However, Memorial Sunday has been largely transferred to Memorial Day, which seems appropriate to me (sometimes it’s good to accomodate to the wider culture). Easter Sunday may be problematic as a time to welcome new members, since Easter tends to be such a three-ring circus for many families, and since so many regular attenders stay away in order to avoid the twice-a-year attenders. As for child dedications, I prefer to dedicate children during our annual Flower Service (a Unitarian liturgical innovation), not on Children’s Sunday, but I could go either way — mostly, I just do it when the families are ready, and once a year doesn’t seem often enough. I don’t think we’d want to do “Japan Sunday,” especially not on the fourth Sunday in November (not since FDR put Thanksgiving right before that Sunday) — but it would be nice to have some kind of date to recognize Universalists and Unitarians and UUs around the world.

Having said all that, I’m looking forward to your ideas for a liturgical calendar….

(Just so you know, in Safari “Christmas Sunday” appeared as “CFPGQRK?Q SWLB?W” — apparently, Safari doesn’t like the small caps formatting you used in this post, although Firefox displays them properly. So for the benefit of other Safari users, here’s the holidays Scott lists above, in the order listed: Christmas Sunday, Easter Sunday a Service of Recognition, Children’s Sunday, first Sunday of October /Memorial Sunday, first Sunday of November / All-Souls Sunday, third Sunday of May / Educational Sunday (in which we appeal to Sunday Schools for aid in the Home Missionary Work), and fourth Sunday in November / Japan Sunday, for the presentation of the claims of our Foreign Work.))