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We share three essays written by members of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting about their experience of Quaker Meeting for Worship.
This episode originally aired on June 21, 2023.
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This year’s meeting will be held on Sunday, June 14th starting at 2:30pm. All are welcome and interested Friends can learn more details about the event by contacting Brigflatts Quaker Meeting (though feel free to just turn up!).
To contact: brigflatts.org/contact-us/
Each year close to the anniversary of the 1652 meeting on Firbank Fell, Friends hold an open-air meeting for worship around Fox’s Pulpit, then go to Brigflatts Meeting House for tea and cake.
A permanent meeting was settled by Fox at Brigflatts later in 1652 and has continued uninterrupted to this day. The meeting house was built 23 years later, and in 1677 Fox returned there with Margaret Fell. He records that about 500 people were present and “a very good meeting it was.”
Fox wouldn’t go into the chapel to preach, but instead spoke for three hours to the gathered crowd from the top of a nearby crag, now known as Fox’s Pulpit. Many people were convinced. This event is now widely seen as the start of the Quaker movement.
Soon after this divine directive to gather people in the Truth, Fox was encouraged to attend a gathering of some 1,000 seekers in and around the small chapel on Firbank Fell a few miles from Brigflatts.
In late spring of 1652, George Fox was traveling through Northern England on foot, preaching, when he climbed to the top of Pendle Hill and had a vision of “a great people in white raiment by a riverside coming to the Lord.”
This is the story of one of the first Quaker meetings ever established, at Brigflatts in Cumbria. Read to the end of the thread for an invitation to what will be many Friends’ dream meeting for worship! @quaker.org.uk
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