Unitarian Universalist Water Ceremonies are Happening all over the World
For the service on Sunday, September 14, please bring a small sample of water from wherever you go on your travels this summer. We will have a Water Ceremony at our service on September 14 and at that time, everyone will deposit their sample in a collective vase.
Originally called the Water Communion, the Water Ceremony was originally held at UU churches/fellowships in the 1980s. Members bring to the service a small amount of water from a place that is special to them. People one by one pour their water together into a large bowl. As the water is added the person who brought it tells why this water is special to them. The combined water is symbolic of our shared faith coming from many different sources. It is often then blessed by the congregation, and sometimes is later boiled and used as the congregation’s “holy water” in child dedication ceremonies and similar events.
If you can’t collect a sample of water from your special place, please bring some water from home, and rename it as though it did come from your special place.
Grace Dreyer