Return home within and dwell in the light: Extended Worship + Inward Communion + Worship sharing

11/15/25 9:30 am 

Merion Friends Meeting 

615 Montgomery Ave Merion, PA 

Schedule: 

9:15 to 9:30 Gathering and Welcome  *  

9:30 to 12:30 Extended Meeting for Worship *                                   

12:30 to 1:30 BYO Brown Bag Lunch   

1:30 to 3:00 Worship Sharing        

 3:00 to 3:15 Clean-up and departure.

Time is slippery.  It may take only a moment, or the rest of our lives to discern God’s Will.  Our Weekly meetings are Every Sunday at 11 am and they are one hour.  This Special Saturday retreat is part of a time honored tradition going back to the early days of the Quaker Experiment in which friends met for long hours, sometimes whole days of listening in body and spirit for a transformative encounter with the divine presence. 

Paradoxically, We find that the extended duration (usually around three hours) allows any anxiety or feelings of scarcity to drift away into an oceanic sensation of deep time and embodiment that are only just starting to bloom in shorter durations.

Our manner of worship is grounded in deep silence, where we hope to gather “with hearts knit together in love” (Colossians 2:2).  In this stillness, we set aside the noise of our busy lives and our preconceived thoughts, listening inwardly for spiritual insight and guidance.  We believe, that Inward communion is nearer to us than the air we breathe, it fills the secret interiority of all creation and speaks to us at our innermost hearts. In worship we return to a reality that is always within and around us- an invisible and living stream into which we can step at any time. 

A Quaker meeting for worship, is a dedicated space in which  to Return Home within, and to dwell in the light.