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id: quaker-meeting-for-worship
title: Quaker Meeting for Worship
description: >-
A Quaker silent worship practice in which participants gather in
expectant silence, speaking only when moved by the Spirit. Originating in
17th-century England with the Religious Society of Friends.
source: Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
source_url: https://www.quaker.org.uk/
tags: [quaker, worship, silence, contemplation]
forked_from: null
image: null
steps:
- headline: Settle into silence
description: >-
The meeting begins as participants enter and settle into silence
without a leader or liturgy. There is no programme or hymn.
- headline: Speak as led
description: >-
Anyone who feels moved by the Spirit may rise and speak a brief
message. After each message, the group returns to silence.
- headline: Hold the silence
description: >-
The meeting may pass entirely in silence, or include several messages.
Silence is not emptiness but worship.
- headline: Close with handshakes
description: >-
After about an hour, an elder turns to a neighbour and shakes hands,
signalling the close. All exchange handshakes.
outcome: >-
Participants experience communal worship through silence and any spoken
ministry that arises, without liturgy or hierarchy.
practice: >-
The discipline is the silence — do not fill it. If you speak, stand and
speak briefly; do not debate or reply to another's message. Let the
silence hold what is said.