{"id":10106,"date":"2012-05-27T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2012-05-27T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T21:53:02","slug":"flower-communion-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/flower-communion-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Communion Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9326\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10106-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=10106-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2012-05-27_Flower_communion.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Rev. George &#8220;Kim&#8221; Beach<\/p>\n<p>May 27, 2012<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg Barnhouse and Barbara Stoddard lead the Flower Communion litany. By bringing and exchanging flowers in this service, participants are part of a particularly Unitarian service created by Rev. Norbert Capek, who believed that each of us is like a flower which is beautiful in its own way. When we gather as a church, we are a festive bouquet of people.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The communion we celebrate has taken place all over the world in Unitarian and UU churches since 1923. Norbert Capek started this ritual to celebrate the worth, value and beauty of all people and celebrate the community of faith. In celebrating the worth of all shapes, sizes, families and colors, Capek saw hope for humanity. He would later die at the hands of the Nazis because this belief was so different from theirs. We remember him and his principles and dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Text of this sermon is not available. Click the play button to listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\">Podcasts<\/a> of sermons are also available for free on iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. George &#8220;Kim&#8221; Beach May 27, 2012 Rev. Meg Barnhouse and Barbara Stoddard lead the Flower Communion litany. By bringing and exchanging flowers in this service, participants are part of a particularly Unitarian service created by Rev. Norbert Capek, who believed that each of us is like a flower which is beautiful in its own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-guest-speakers","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}