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Flower Communion
Flower Communion is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalism, though the specific practices vary from one congregation to another.〔, by Reginald Zottoli〕 It is usually held before summer, when some congregations recess from holding services. During the ritual, congregants contribute flowers to a central location, and later the flowers are distributed among the participants.
==History==
The Flower Celebration was initiated in Prague on 4 June 1923 by Norbert Čapek, who was also the founder of the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. He saw the need to unite the diverse congregants of his church, from varying Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds, without alienating those who had left these traditions. For this reason he honored the universal beauty of nature by having a communion of flowers instead of the Eucharist. Though Unitarian Universalists often refer to the ritual as a Flower Ceremony, Festival, or Communion, Čapek's term "Oslava Květin" is more accurately translated as "Flower Celebration," a term which continues to be preferred by Czech Unitarians today.〔("Fragile and Rooted" ), by Joan Van Becelaere, ''CLF Quest'', June 2002〕
The ritual was brought to the United States in 1940 by the Rev. Maja Čapek, Norbert's wife,〔〔 and was widely adopted by the American Unitarian churches, and their successor Unitarian Universalist congregations.〔 Earlier Unitarian "Flower Services," documented in Midwestern U.S. Unitarian congregations beginning circa 1880, were somewhat different in form from Čapek's service.
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