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Flower Communion, also known as Flower Ceremony, Flower Festival, or Flower Celebration, is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalism, though the specific practices vary between congregations. [1] [2] It is usually held on the last Sunday of worship in late May or June, as some congregations recess from holding services during the summer.
Floral imagery from scripture and nature has been applied to Mary in the writings of the Church Fathers and in the liturgy, providing the foundation in tradition for the subsequent naming of hundreds of flowers for Mary's life, mysteries, virtues, excellences and divine prerogatives in the popular religious folk traditions of the medieval ...
Chancel flowers adorn the presbytery of St Peter's Church in Lilley, Hertfordshire. Chancel flowers (also known as altar flowers) are flowers that are placed in the chancel of a Christian church. [1] These chancel flowers are often paid for by members of a congregation as an offering of thanksgiving to God. [2]
A woman creating a flower arrangement in the 1930s in Tokyo, Japan An arrangement displayed at a church in Beer, United Kingdom. Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floral design is found as far back as the culture ...
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A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine, the columbine, the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils. Mariological symbols include the rose, lily, olive, cedar, cypress and palm ...
In the jiyūka (自由花, ' free flowers ') [27] style, creative design of flower arranging is emphasised, with any material permissible for use, including non-flower materials. In the 20th century, with the advent of modernism , the three schools of ikebana partially gave way to what is commonly known in Japan as "Free Style".