A Fifth Sunday morning worship service.
We are invited to gather together in the lovely Sanctuary to share in a deep dialogue about this year’s spiritual discernment, Transforming the Body, Heart, and Mind. We will share our personal experiences and our progress in working with this theme. We will not be Live Streaming this worship service.
Devotional Chants shared by Isla Ross.
Our 2023 Spiritual Discernment:
Transforming the Body, Heart, and Mind
JANUARY: Purifying the Body
FEBRUARY: Cleansing the Heart
MARCH: Observing the Mind
APRIL: Refining the Body
MAY: Educating the Heart
JUNE: Clarifying the Mind
JULY: Relaxing the Body
AUGUST: Surrendering the Heart
SEPTEMBER: Dissolving the Mind
OCTOBER: Finding Balance in the Body
NOVEMBER: Harmonizing the Heart
DECEMBER: Recreating the Mind
Our yearly Spiritual Discernment is reflected in our activities, within our services each Sunday, and within the diverse groups that meet in circle through our community.
About our worship presenters:
Michael Bodhi Douglas is an initiated teacher and musician in the Mevlevi Sufi tradition. As a Cherag of the Universal Worship in the Inayati Sufi Order, he leads interfaith worship, guides spiritual practice, and teaches world religions. He is an Associate Minister at Interfaith Community Sanctuary, an icon painter, and a graphic artist. He also works with the Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization dedicated to friendship, love, and truth.
Isla Ross is a Devotional Artist and Composer who offers Healing Songs, Interfaith Chants, and Meditative Music, accompanied by an array of exotic instruments. Even as a child , she was fascinated by the spiritual practices and music of many cultures. In 2002, Isla experienced a transformative year in Europe, including a Sacred Clowning retreat in a Tibetan monastery. The lessons included Sacred chants of India. She continued studying with several sound healers in England and back in the US. In 2005, Isla found her way to the Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Seattle, where she shares music for services and events.
Karen Lindquist is co-founder and co-minister of Interfaith Community Sanctuary, a spiritual community grounded in circular leadership principles. She co-creates interfaith services throughout the year at the Sanctuary and with interfaith organizations in the greater Seattle area. For many years she served as a board member on The Interfaith Council of Washington and The Interfaith Network, now known as Northwest Interfaith. Reverend Karen’s regular spiritual practices include deep immersion within the Mevlevi tradition (as a follower of Rumi) with the Mevlevi Order of America and absorption into the mystic tradition of Ecclesia Gnostica through the Hagia Sophia Gnostic Parish.
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Your generous donation allows us to continue offering interfaith worship services, events, classes. Also to continue creating sacred community as well as maintaining a historic building in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Currently we are in the process of recovering from rain water damage.
Thank you for your help!
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Your generous DONATION may be mailed to:
Interfaith Community Sanctuary
1763 NW 62nd Street
Seattle, Washington 98107
Land Acknowledgement:
We would like to acknowledge that we gather today on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived here from time immemorial. Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude for our Indigenous neighbors, for their enduring care and protection of our shared lands and waterways.
The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the Coast Salish languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish_languages
