Online Service – Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today

Those words are borrowed from a poem by Robert Frost. For our service this last week in May, we are doing a modified version of an annual celebration – the Flower Festival. Some of you may be used to calling it the Flower Ceremony or Flower Celebration, but the man who held the first such flower ceremony preferred to call it Flower Festival. That man, of course, was Unitarian Minister Norbert Capek. If you watched last week’s service, you may remember that Capek held the first Flower Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in the early 1920s. Although we won’t actually be exchanging flowers this year, we will still be able to celebrate not only the beauty of flowers, but the concept of beauty, in general.