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À propos des quakers

Les quakers sont une communauté de croyances diverses. Nous recherchons une vie remplie de sens, dans une communauté ouverte qui fait du bien à autrui.

Les quakers parlent d’une « Lumière intérieure » ou « une étincelle divine » dans chaque être humain. Les incitations de l’amour, dont nous sommes toutes et tous porteurs, sont à la source des valeurs quakers et de notre engagement au niveau de la paix.

Notre communauté est ouverte à la diversité  Drapeau arc-en-ciel  Toutes et tous sont les bienvenus.


Les pratiques quakers

Le cœur de l’assemblée quaker est notre culte silencieux. Nous nous asseyons et nous recherchons une tranquillité ensemble; personne ne dirige notre culte. Il est difficile de décrire le genre de communion que nous ressentons entre nous, avec le monde et avec la présence divine. Parfois, de cette unité silencieuse émerge un message — il se peut que quelqu’un parle, lise, prie, ou même chante.

Nous regroupons des quakers de toutes tendances —  des quakers athées, des quakers chrétiens, des quakers bouddhistes —, unis en cercle autour de notre pratique traditionnelle du culte silencieux et notre quête de mettre l’amour au centre de nos vies.


Nous trouver

Voici toutes les occasions de vous joindre à nous:

  • Notre assemblée le dimanche à 11 h sur Zoom et en personne au Centre Greene, près du métro Lionel-Groulx.
  • Un groupe de mi-semaine a lieu en présentiel le mercredi à 16 h 30 à McGill et sur Zoom le mercredi à 19 h. Il y aussi un Zoom francophone mensuel mardi à 19 h.
  • Un groupe à Québec, en présentiel le premier dimanche du mois à 11 h à Lévis.
  • Le groupe sur la Rive-Sud se voit à Saint-Lambert. Contactez-nous pour plus de détails.

Notre assemblée accueille les enfants avec joie, notamment par un événement le 3e dimanche du mois. Contactez-nous pour plus de détails. Ou simplement venir vous joindre à nous n’importe quel dimanche.

On peut s’inscrire pour la liste d’envoi pour notre infolettre.


Transcript

Josh Brown
Quakers believe that if you want to find out what God has to say, you need to listen. And so we spend a lot of time listening in quiet prayer. That quiet prayer time, which can happen anytime, anywhere, is the heart of the Quaker religious experience.

What to Expect in Quaker Meeting for Worship

Maggie Harrison
If you are going to go into Quaker Meeting for the first time, first of all, congratulations. So you walk in, sit down, be quiet. What to expect when you’re there, besides just “go with the flow” is different things depending on where you are.

What Should I Wear?

Vanessa Julye
Unlike some other churches, you don’t need to dress up with suit and tie or a fancy dress. Most of the folks come in jeans, t-shirts, or shorts/t-shirts. Whatever you’re comfortable in. Should I Bring My Kids?

Maggie Harrison
So you’re thinking about coming to Meeting and you have children. You really need to know that you have to bring them. They may or may not enjoy themselves but we’re always so thrilled to have young people join us. They come and they’re bringing their alive-ness and their love and their genuine-ness. So please, yes, bring them.

Entering The Space: A Plain Setting

Maggie Harrison
So if you come into this space and you’re looking for images or words on the walls, some kind of direction, and you’re going to notice that there isn’t going to be any there. From the very beginning of Quakerism, its about the inside. So it’s about you not looking around you for that, but really going inward for your own wisdom, for your own piece of the divine that’s been given to you.

Kody Hersh
Sometimes a worship room will look like a really old building with benches that have been sat on by thousands of Quakers over hundreds of years and sometimes it will look like the basement of another local church.

Entering the Space: Where Should I Sit?

Kody Hersh
Something that’s common to them is that people often will enter already in silence, find a place in the room and sit down in silence. Anyone coming into the room can sit anywhere, there’s not a right place or a wrong place to sit.

The Service: Learning to Listen

Christie Duncan-Tessmer
So before you go into Meeting for Worship for the first time, I’ll tell you what I’ve always told my kids when they were little, every week before we went in, which is just, “remember when you go in, to just sit down and listen for God. God is here with us and this is a space to listen.”

Charlotte Cloyd
The first time I went to Quaker Meeting I didn’t know how to listen. Because I had never listened in church before. I had to work on that process of figuring out: what am I listening for? Am I listening to myself? What’s going on? What is everyone else listening to and how does that affect the community and me?

Maggie Harrison
So in that quiet-ness you walk in, you say, “Ok, everyone is sitting there quietly, when are the directions going to come? What am I going to do?” Just follow suit.

Christie Duncan-Tessmer
Just sit down in that space. Just feel the space and the people around you and open yourself as much as you can. Just continue to notice how you can be aware of all that’s around you and all that’s within you, and how that’s all connected to everybody else in the room.