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Cultural context remains in descriptions. Titles now uniformly use the practice name without prefixing the culture, country, religion, or people. e.g. 'Quaker Meeting for Worship' -> 'Meeting for Worship', 'Moroccan Jmaa Village Assembly' -> 'Jmaa Village Assembly', 'Aboriginal Yarning Circle' -> 'Yarning Circle'. 43 titles updated across the seed library.
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id: quaker-meeting-for-worship
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title: Meeting for Worship
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description: >-
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A Quaker silent worship practice in which participants gather in
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expectant silence, speaking only when moved by the Spirit. Originating in
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17th-century England with the Religious Society of Friends.
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source: Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
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source_url: https://www.quaker.org.uk/
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tags: [quaker, worship, silence, contemplation]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Settle into silence
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description: >-
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The meeting begins as participants enter and settle into silence
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without a leader or liturgy. There is no programme or hymn.
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- headline: Speak as led
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description: >-
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Anyone who feels moved by the Spirit may rise and speak a brief
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message. After each message, the group returns to silence.
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- headline: Hold the silence
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description: >-
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The meeting may pass entirely in silence, or include several messages.
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Silence is not emptiness but worship.
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- headline: Close with handshakes
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description: >-
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After about an hour, an elder turns to a neighbour and shakes hands,
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signalling the close. All exchange handshakes.
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outcome: >-
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Participants experience communal worship through silence and any spoken
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ministry that arises, without liturgy or hierarchy.
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practice: >-
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The discipline is the silence — do not fill it. If you speak, stand and
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speak briefly; do not debate or reply to another's message. Let the
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silence hold what is said. |