Eccles Quaker Friends Meeting

29/03/2026

It's 7:52! Clocks changed. Lunch is at about 12.30 if you plan to come to Eccles Quaker Meeting to meet nice kind people, mostly vegetarian food.

28/03/2026

Hello, good morning! 2 pages of quotes from a Quaker Faith and Practice book! It's all on personal journeys.

22/03/2026

Take a moment to read this quiet poem.

"My Birthday" poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, born on this day in 1807

Beneath the moonlight and the snow
Lies dead my latest year;
The winter winds are wailing low
Its dirges in my ear.

I grieve not with the moaning wind
As if a loss befell;
Before me, even as behind,
God is, and all is well!

His light shines on me from above,
His low voice speaks within,--
The patience of immortal love
Outwearying mortal sin.

Not mindless of the growing years
Of care and loss and pain,
My eyes are wet with thankful tears
For blessings which remain.

If dim the gold of life has grown,
I will not count it dross,
Nor turn from treasures still my own
To sigh for lack and loss.

The years no charm from Nature take;
As sweet her voices call,
As beautiful her mornings break,
As fair her evenings fall.

Love watches o'er my quiet ways,
Kind voices speak my name,
And lips that find it hard to praise
Are slow, at least, to blame.

How softly ebb the tides of will!
How fields, once lost or won,
Now lie behind me green and still
Beneath a level sun.

How hushed the hiss of party hate,
The clamor of the throng!
How old, harsh voices of debate
Flow into rhythmic song!

Methinks the spirit's temper grows
Too soft in this still air;
Somewhat the restful heart foregoes
Of needed watch and prayer.

The bark by tempest vainly tossed
May founder in the calm,
And he who braved the polar frost
Faint by the isles of balm.

Better than self-indulgent years
The outflung heart of youth,
Than pleasant songs in idle ears
The tumult of the truth.

Rest for the weary hands is good,
And love for hearts that pine,
But let the manly habitude
Of upright souls be mine.

Let winds that blow from heaven refresh,
Dear Lord, the languid air;
And let the weakness of the flesh
Thy strength of spirit share.

And, if the eye must fail of light,
The ear forget to hear,
Make clearer still the spirit's sight,
More fine the inward ear!

Be near me in mine hours of need
To soothe, or cheer, or warn,
And down these slopes of sunset lead
As up the hills of morn!

25/02/2026

Thought for the day

15/02/2026

07/12/2025

After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turned down the volume of the world

07/12/2025

Fancy a simple lunch with easy crafts and Quaker peacefulness? Eccles Quaker meetinghouse, Wellington Rd,the Polygon, M30 0DS, also tram and bus. Starts at 12.30/1:00, ends about 2.30

01/12/2025

From quakers to you.

30/11/2025

An Asylum seeker is someone seeking to be agreed as a Refugee. Just saying.....

30/11/2025

By definition, A Refugee is someone seeking protection from terrific violence in the country of origin. One cannot just stop considering their cases, under well-agreed international law.

09/11/2025

It's Sunday, all welcome at your quiet peaceful Eccles Quaker meeting 10.45 . Avoid the crowds and the war memorials, focus on peace and love,... lovingness has no end.

Image: actual quakers chatting after our meeting. (With their permission )

03/11/2025

Quaker John Dalton - Devised the atomic theory of matter in the early 1800s. . .
Quaker Joseph Lister - Discovered antiseptics; Listerine is named after him!!

Quakers Thomas Hodgkins and Thomas Young - Inventors of the microscope!!!

Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Discovered the first reported pulsar; first female president of the Institute of Physics (and also Clerk of London Yearly Meeting) !!!!

… and Arthur David of Adelphi Friends Meeting taught YOUR phone to change time on daylight savings time!

(I got this on my feed, do you know more facts? Add them or add photos.) Thanks!