Unitarian Universalists honor and celebrate a wide range of holidays and occasions over the course of a year. Unlike other faith traditions that use a single lectionary (a collection of scripture readings appointed for a given day or occasion), the topics and themes for Unitarian Universalist worship services are usually chosen independently by worship leaders in congregations. These include unique UU traditions, like the Flower Ceremony, as well as holidays from other faith traditions, such as Christmas or Beltane.
View and download the 2023-24 UUA Worship Calendar (PDF), which includes faith-based and secular holidays that UU congregations often celebrate. The calendar also includes monthly worship themes used in popular theme-based ministry programs. To download or print, follow the link and use the File menu, then select the Landscape layout option.
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- Advent (4)
- All Saints Day (2)
- All Souls Day (3)
- Animal Blessing (9)
- Animal Memorial (1)
- Autumnal Equinox (16)
- Bridging Ceremony (1)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Child Dedication (2)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (3)
- Children's Sabbath (3)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (3)
- Coming of Age (1)
- Communion (Christian) (3)
- Día de los Muertos (1)
- Disaster or Crisis (1)
- Earth Day (53)
- Easter (5)
- Fire Communion (1)
- Flower Communion (16)
- Halloween (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (7)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (7)
- Indigenous Peoples Day (1)
- Installations (1)
- July 4th (2)
- Lammas (1)
- Lent (1)
- May Day / Beltane (1)
- Meditation Practices (2)
- Memorial Services (2)
- New Child (3)
- New Member Ceremony (1)
- New Year (1)
- Ordinations (1)
- Passover (Pesach) (1)
- Prayer Practices (3)
- Remembrance Day (2)
- Rosh Hashanah (1)
- Samhain (2)
- Summer Solstice (10)
- Table Grace (1)
- Thanksgiving (3)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (1)
- Vernal Equinox (23)
- Water Communion (23)
- Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies (1)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (15)
- Youth Sunday (1)
- Abundance (10)
- Acceptance (5)
- Activism (2)
- America (1)
- Animals (24)
- Anti-Oppression (2)
- Awe (30)
- Balance (8)
- Beauty (25)
- Beginnings (6)
- Belief (1)
- Birth (2)
- Body (11)
- Brokenness (1)
- Calling (1)
- Caring (4)
- Change (6)
- Children (5)
- Commitment (4)
- Community (15)
- Compassion (3)
- Connections (17)
- Contemplation (7)
- Courage (2)
- Covenant (1)
- Creativity (2)
- Death (5)
- Despair (5)
- Disaster (1)
- Discernment (1)
- Diversity (2)
- Earth (105)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (8)
- Ethics (1)
- Faith (2)
- Fall (2)
- Family (4)
- Fear (1)
- Food (5)
- Forgiveness (1)
- Freedom (2)
- Friendship (4)
- Generations (5)
- Generosity (2)
- Globalism (2)
- God (5)
- Goddess (1)
- Good (1)
- Grace (4)
- Gratitude (13)
- Grief (2)
- Growth (9)
- Happiness (2)
- Healing (4)
- Health (1)
- History (1)
- Home (2)
- Honesty (1)
- Hope (11)
- Hospitality (1)
- Humility (5)
- Identity (1)
- Imagination (16)
- Immanence (2)
- Inclusion (1)
- Individualism (1)
- Interdependence (25)
- Intimacy (2)
- Journey (3)
- Joy (2)
- Justice (2)
- Leadership (1)
- Letting Go (4)
- Limitations (1)
- Listening (3)
- Love (11)
- Meaning (3)
- Mindfulness (2)
- Mothers (1)
- Mystery (4)
- Pain (2)
- Parents (1)
- Patience (3)
- Peace (2)
- Playfulness (3)
- Power (2)
- Presence (4)
- Purpose (1)
- Relationships (11)
- Responsibility (17)
- Revelation (4)
- Reverence (10)
- Sacred (8)
- Sacrifice (2)
- Salvation (2)
- Science (4)
- Searching (7)
- Self-Care (1)
- Self-Respect (2)
- Shadow (1)
- Silence (1)
- Spirituality (4)
- Spiritual Practice (5)
- Spring (12)
- Stewardship (8)
- Strength (8)
- Summer (1)
- Tradition (3)
- Transcendence (6)
- Transformation (12)
- Trauma (2)
- Trust (2)
- Truth (2)
- Unity (3)
- Vision (1)
- Vulnerability (3)
- Wholeness (3)
- Winter (10)
- Wisdom (5)
- Women (1)
- Wonder (18)
- Work (1)
- (-) Nature (152)
- Aaron Stockwell Wisman (1)
- Adaku Utah (1)
- Alice Berry (1)
- Alix Klingenberg (1)
- Amy Zucker Morgenstern (3)
- Andrea Hawkins-Kamper (1)
- Andrew M Hill (1)
- Annie Foerster (1)
- Anonymous (1)
- Austin Putman (1)
- Barbara Rohde (2)
- Ben Soule (1)
- Burton D. Carley (1)
- Caitlin Cotter Coillberg (1)
- Carolyn Fisher (1)
- Christina Leone Tracy (1)
- Christine Robinson (2)
- Christine Slocum (1)
- Christopher Sims (1)
- Claire Feingold Thoryn (1)
- Claudene (Deane) Oliva (1)
- Cynthia Landrum (1)
- Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine (1)
- David Breeden (1)
- David Ensley (1)
- David M. Horst (2)
- David Snedden (1)
- Deborah Weiner (1)
- Diana Smith (2)
- Elizabeth Harding (1)
- Elizabeth Lerner Maclay (1)
- Elizabeth M Strong (2)
- Erica Baron (1)
- Eric Cherry (1)
- Eric Williams (2)
- Evin Carvill Ziemer (1)
- Florence Caplow (1)
- Gary Kowalski (3)
- George A Tyger (1)
- Gregory Pelley (1)
- Gretchen Haley (1)
- Hope Jahren (1)
- Ian W. Riddell (1)
- Irene Glasse (1)
- Jake Morrill (1)
- Jake Tidmore (1)
- Jamila Batchelder (2)
- Jason Shelton (1)
- Jay Wolin (1)
- JD Stillwater (1)
- JeKaren Olaoya (1)
- Jennifer Hundley-Batts (1)
- Jennifer Johnson (1)
- Jennifer McGlothin (1)
- Jennifer Pratt-Walter (4)
- John Daniel (1)
- John Robbins (1)
- Jo VonRue (1)
- Judith L Quarles (1)
- Julia Corbett-Hemeyer (1)
- Julia Hamilton (2)
- Karen G. Johnston (2)
- Kate McPhee (1)
- Kate R. Walker (1)
- Katherine A Jesch (1)
- Katie Kandarian-Morris (1)
- Katie Sivani Gelfand (2)
- Kenneth Claus (2)
- Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson (1)
- Kimberly Beyer-Nelson (1)
- Kristin Grassel Schmidt (1)
- Laura Bogle (1)
- Laura Evonne Steinman (1)
- Laura Horton-Ludwig (1)
- Laura Wallace (1)
- Leslie Takahashi (2)
- Lillian Nye (1)
- Lindasusan Ulrich (2)
- Lisa Doege (2)
- Lorelei Greenwood-Jones (2)
- Lori Gorgas Hlaban (1)
- Lyn Cox (3)
- Lynn Gardner (1)
- Lynn Harrison (1)
- Lynn Ungar (1)
- Mark Belletini (2)
- Martha Kirby Capo (2)
- Martina Thompson (1)
- Matt Alspaugh (1)
- Maureen Killoran (2)
- Meg Barnhouse (1)
- Mel Hoover (1)
- Melissa Jeter (1)
- Molly Housh Gordon (3)
- Myke Johnson (1)
- Nicole Janelle (1)
- Patrick DeSimio (1)
- Peggy Clarke (1)
- Ralph Yeager Roberts (1)
- Ranwa Hammamy (1)
- Rebecka Clement (1)
- Rebekah Savage (1)
- Richard S. Gilbert (2)
- Robert F Kaufmann (1)
- Rose Edington (1)
- Ruth E Gibson (1)
- Sarah Gettie McNeill (1)
- Sharon Delgadillo (1)
- Sharon Wylie (2)
- Stephanie Noble (1)
- Stephen M. Shick (6)
- Susan Karlson (1)
- Terasa Cooley (1)
- Tess Baumberger (1)
- Thomas Rhodes (2)
- Thomas Starr King (1)
- Tim Atkins (1)
- Tony Lorenzen (1)
- Viola Abbitt (1)
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Today, we are charged to remember. To know that as we live together in community, we are also in community with the silently singing lives in the vast congregation of the earth as well... Let us remember, and then act.Reading | By Irene Glasse, Rebekah Savage | April 24, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Nature, Sacred, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Crows found ways to adapt to our concrete forests but we have not yet found ways to make sure we are in balance with the rest of creation.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | April 17, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Worship
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It takes courage to bring our trust forward and invite another person to meet us there. This sometimes sure, often shaky, surrender is an opportunity to discover something deeper than the confines of our individual experience.Reading | By Adaku Utah | January 21, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Freedom, Growth, Interdependence, Nature, Relationships, Trust, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We light this chalice, here in the darkness of winter as we wait.Chalice Lighting | By JeKaren Olaoya | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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The fulcrum of the Earth tilts toward goodness and I will ride along…Reading | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Good, Nature, Transcendence, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Is it not a marvel?Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Animals, Awe, Body, Earth, Earth Day, Nature, Wonder
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I am singing/of the wonder of how roots/so love the buds they bid them grow...Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship
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The miracle of grace is available to us even when it has been left untended.Reflection | By Jennifer Hundley-Batts | May 3, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Food, Grace, Nature, Patience, Stewardship, Summer Solstice, Worship
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Remind me that life is magical and mysterious.Reflection | By JD Stillwater | April 19, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Stewardship, Wonder, Worship
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Beneath the crust of earth, seeds and bulbs lay in store.Meditation | By Jennifer Johnson | March 10, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Patience, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Winter, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Darkness is as important as light.Opening | By Jo VonRue | December 27, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Direct Experience, Imagination, Nature, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, Wonder, WorshipWeb, Worship
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One of the Goddess’s best friends was a cardinal—a bright red bird who loved to play with the Goddess and the Sun.Story | By Christina Leone Tracy | December 16, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Animals, Change, Earth, Earth-Centered, Ending, Faith, Friendship, Goddess, Imagination, Letting Go, Nature, Paganism, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
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As you go forth into this new phase of your life’s adventure...Blessing | By Julia Corbett-Hemeyer | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Installations, Leadership, Nature, Ordinations
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Breathe in us, with us, and through us as we gather—one in community.Invocation | By Kristin Grassel Schmidt | September 22, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Earth-Centered, Judaism, Nature, Rosh Hashanah, Unity, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Beneath the snow, life is bursting, preparing for the next season.Meditation | By Sharon Delgadillo | August 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, Nature, Secular, Spring, Vernal Equinox, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we reconnect to our life-giving, breath-freeing connectionPrayer | By Leslie Takahashi | May 1, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, Climate Justice, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Water sustains, gives, and yields to / Life.Reading | By Melissa Jeter | March 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Water Communion, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Watershed moments are turning points, moments that permanently alter an understanding.Opening | By Martina Thompson | August 5, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth-Centered, Nature, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Spirit of Life, spirit of earth, spirit of all that breathes and all that is: we love you.Prayer | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | May 3, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, Stewardship, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Easter is a holiday of miracles.Opening | By Peggy Clarke | March 31, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Belief, Christianity, Easter, Hope, Love, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship