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Author:   Heather Concannon ,  Allison Palm
Publisher:   Skinner House Books
Imprint:   Skinner House Books
ISBN:  

9781558969209

ISBN 10:   1558969209
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Handle with Care: Context and Covenant for Rituals Practical Tips for Rituals Permissions and Guidelines for Adaptations Rituals for Individuals and Families Grounding and Centering For Daily Reflection For a New Year For Everyday Adventures For Discernment For Entering and Exiting Silence Milestone Moments For Preparing to Give Birth For Adoption For Weaning For Starting at a New School For Life Transitions for a Person with Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder For Coming Out For Affirming Names and Pronouns For Release from Prison, Jail, or Detention For Retirement Partnership For the Union of More Than Two Partners For Acknowledging Community in a Wedding For a Blended Family For Separation or Divorce (for Both Partners) For Separation or Divorce (for an Individual) For a Partner Near the End of Life Creating Home For Blessing a New Home For Bidding Farewell to a Home For Blessing a Temporary Home After Disaster Blessing Our Bodies For Assisted Conception For Abortion For Planned Hospitalization For a Hysterectomy For Beginning Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy For Gender Affirmation Surgery For a Service Dog Partnership For an Assistive Device For Head Shaving during Chemotherapy For a Loved One with Dementia or Cognitive Decline Grief and Memory For Losing a Wanted Pregnancy For a Baby Who Has Died or Will Soon Die For Blessing a Body after Death For Blessing a Space Where a Loved One Has Died For the Dedication of a Memorial Bench or Tree For the First Anniversary of a Death For Burying or Scattering the Ashes of a Pet Rituals for Congregations and Communities Healing, Hope, and Blessing For Mending a Broken Covenant For Honoring Grief and Gratitude For Letting Go For Those Living on the Threshold of Significant Change For Honoring Elders For Carrying Hope after Collective Loss For Honoring Our Connection to Water For Saying Goodbye to a Sacred Space For Breaking Ground on a Building Project For Blessing a New or Renovated Church Building For the Days following a Natural Disaster For the End of a Natural Disaster Season For the First Anniversary of a Natural Disaster Seasons and Cycles For Blessing Backpacks For Beginning and Ending a Congregational Year For Celebrating the Harvest For Coming Out Day For Veterans Day For Transgender Day of Remembrance For the Season of Creative Dormancy For Grief during the Winter Holidays For the Winter Solstice For a New Year For Earth Day For Acknowledging Mother’s, Father’s, and Parents’ Days For Pride Working for Justice For Blessing the Organizers For Direct Action For Nourishing Justice Makers For Lamenting and Setting Intentions to Heal White Supremacy Culture For Blessing a Congregational Black Lives Matter Banner For Survivors of Sexual Assault and Harassment For Trauma in the News Crafting Your Own Rituals

Reviews

"""A gorgeously written and practically useful book of blessings for every occasion. Sensitive and imaginative, these words will touch your heart and lift your spirit!"" —Casper ter Kuile, author of The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices ""With so much shifting in our lives and our world today, here is a valuable resource for engaging the power of rituals to make brave space for change. Heather Concannon and Allison Palm have gathered in one volume a rich and diverse collection of specific rituals that honor the sacred ground of transition. They also offer wise guidance for developing new rituals and blessings that are inclusive, expansive and empowering of participants. In our personal lives and our communities, Blessing It All will illuminate a promising way through times of great change.” —Karen Hering, author of Trusting Change: Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation “Rev. Palm and Concannon provide the necessary tools for each of us to create rituals for every occasion. In this remarkably comprehensive compendium, distilled from a roster of diverse authors, are rituals to mark life’s milestones—unions and separations, losses and gains, transitions and continuances, quiet moments of reflection and boisterous outbursts of joy, retreats for rest and healing, and marches forward toward action and justice. We are reminded of the sacredness of every moment and are compelled to bless them all.” —Anthony Y. Stringer, Ayanna Kafi Loebe, and Rev. Duncan Teague, authors of Imani Rituals: Nurturing African Spiritual Heritage “This book is a treasure chest. Open it and you will find 73—yes, count them, 73—rituals, some for occasions you may be used to celebrating or otherwise honoring in ritual, and other rituals that never even occurred to you. Each one is presented complete with a materials list, a script, and notes on the intention and purpose of the ritual. There are also suggestions in this book for how to create your own ritual. Here you will find still more treasure—reflections on what ritual is for and how it can deepen and transform the shared life of your Unitarian Universalist or other faith community, your family or group of beloved friends, even your relationship with your own transforming self. This book can bring us all to our senses about what we value and how to embody our values in meaningful ways. A treasure chest indeed!” —Rev. Barbara Child, editor of The Spirit That Moves: Readings and Rituals for Times of Change and Transition “Revs. Heather and Allison have offered us a gift of such immeasurable value. They offer us each a way to deepen our spiritual lives with reflection and connection. They have offered our communities a way to care for each other more deeply and hold each other in love. And they have offered our movement a way to deepen our spiritual lives and grow our tradition toward love and care.” —Matt Meyer, musician, educator, worship leader, and author of Desmond Gets Free"

Author Information

Heather Concannon serves as the settled minister of the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Previously she served as the Minister of Faith Formation at the Unitarian Universalist Area Church in Sherborn, Massachusetts. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist and lives in Boston with her family. Allison Palm serves as the settled minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she worked for the UU Ministers Association and served congregations on Long Island and in the Boston area. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist from Minnesota and lives in Nashua with her family.

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