SPIRITUALITY

Spiritual Links    is a program of prayer services which applies spiritual resources to the needs of social and cultural agencies.  Each prayer service focuses upon the specific needs of a particular social or cultural organization in the Philadelphia area. Those needs are then made the subject of intense intercessory prayer in a worship service dedicated entirely to that organization.    

Organizations selected for a Spiritual Link each have a mission or advocacy related to important social issues or to the fine arts.   The organization is asked about its current priorities and needs.  Then, a special worship service is constructed around that organization, its mission and its particular present needs, which become the focus of  meditation and prayer.   

Each prayer service takes place in a church in the greater Philadelphia area.

Host churches are selected on the basis of their openness to diversity, their progressive social ideals, their support of the arts, their desire for outreach, their practice of intercessory prayer, and the quality of their worship life. Sacred music is provided by Philadelphia-area artists in support of Spiritual Links. Times and locations of Spiritual Links are announced in the host church and are posted on this web site on the Spiritual Links page.

New Year's Day Prayer Sanctuary    At the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion on the afternoon of New Year's Day, The Alethia Foundation sponsors an open prayer sanctuary.  Persons of all faiths and traditions are welcome.   You are invited to come as you are and come and go as you like.

What is offered is "sanctuary," sacred silence, a quiet, holy place, a refuge for meditation, reflection and prayer.  The silence is broken only by the sound of sacred music offered at intervals by Philadelphia-area artists.   A printed meditation guide is provided for optional use.

Those who seek sacred connections or a contemplative pause  at the beginning hours of the  new year, will find a safe haven in Philadelphia in the sanctuary of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion.