Sunday 6th October
Responding with hope to God’s call to cherish creation – and one another
August 2024 500 Quakers from 53 countries met for the World Plenary Meeting in South Africa. They set the tone of World Quaker Day with a Weaving document prayer and epistle to all Friends and all peoples:
Weaving document prayer: “God of love and grace, we are a beautiful and broken people, living in a beautiful and broken world… Grant us the strength to seek each other’s forgiveness, and the love and courage to hold both pain and possibility in our hearts.”
World Plenary epistle: “God has no hands but ours, no feet but ours, no lips but ours, so we keep imagining a better world. I am because you are. I am because we are. I see you. We belong to each other. We are still here. We are one.”
World Quaker Day is a chance for Quakers to remember that we are worshiping through every time zone, celebrating our deep connections across cultures and Quaker traditions. We are united in love and can accompany each other on this special day that draws us together. It is a chance to celebrate our wonderful diversity of expression, whilst at the same time offering an important opportunity to learn about Friends’ experiences in other parts of the world.
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