Global Chalice Lighting Words for June 2011

This is the 94th in the monthly series of Global Chalice Lightings from the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists, for use during June 2011. It is submitted in French and English by the Eglise Unitarienne Francophone in homage to Norbert Capek. Please see that this Global Chalice Lighting is translated, if necessary, and distributed as widely as possible within your group.

Chaque fois que je vois une fleur, je pense à toi,

Chaque fois que je vois une fleur, je pense à nous,

Car nous assemblons les fleurs, n’est-ce pas ?

Pour qu’elles forment un éventail arc-en-ciel

Pour qu’elles fassent bouquets

Pour qu’elles fassent Eglise.

On dit que, dans ta Bohème natale,

Elles sont si nombreuses au printemps

tant belles et mutines

Qu’elles courent et dansent dans les prés

Célébrant la vie en farandole de liberté.

Each time I see a flower, I think of you.

Each time I see a flower, I think of us.

For we gather flowers, do we not?

So that they may bloom into a fan-shaped rainbow

and make up lovely bouquets,

making up the Church.

They say there are so many of them

in your native Bohemia,

so beautiful and lively,

that they run and dance in the fields

celebrating life in a frolic of freedom.

Jean-Claude Barbier

Eglise Unitarienne Francophone