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Upper Dublin Friends (Quaker) Meeting

What we Believe

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We believe that every person is loved by the Divine Spirit.  There are Quakers of all ages, religious backgrounds, races, education, sexual orientations, gender identities, and classes... You are welcome to join us as you are.
                                                - Friends General Conference's Newcomer Card
 

The Religious Society of Friends is a community of faith based on experience of a transforming power named many ways: the Inner Light, the Spirit of Christ, the Guide, the Living God, the Divine Presence, the Spirit That Moves in All Things, Creator, Universe.  Friends are open to an ongoing relationship with God, in whatever form or name they believe, and seek to live according to the leadings of the Spirit.

Membership includes openness to an ongoing relationship with God/ Spirit and willingness to live one’s life according to the leadings of the Spirit. For generations of Friends, membership has been an outward sign of an inward experience of Christ, the “true light which gives light to everyone” (John 1:9). In recent decades, many Friends have moved from a Christocentric faith to a Theocentric one, with many meetings and members becoming more Universalist than Christian.

Friends have proclaimed from the beginning that every person is endowed with the capacity to enter directly, without mediator or mediation, into an empowering holy communion with God.

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New to Meeting for Worship? 


If you've never attended a Meeting for Worship, we hope you will come worship with us.   

Many have found help in viewing the "introductory" videos to answer questions that might arise in expectation of a Quaker Meeting for Worship.   

Most Quaker meetings, at least in this part of country, are so-called "unprogrammed" meetings. This means that our meetings for worship are not led by a minister but are largely conducted in silence.  Typically, a Clerk or other Member of the Meeting will close worship with a simple "Good morning, friends" but otherwise the meeting may be completely silent. 

Members and attenders are always invited to speak out of the silence with a message about their spiritual journey, although messages are not responded to directly.

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A message has been described as a pebble tossed into a pond.  The resulting ripples are received by others in the meeting and may contribute to their own spiritual journeys.