Sunday Worship
4th Sunday Inter-Spiritual Worship ~ Making a Home for the Mystic Heart
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 am — 11:30 am
With George Ramirez
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What is Our Ultimate Spiritual Goal?
“Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is to be sought after, inquired about, and realized.”
Chandogya Upanishad – T. Krishnamacharya
Special Events
Reverend Karen Lindquist Memorial Service
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Reverend Karen’s Memorial Service is scheduled for Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 3:00-5:30 pm at Interfaith Community Sanctuary in Ballard. Address of Memorial Service: 1763 NW 62nd Street, Seattle, WA 98107. This memorial will be live-streamed for those unable to attend in person. The program will include light refreshments. Since this Memorial is occurring in the month of Ramadan, we will provide compostable containers for people fasting to carry food home for breaking the fast later.
The ICS Guiding Council has set up the Karen Lindquist Memorial Fund in Honor of Reverend Karen and her long and dedicated service to Interfaith Community Sanctuary. If you wish to donate to this fund, please go to the Donation page of our website. There you can designate your donation to the Rev. Karen Lindquist Memorial Fund.
Checks may also be mailed to Interfaith Community Sanctuary at 1763 NW 62nd Street, Seattle, WA 98107. Please designate “Karen Lindquist Fund” in the memo section of your check. All memorial funds will be used to honor Reverend Karen’s legacy, and for the beautification and enhancement our historic building and Interfaith programs in ways she would have wished.
Reverend Karen Lindquist has been a central pillar and guiding light for our community ever since the inception of Interfaith Community Sanctuary in 1998. Reverend Karen passed away peacefully in her sleep on February 4, 2024. ICS was her all-consuming love, passion, and life’s work. Her absence leaves an immense void in our hearts and in the work of our community. Reverend Karen was a unique visionary, and dedicated servant of service. She worked tirelessly every day to ensure the smooth administration of the Sanctuary programs, aligning them with our vision of Interfaith understanding, cooperation and collaboration locally, nationally, and internationally. She repeatedly emphasized the critical need for each of us to stay connected with our Divine purpose through spiritual practices, careful study, and self- introspection. This work leads us all to be of authentic selfless service in the community and the world.
Ongoing Gatherings
ACIM
Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Led by: Chris Holland and Dorothy Rodes
This event is In Person
We meet in person the first and third Tuesday of every month, and virtually the second and fourth Tuesday.
A Course In Miracles,“ACIM”, is a combined three volume set of books, (Text, Workbook, Manual for Teachers) which states, “its only purpose is to provide a way in which some people find their own Internal Teacher”. ACIM is not intended to be another religion but is rather a non-dual, self-study program. Something that ICS has no doubt explored more than most organizations is that the forms different religions take when placed side by side, can be problematic and divisive even when in pursuit of the same expressed goals. Finding that common and essential unifying element then becomes the focus. ACIM touches on that when discussing some of the terminology it uses saying,
Theological considerations as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed.
The Introduction further says,
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
For info on in-person gatherings at the Sanctuary contact Jerry Kavalieratos acimseattle@yahoo.com
For Zoom gatherings, contact Dorothy Rhodes dotrodes@gmail.com
Previous contact: “Kaity” Katherine Macy at kaitymacy@aol.com ,
Chris Holland and Dorothy Rodes, are the usual facilitators of the in person and online ACIM groups respectively. While both have worked with the material for years, they are more in a role of simply helping the meeting come together in a positive way for all attending, many who also have studied this material for years. The direction of each meeting is a collaborative process among those attending in terms of what is discussed and concepts that are focused on.
As to the benefit of the ACIM groups, most might say that they facilitate understanding, leading to a changed perception in how we see ourselves, others, and the world.