Flower Communion is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalism, though the specific practices vary from one congregation to another. It is usually held before summer, when some congregations recess from holding services.
Read more about Flower Communion: History, A Sample Flower Communion, Symbolism
Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or communion:
“Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)