{"id":4655,"date":"2015-08-14T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsuushreveport.org\/cms\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:33:36","slug":"16-august-2015-water-communion-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/08\/14\/16-august-2015-water-communion-worship-service\/","title":{"rendered":"16 August 2015 Water Communion Worship Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WaterCommunion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4658\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WaterCommunion.jpg\" alt=\"WaterCommunion\" width=\"200\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WaterCommunion.jpg 348w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/WaterCommunion-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on 16 August 2015 at 11:00 AM for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/worship\/holidays\/water-communion\" target=\"_blank\">annual\u00a0Water Communion Ceremony worship service<\/a> with\u00a0Rev. Barbara Jarrell, the All Souls Choir, and your\u00a0stories for\u00a0the water you bring.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water_Communion\" target=\"_blank\">Water Communion<\/a> is a ritual celebrated in many Unitarian Universalist Churches.<\/p>\n<p>Children and youth will be with us for this service in the sanctuary (no religious education classes &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/08\/14\/end-of-summer-swim-party-16-august-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">the special summer activity for this Sunday is our annual pool party<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As our members and friends return from their summer adventures &#8212; whether far away or right in their own backyards &#8212; they bring with them a small container of water (from a place they have visited or representing a special memory of the summer).<\/p>\n<p>We pour our waters together in a common bowl as we each briefly tell our stories and celebrate our coming back together to begin a new church year.<\/p>\n<p>The water is then boiled, filtered, frozen, and saved for future water communions as well as other rituals such as child dedications.<\/p>\n<p>Bring your water in a small container. \u00a0If you forget or could not bring actual water from a place you visited, we will have symbolic water on hand for you to add to the bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on 16 August 2015 at 11:00 AM for our annual\u00a0Water Communion Ceremony worship service with\u00a0Rev. Barbara Jarrell, the All Souls Choir, and your\u00a0stories for\u00a0the water you bring. The Water Communion is a ritual celebrated in many Unitarian Universalist Churches. Children and youth will be with us for this service in the sanctuary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2015\/08\/14\/16-august-2015-water-communion-worship-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;16 August 2015 Water Communion Worship Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minister","category-religious-education","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}