“Meeting the Divine Mother as Mystery”
For this Christmas Day worship service we will gather in the Sanctuary for a ritual to commune with the Divine Mystery and journey to the Fellowship Hall to walk the Labyrinth.
Our Labyrinth walk we hope will be accompanied by HEART MEDICINE CD created by sacred musician Simon de Voil.
This gathering is in-person.
Or, you may watch it live on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/…/UC4LfMksgybFoY5gs27J…/featured
“You are the Mother and the Womb that gives shape to all.
You hide yourself in everyone and reveal yourself within them.
You move in every creature. You give life and take it away.
You shatter and You bring together. You are union and dissolution.
You are the Holy Mystery, hidden and revealed, And we praise you as long as we have breath.”
~ Prayer excerpt from Gnostic Eucharist*
Our Spiritual Discernment for 2022 has been:
ENCOUNTERING the INFINITE
Meeting the Divine Mother in
Nature, Humanity and the Cosmos
~ a contemplative, exploratory inquiry and discovery.
December’s focus: Meeting the Divine Mother as Mystery
“Close your eyes, fall in love,
stay there.
No more words.
Hear only the voice within.
Inside any deep asking is the answering.
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.”
– Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
About Reverend Karen Lindquist:
Karen 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.
What is Interspirituality?
“Interspirituality is committed to finding the spirituality both within and beyond religion. What ties us together is a shared desire to connect with the Ground of Being in a way that fully respects our differences. The challenge is to embody what is most true and real for us without seeking to convince or convert others.”
~ Joan Borysenko
Interspirituality comes from the work of Wayne Teasdale, who developed this term to reflect commonalities between religious traditions, specifically those that are spiritual in nature. These commonalities across religious practices do not erase differences in beliefs, rather they build community and sharing across practices, leading to the ultimate goal of more human responsibility to one another and the planet as a whole. At its core, this is an “assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices” drawn from many different traditions that can be applied to one’s own life to further personal, spiritual development.
SHARING OUR WEALTH
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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!
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.
*Prayer excerpt from Gnostic Eucharist
A Chalice of Mystery © The Reverend John Butcher
