Flower Communion

This early Spring Sunday - 12th September, saw us celebrating our annual Unitarian Flower Communion, first held by Unitarian minister, Norbert Čapek in Prague, Czechoslovakia in June 1923. Each person would bring a flower to church. Early in the service, each would place a flower in a large central vase and at the conclusion of the flower communion, each would depart with a different flower. This sharing of flowers within the Flower Communion is a celebration of the uniqueness and diversity of flowers - and of each other. We also remember the martyrdom of Norbert Čapek in 1942, when he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp, imprisoned, tortured and eventually gassed.
Norbert Čapek leaves the Flower Communion to us as his lasting legacy.