{"id":2591,"date":"2016-04-27T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T11:44:10","slug":"field-trip-flower-communion-in-brooklyn-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2016\/field-trip-flower-communion-in-brooklyn-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip: Flower Communion in Brooklyn Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SUNDAY, MAY 1st at 11AM<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Meet at 10:30 am.)<\/p>\n<p>Come learn about Czech history in New York and celebrate Spring with friends.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-content\/meadow-of-flowers-e1461781408572.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Location:<br \/>\nFirst Unitarian Church<br \/>\n50 Monroe Place at Pierrepont St.<br \/>\nBrooklyn Heights, NY<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuub.org\">More information here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><br \/>\nWe will visit the church and participate in the Sunday service and Flower Ceremony.<br \/>\nBring a flower to exchange it for another after the ceremony.<br \/>\nReview the song below. It is traditionally sung at this occasion. In Czech!! Its text will be available to non-Czech speakers in a phonetic transcription.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aj luc\u008dka, lucka siroka,<br \/>\nroste na ni\u00ad trava,<br \/>\nroste na ni\u00ad trava vysoka.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After, we will walk around Brooklyn Heights and have lunch in a local restaurant.<br \/>\nCharlotta Kotik, great granddaughter of president Toms Garrigue Masaryk, will join us and give us some insights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEASE LET US KNOW <\/strong>if you will join us for lunch so we can make a reservation.<br \/>\n<strong>RSVP <a href=\"mailto:newyork@svu2000.org\">newyork@svu2000.org <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn Heights has historic ties with Czechoslovakia. Brooklyn-born <strong>Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk <\/strong>(1850-1923), later the First Lady of Czechoslovakia, was its very active member. She was instrumental in developing close ties with the Czechoslovak Unitaria and cooperation with <strong>Norbert Capek<\/strong>, the founder of Czech Unitarian Church in Prague and creator of the Flower Communion. Both her husband Tomas Garrigue Masaryk and her son Jan spoke from this church&#8217;s pulpit. You can see some memorabilia and photos in the church.<\/p>\n<p>More information here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/documents\/zottolireginald\/flowercommunion.pdf\">www.uua.org\/documents\/zottolireginald\/flowercommunion.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in New York (SVU NY)<br \/>\nand The New York Czech Slovak Meet Up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNDAY, MAY 1st at 11AM (Meet at 10:30 am.) Come learn about Czech history in New York and celebrate Spring with friends. Location: First Unitarian Church 50 Monroe Place at Pierrepont St. Brooklyn Heights, NY More information here PROGRAM We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/2016\/field-trip-flower-communion-in-brooklyn-heights\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svu2000.org\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}