Questions about visiting a Unity service

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I will be visiting a friend’s Unity faith community this weekend. I’ve posted a link to the group’s official website below. My questions are:
  1. Does anyone here know anything about this organization or have any involvement with it?
  2. I would like to stand out as a visitor as little as possible. Would it be inappropiate as a Catholic to stand when they stand for prayers? I won’t recite any prayers or partake of any communion service (which I do not believe they practice anyway). But I would not want to seem disrepectful by simply sitting through the whole service, unless standing would seem to imply a consent to that belief system. Non Catholic friends that have come to Mass with me have stood when I stood and sat when I kneeled. I’m just wondering the protocol the other way around I guess.
Sorry for the long winded thread. Any help would be greatly appreciated. God bless!

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GregC.:
I will be visiting a friend’s Unity faith community this weekend. I’ve posted a link to the group’s official website below. My questions are:
  1. Does anyone here know anything about this organization or have any involvement with it?
  2. I would like to stand out as a visitor as little as possible. Would it be inappropiate as a Catholic to stand when they stand for prayers? I won’t recite any prayers or partake of any communion service (which I do not believe they practice anyway). But I would not want to seem disrepectful by simply sitting through the whole service, unless standing would seem to imply a consent to that belief system. Non Catholic friends that have come to Mass with me have stood when I stood and sat when I kneeled. I’m just wondering the protocol the other way around I guess.
Sorry for the long winded thread. Any help would be greatly appreciated. God bless!
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Well, I don’t see your link lol, but…

There’s nothing wrong with standing when they do or sitting when they do. You can say all the prayers as long as there’s nothing bad in them (like id they prayed for the Catholic Church to end or something). Don’t take communion if they have one. Other than that, you can participate in anything they do as long as its not contrary to your faith, or as long as its not immoral or whatnot. I’d just be careful about what they say, of course. It might be fine, or it might be filled with falsehoods, so be careful. 🙂
 
I just read the website. Yeah, be really careful about what they say. This is some weird stuff. They seem very pantheistic, in fact. Really weird.
 
Lazer,
I was a member of Unity before I came home to the Church.

I don’t think you need to worry about either standing out or feeling particularly uncomfortable. They’re very much in to prayer , both communal and silent, (started as a prayer oriented denomination at the turn of the century) headquartered in Kansas City. They are often confused with the Unitarians, which they are not.

You will probably be made to feel quite welcome, their service centers around prayer, sermons on living a good life, and spiritual growth. Where I am from they are made up mostly of formerly disaffected Protestants and Catholics. I can only say in a charitable way, they are doctrinally free…you can hold any belief you want (including whether you believe in the actual deity of Christ). Most are exceptionally well meaning and loving, I never noticed a trace of anti-Catholicism or anti anything. While I loved the people there and their pastors, in the end, the theological and sacramental emptiness left me with only the same emptiness. While I no longer have ties with them, I do miss their goodness and respect their desire to pray for others. It is not a place, from my experience, in looking for answers or the truth.
May God Bless you!
 
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Lazer,
I was a member of Unity before I came home to the Church.

I don’t think you need to worry about either standing out or feeling particularly uncomfortable. They’re very much in to prayer , both communal and silent, (started as a prayer oriented denomination at the turn of the century) headquartered in Kansas City. They are often confused with the Unitarians, which they are not.

You will probably be made to feel quite welcome, their service centers around prayer, sermons on living a good life, and spiritual growth. Where I am from they are made up mostly of formerly disaffected Protestants and Catholics. I can only say in a charitable way, they are doctrinally free…you can hold any belief you want (including whether you believe in the actual deity of Christ). Most are exceptionally well meaning and loving, I never noticed a trace of anti-Catholicism or anti anything. While I loved the people there and their pastors, in the end, the theological and sacramental emptiness left me with only the same emptiness. While I no longer have ties with them, I do miss their goodness and respect their desire to pray for others. It is not a place, from my experience, in looking for answers or the truth.
May God Bless you!
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I too was a former member of Unity, now in RCIA. I agree completely with everything you said. It is a nice, welcoming atmosphere but lacking in depth and sacraments of course. Unity was nice for me at that point in my life but I’m sure glad to be “coming home”! 🙂

Amie
 
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BeluvdLily:
I too was a former member of Unity, now in RCIA. I agree completely with everything you said. It is a nice, welcoming atmosphere but lacking in depth and sacraments of course. Unity was nice for me at that point in my life but I’m sure glad to be “coming home”! 🙂

Amie
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Amie,
Amen! And welcome Home! In a strange circular kind of way, I am thankful for my time in Unity, and now see it as a time that I had to go through to find some peace before coming to the Catholic Church. I am convinced that I was too full of anger in those days and would have not been “open” to Catholicism. What happened through the grace of God was that I had to confront myself, and for whatever reason, it happened there. I wanted to grow at that point, and I passionately wanted truth, unvarnished, no matter what the cost. Thank God for the Catholic church, and what it calls us to!
May God bless your journey!
 
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