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Flourishing Together: Flower Communion, Norbert Čapek, and Robin Wall Kimmerer on Mutual Flourishing & Flower Communion by Eric Hepburn
The Great World House segment recounts the origin: in 1923, Norbert Čapek, founder of the modern Unitarian church in Czechoslovakia, asked each congregant to bring a single flower. Placed together in one vase, blessed, and exchanged — each person carrying home a flower someone else brought — the ceremony offered his largely ex-Catholic congregation a communion rooted not in bread and wine but in nature herself: receive the gift, cherish the gift, pass the gift on. The Voice o
Jun 28 min read
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