Water Ceremony

The Water Ceremony, also called Water Communion, was first used at a Unitarian Universalist worship service in the 1980s. Many UU congregations now hold a Water Ceremony once a year, often at the beginning of the new church year.

Participants bring to the service a small amount of water from a source that is meaningful to them. During the ceremony, people pour their water one by one into a common bowl, and may choose to think of or say the importance of their water to them. The joining of the waters into one vessel symbolizes how all of our waters come together to form something greater than ourselves.

Read more about the UU Water Ceremony on the UUA website.