Thought for the Week: Communion in Meeting

Terry Oakley considers Quaker worship

by Terry Oakley 10th February 2017

Communing in the Spirit might be one way to describe Quaker worship. Individuals meet together mainly in silence, but the aim is to become a ‘gathered’ Meeting, to be in communion with one another and with ‘the Other’. The contrast with sung Eucharist or high mass is stark… no wordy liturgy, no music, smells or bells, no single celebrant or president, no bread, wafer, paten or wine or chalice. This is not the normal celebration of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion.