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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
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
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.
It is often used when a member of the meeting seeks to reach clarity on how to respond to a concern or dilemma. Like Quaker business meetings, meetings of clearness committees are considered a form of meeting for worship and are based on the principle that the inner light is present in all people. The process thus is one of aiding the person ...
Internet church is a gathering of religious believers facilitated through the use of online video stream, audio stream and/or written messages whose primary purpose is to allow the meeting of a church body of parishioners using the internet.
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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.