A Guide to Quaker Worship Homewood Friends Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland has for several years offered newcomers a leaflet containing the original form of this text. If you are joining us in worship today, you may need an introduction to our Quaker form of worship. We hope that this short statement will be helpful. Please feel free to ask any member for further explanation.
Friends have no creed, no sacraments, and no presiding ministers.
We minister to each other in love by sharing our silence, our deepest leadings, our prayers, our sorrows, and our hopes. Our worship is based on silence. For us, silence is not merely a time to relax or gather one's thoughts. Quaker worship is an alert openness to the still leading of the Inner Light. Generally, no one speaks for the first twenty or more minutes.