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Local meetings are always subordinate to their area meeting, and in turn their yearly meeting. [10]: 4.32 Meetings for church affairs are also considered to be meetings for worship, meaning "they carry the same expectation that God’s guidance can be discerned if we are truly listening together and to each other". [10]: 3.02
The Meeting holds Meeting for Worship every Sunday starting at 10:30 a.m. for approximately one hour. [1]The Meeting follows the "unprogrammed" or Hicksite tradition, in which those who attend Meeting for Worship gather in quiet to pray or meditate, and can remain so unless someone feels moved by "The Light Within" to give a message to the assembled body.
What is Quaker Meeting for Worship? (Halifax, Canada Meeting's website) BBC Religion website: Quakers: Worship. Four Doors to Meeting for Worship by William P. Taber. See also a summary of William Taber’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet; Quaker Faith and Practice, Chapter 2 "Approaches to God – worship and prayer" of Britain Yearly Meeting
Christian Faith and Practice: – A list of several different books of Christian Discipline Quaker Information Center website; Early Modern Quaker Texts Post-Reformation Digital Library; An Inventory of Friends Historical Library's Collection of Quaker Disciplines, 1689–2009, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a monthly meeting or area meeting [1] is the basic governing body, a congregation which holds regular meetings for business for Quakers in a given area. The monthly meeting is responsible for the administration of its congregants, including membership and marriages , and for the meeting's property.
The clerk is responsible for recording the discernment which is arrived at during such a meeting, in a minute, and is responsible for sending and receiving correspondence on behalf of the meeting. Within some branches of the Religious Society of Friends, the clerk may also create an agenda and may facilitate the meeting.
Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area.The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings.
The new Quaker meeting house is the first to be built in Philadelphia in eighty years. [2] The Meeting House is an active center for worship and the activities of the Monthly Meeting. [3] Since 1955, it has been a part of the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. [4] The meeting has participated in the Yearly Meetings of Friends.