Which UU churches will have Christian communion next week?
If there’s going to be one Christian service of communion in a Unitarian Universalist (or Universalist or Unitarian) churches in a year, it will probably be in Holy Week: at Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday or perhaps (a bit eccentric, but probably a surviving morsel of Victorian liberal theology) Good Friday.
There’s a hint, but not a confirmation, that there’s going to be a service at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Florence (South Carolina). Which makes me wonder, which churches (especially the non-Christian ones) will have a recognizably Christian service of communion soon?
Here’s your chance to drum up some interest.
15 March 2008 at 7:19 pm
We are indeed having communion on Palm Sunday (no service this Easter) in Florence SC . And I see that their newsletter states that Red Hill Universalist in Clinton, NC is having communion on Easter Sunday.
16 March 2008 at 4:23 am
I know of three congregations in Britain that will celebrate communion on Maundy Thursday: Bury (Greater Manchester), Padiham (Lancashire) and Kingswood (outside Birmingham). I think possibly Cross Street Chapel in Manchester might have a communion on Easter Sunday, but I don’t know that for sure. First Church Boston (MA) also have a communion on Easter morning, before the main service, that I always used to go to.
16 March 2008 at 7:56 am
The UU Church of Muncie will have its traditional Maundy Thursday dinner (food items rectricted to rice, fish, vegetables, and bread) and communion service (as required from the original by-laws). The event is very simmilar to the annual Love Feast at a Church of the Brethren, but there is no foot washing.
Epiphany Community Church would normally have communion on Easter, but their pastor is on medical leave for a heart problem.
20 March 2008 at 6:28 pm
This year here in Turley we didn’t offer a Maundy Thursday service and didn’t find one to go with others to; overwhelmed in preparation for lots of mission work this weekend; we will be part of the Tennebrae Service at All Souls with the other three UU churches in Tulsa on Good Friday at noon; we will have communion at 10 a.m. Sunday morning (departure from usual gathering time in the late afternoon/evening) and then travel to join with Church of Restoration for its 11 a.m. service.
23 March 2008 at 9:17 pm
having attended Clayton Memorial in Newberry SC on Easter, I can add that they had communion.
23 March 2008 at 9:38 pm
Was the service they used from the red hymnal; if so, was it the long or the short service? Just thinking about how it used to be when I supplied there. Happy thoughts.
25 March 2008 at 1:58 pm
No, it was not from the red hymnal,
although UU Florence (South Carolina) did use a modified version of the short service.