{"id":30462,"date":"2025-06-17T08:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=30462"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:54:13","slug":"the-flower-communion-a-tradition-of-resistance-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-flower-communion-a-tradition-of-resistance-and-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flower Communion: A Tradition of Resistance and Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 years ago, Czech Unitarian ministers Norbert and Maja \u010capek created the Flower Celebration to honor the values of community and diversity. Today we celebrate this beloved annual tradition at UUFSCC, both in person and online. In-person participants, please bring a cut flower to share if you can (but we&#8217;ll have extras), and you&#8217;ll get to take another one home. Zoom participants, we have a special blessing planned for you too.<\/p>\n<p>Minister:\u00a0 Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig (in person)<br \/>\nWorship Associate: Carolyn Johnson-Gutter<\/p>\n<p>To view this service, click on the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Flower Communion: A Tradition of Resistance and Beauty,&quot; led by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ikPAAIXyEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 years ago, Czech Unitarian ministers Norbert and Maja \u010capek created the Flower Celebration to honor the values of community and diversity. Today we celebrate this beloved annual tradition at UUFSCC, both in person and online. In-person participants, please bring a cut flower to share if you can (but we&#8217;ll have extras), and you&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-flower-communion-a-tradition-of-resistance-and-beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Flower Communion: A Tradition of Resistance and Beauty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-30462","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30510,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30462\/revisions\/30510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=30462"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=30462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}