
- Fire Communion (3)
- Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (3)
- Installations (1)
- Life Transition (3)
- Memorial Services (3)
- Ministerial Transition (6)
- Mother's Day (2)
- Mourning (1)
- Naming Ceremony (1)
- New Member Ceremony (4)
- New Year (4)
- Partner Church Observation (1)
- Quinceañera (2)
- Remembrance Day (2)
- Samhain (1)
- Summer Solstice (1)
- Teacher Dedication (1)
- Teacher Recognition (3)
- Thanksgiving (3)
- Valentine's Day (1)
- Vernal Equinox (1)
- Water Communion (6)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (1)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (1)
- Yom Kippur (1)
- Abundance (9)
- Acceptance (3)
- Aging (1)
- America (1)
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- Change (3)
- Children (13)
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- Commitment (13)
- Community (19)
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- Courage (1)
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- Earth (6)
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- Ending (11)
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- Young Adults (1)
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- Alex Haider-Winnett (1)
- Alice Anacheka-Nasemann (1)
- Alison Crotty (1)
- Amy Brooks (1)
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- Andrew Weber (1)
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- Elizabeth Harding (2)
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- Eric Kaminetzky (1)
- Eric Williams (1)
- Erika Hewitt (9)
- Erik Walker Wikstrom (2)
- Frances Koziar (1)
- Gary Kowalski (1)
- Heather Christensen (1)
- Jay E Abernathy, Jr (1)
- Jaynn Truran (1)
- Jessica Lin (1)
- Joan Kahn-Schneider (1)
- John Marsh (1)
- John Saxon (3)
- Judy Welles (2)
- Julia Hamilton (1)
- Karen G. Johnston (2)
- Karen J Hirsch (1)
- Kate Howard (1)
- Kate Landis (1)
- Katie Romano Griffin (1)
- Kayla Parker (1)
- Kayle Rice (1)
- Kendyl L. R. Gibbons (2)
- Kenneth Claus (3)
- Kim Wildszewski (1)
- Kristin Collins (1)
- Laura Bogle (1)
- Laura Randall (1)
- Lauren Wyeth (1)
- Lena K. Gardner (1)
- Lindsay Bennett-Jacobs (1)
- Liz Benjamin (1)
- Liz Jones (1)
- Liz Weber (1)
- Lois Van Leer (1)
- Lyn Cox (2)
- Lynn Gardner (1)
- Mandie McGlynn (1)
- Manish Mishra-Marzetti (1)
- Marci Beaudoin (1)
- Margy Levine Young (1)
- Marian Stewart (1)
- Mark Stringer (1)
- Mary Gear (1)
- Mary Wellemeyer (1)
- Megan Visser (1)
- Melanie Morel-Ensminger (2)
- Michael Hall (1)
- Michael J. Tino (1)
- Michelle Buhite (1)
- Nancy Jasa (1)
- Naomi King (1)
- Paul R Beedle (1)
- Rosemary Morrison (1)
- Sandy Hoyt (1)
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- Sarah Roberts (1)
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- Scott Phillips (1)
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- Sheri Prud'homme (1)
- Susan Frances (1)
- Susan Frederick-Gray (1)
- Suzanne Reitz (1)
- Tania Márquez (1)
- Teresa Honey Youngblood (1)
- Tess Baumberger (5)
- Thomas Rhodes (1)
- Tony Lorenzen (1)
- Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council (1)
- Victoria Weinstein (6)
- Wendy Bartel (1)
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We are the recipients of an incredible gift and a beautiful vision.Offering | By Alice Anacheka-Nasemann | December 12, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: All Souls Day, Building/Space Dedication, Canvass/Pledge, Commitment, Generations, Gratitude, History, Homecoming / Ingathering, Humanism, Leadership, New Member Ceremony, Samhain, Vision, WorshipWeb, Worship
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A script for commissioning an affiliated community minister.Ritual | By Elizabeth Harding, Susan Frances, Eileen Wiviott | November 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community Ministry Sunday, Covenant, Leadership, Ministry, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Let us bless these candles with our tender hopes for the coming year.Ritual | By SarahRuth Davis | May 10, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christmas Eve / Christmas, Presence, Spirituality, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Today we celebrate the new name that reflects a truth long-hidden, now revealed.Ritual | By Karen G. Johnston | March 9, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Caring, Identity, Inclusion, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Life Transition, Naming Ceremony, Self-Respect, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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The circle of evergreens reminds us that life and love will never end.Ritual | By Rosemary Morrison | January 26, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christianity, Hope, Joy, Love, Peace, Spiritual Practice
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We give thanks to the Sacred, woven in and among us, for the teachers, youth advisors, youth mentors, and parents in our community.Ritual | By Elizabeth Harding | October 17, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Children, Family, Leadership, Relationships, Teacher Recognition
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May you feel the freedom to stretch fully into your most true self.Ritual | By Kim Wildszewski | July 20, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Gender, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Self-Respect, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Your contributions are a tangible commitment to the mission and vision of this congregation.Offering | By Elizabeth Murphy | June 2, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Stewardship
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We scatter these remains to the earth returning creation unto itself.Ritual | By Marian Stewart | May 28, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Death, Memorial Services, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Now is the time for our financial offering. [Particular donation info, e.g. Donations can be made directly into the baskets being passed around, or online through our website, by mail, or by email. If you donate to the loose collection, then half of your donation will go to the congregation while...Offering | By Frances Koziar | January 13, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Class, Diversity, Money, Stewardship, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we know that the infinite web of life and love holds us all and holds all the stories.Ritual | By Mary Gear | October 18, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, Brokenness, Death, Grief, Healing, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May you know that your care is powerful.Ritual | By Liz Weber | May 11, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Friendship, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Writing in a book—a hardback book! with pen!—goes against everything we’ve been taught, but now is the time to do it.Ritual | By Margy Levine Young | March 18, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Gender, Inclusion, Prophetic Words & Deeds, WorshipWeb, Worship
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I am afraid and exhausted from the constant fear. I don’t know who to trust for information about the virus.Ritual | By Kate Landis | March 16, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, Brokenness, Death, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Healing, Hope, Secular, Solidarity, WorshipWeb, Worship
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You are sacred, and that energy runs through your hands, through the hands of all Unitarian Universalists. You are part of that interdependent network.Ritual | By Austen Petersen | September 10, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, Backpack Blessing, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Let’s breathe and remember that it is not the device that has value; the value is found in the connections which the device allows us to sustain.Ritual | By Dayna Edwards | August 30, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Backpack Blessing, Beginnings, Secular
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Minister: At this time, we would like to introduce a special ritual. The holidays can be an especially poignant time of year. Alongside the joy in these present moments, we may recall fond memories of past celebrations with our loved ones....Ritual | By Shari Woodbury | May 5, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Connections, Direct Experience, Family, Grief, Spiritual Practice
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is real for all of us, whether we are touched by it directly or indirectly. Some of us know people who have the virus, and its impact is getting closer as we learn of second cousins and friends of friends who have died of COVID-19....Ritual | By Cathy Rion Starr | April 28, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, Grief, Work
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Today we kick off Religious Education classes with [over number registered] children and youth in our congregation. [Number of volunteers] adult volunteers carry the sacred privilege and responsibility of journeying beside them on our behalf....Ritual | By Lauren Wyeth | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Community, Education, Leadership, Service, Teacher Dedication, Teacher Recognition, Teamwork, Unitarian Universalism, Youth/Teens
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This ritual begins by lighting a candle from the chalice, and placing it in position. A list of supplies is at the end of this resource. One: Fire. Source of warmth and life for our ancestors; and for humans still today....Ritual | By Amy Brooks | January 3, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Climate Justice, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Earth, Fear, Grief, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism