Sunday Worship
Universal Worship: “Our Relationship with the Ancestors”
Date: Sunday, May 12, 2024
Time: 10:00 am — 11:30 am
This event is In Person, Live Streaming
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This Universal Worship gathering will focus on our spiritual discernment “Making a Home for the Mystic Heart” (Maintaining an Environment for Spiritual Practice)
Scriptural readings are available here
This gathering is in-person. It will be live-streamed.
You can view this service in real time on our YouTube channel.
Our 2024 Spiritual Discernment:
Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
JANUARY: Making a Home
FEBRUARY: Motivating Ourselves for Spiritual Work
MARCH: What is Our Ultimate Spiritual Goal?
APRIL: Gratitude
MAY: Our Relationship with the Ancestors
JUNE: The Ideals
JULY: Confession and Forgiveness
AUGUST: Compassion
SEPTEMBER: Mindfulness Through Breath
OCTOBER: Concentration
NOVEMBER: Meditation
DECEMBER: Dedication
SHARING OUR WEALTH
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!
https://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org/donate/
You may also mail your donation as a check 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
Special Events
Dinner with Others ⭐️
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm -
This event is In Person
Dear Friends,
Interfaith Community Sanctuary is Co-sponsoring this free event with Northwest Interfaith and Unity of Lynnwood. Registration is required (below) and seating is limited. Please use the link here to register today for this free vegetarian dinner event!
https://dinnerwithothers.bpt.me
You are cordially invited to Dinner with Others- a cost-free, vegetarian dinner experience, 6:00 p.m., Saturday, May 18, 2024 – sponsored by Northwest Interfaith and Unity in Lynnwood.
The event will be held at Unity of Lynnwood, 16727 Alderwood Mall Pkwy, Lynnwood, WA 98037
Share a story. Shake a hand.
Laugh. Eat. Connect.
Let us Rehumanize each other, as brothers and sisters at a global table, for the greater good of all.
Facilitated by: Dr. Richard Loren Held
Complimentary registration is available by clicking https://dinnerwithothers.bpt.me
Seating at this event is limited to the first 75 registrants
Chant and Drum Circle for World Peace ⭐️
Date: Friday, May 24, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Led by: Isla Ross
This event is In Person
All are warmly invited to bring hand drums and percussion ,songs, chants and prayers to share ! Together we will make a difference. 
The songs and chants will be participatory, simple and easy to follow, from various cultures. Sound carries intention out into the world.
Everyone is welcome to bring a hand drum, shakers, and other hand percussion to play along. Also bring Prayers of Peace to share with the Circle at the end.
About Isla Ross:
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.
Ongoing Gatherings
Friday Prayers in the Islamic Tradition
Prayer Room at Interfaith Community Sanctuary
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Led by: Bahiyaa Ann Holmes Redding
This event is Zoom
For more information about Friday Prayers and to obtain the Zoom link, please contact us at interfaithcommunitysanctuary@gmail.com or call ICS at 206-783-1618.
Jumah Mubarak!
Please join us for our regular online Prayer gathering in the Islamic tradition offered every Friday through partnership with Interfaith Community Sanctuary and Cherry Street Mosque guided by Bahiyaa Ann Holmes Redding.
Our Zoom room opens at 1:15 for socializing.
As always, all are welcome.
Our 2024 Spiritual Discernment
Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
Please note: Friday Prayers in the Islamic Tradition is a woman-led gathering. Women and men stand, sit, and pray together. Different participants lead the congregational prayer. Whenever possible, Qur’anic verses and traditional prayers are offered in Arabic and translated into English.
Our prayer gathering is a collaborative sharing and spiritually deepening experience guided by Muslim / Christian scholar, author and teacher, Bahiyaa Ann Holmes Redding, a minister, author, teacher, PhD in New Testament, singer, and spiritual director—presents locally, nationally, and internationally. Both Christian and Muslim since 2006, Ann is founder of Abrahamic Reunion West, a non-profit committed to healing the global dysfunction of the Abrahamic family of faith. She is co-author with Jamal Rahman and Kathleen Schmitt Elias of “Out of Darkness into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Jewish and Christian Sources.”
The weekly khutbah (sermon, address, message, teaching, reflection) is offered by Bahiyaa Ann Holmes Redding in English. There are times participants or guests may offer words of wisdom. Bahiyaa also invites all participants to share personal reflections upon the theme during our group discussion.
Information is posted on the Interfaith Community Sanctuary Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/367628188440865/?
Also, visit the Facebook page: “Friday Prayer (Salatul Juma’a) at the Interfaith Sanctuary in Seattle”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/InclusiveFridayPrayerInSeattle
for a weekly posting about Friday Prayer and the discussion content.
PRAYERS:
Al-Fatiha
Bismi-llah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim
Al-hamdu lillahi rabb-il-‘alamin
Ar-Rahman ir-Rahim
Maliki yawm id-Din
Iyyaka na’abudu w iyyaka nasta’in
Ihdin-as-sirat al-mustqim
Sirata-lla dhina an’amta ‘alaihim
Ghair-il-maghdubi ‘alaihim
wa lad-Dallin
Amin
Opening the Heart
We begin in the Name of God,
Everlasting Mercy, Infinite Compassion.
Praise be to God, Loving Lord of all the worlds.
Everlasting Mercy, Infinite Compassion.
Eternal Strength of every living being,
Whose Majestic Power embraces us on the day of the great return.
Only You do we adore, and to You alone do we cry for help.
Guide us, O God, on the path of Perfect Harmony,
the path of those whom You have blessed with the gifts of Peace, Joy, Serenity and Delight,
the path of those who are not brought down by anger,
the path of those who are not lost along the way.
Amin
So be it.
(Translation by Imam Bilal Hyde)
