The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @shirleyjhaney1041
    @shirleyjhaney1041 2 роки тому +4

    People stay healthier longer I think when they’re involved and working. I really like the Shakers, I find them inspiring. Thank you.

  • @alexjboros9544
    @alexjboros9544 3 роки тому +14

    I visited and worshipped with the Shakers of the Sabbath Day Lake community a few years ago. I'm guessing it was around the time this video was made. I met and spoke in-person with Sister Frances. I was even able to sing one of their songs word for word during worship, as I had previously acquired a CD recording of some of their songs, and I had memorized one of their songs from the CD because I liked that particular song. Well, it just so happened that they sang that very song on the day that I joined them for worship, and I was able to stand with them and sing right along, word for word, note for note. Last but not least, prior to my visit I had heard or read about a prophecy -- a prophecy uttered by their spiritual mother many decades ago -- that when the number of Shakers remaining could be counted on one hand by a child, there would at that time be a spiritual revival of Shakerism in the world -- not just in their style of furniture and in their goods, nor just in their music, but a revival of their whole philosophy, beliefs, community, and way of life. It seems entirely possible to me that such a prophecy could, in fact, come true, and I hope it does, because the Shakers are a people of God. But I also hope that whatever revival in Shakerism that may some day come to pass would include the belief in the need for both marriage and reproduction in such Shaker-based communities of faith.

  • @TereseL11
    @TereseL11 9 років тому +41

    I had the great privilege of making a video documentary about the Shakers in the early 1970's. I knew Sister Mildred Barker and the other Shakers who have since passed on. I am very happy to see Sister Frances Carr speaking so well on this video, and singing. How I wish I could see her again! Among the comments to this video comes one from someone (Jim T by name) who questioned Shaker celibacy. As the Shakers explained to me those many years ago, celibacy was deemed necessary in order to build a community of brothers and sisters. Without it, people would naturally be more bonded to their own families. But the vision was of a larger family, working in community and serving each other and serving the world with a belief, put into daily practice, of equality and peace.

    • @bhilbert11
      @bhilbert11 6 років тому +4

      would you be able to post this video online?

    • @joostwinter
      @joostwinter 2 роки тому

      Not sure if you will read this (I am purely speaking from curiosity here, plus I'm six years after your comment), but I wonder... celibacy can mean two different things I would guess, namely on side no procreation, and on the other side no intimacy. And with intimacy, there seems to be this gradual progression from friendly intimacy, to something people would call 'more than friendly', i.e. sexual. Often, the aim of intimacy is not procreation but some form of bonding...
      I would be curious about understanding how the Shakers look at these matters.

    • @christinacody8653
      @christinacody8653 2 роки тому

      @@bhilbert11 Not sure it's the one this poster was a part of, but they were interviewed for a PBS Ken Burns documentary on the Shakers.

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 8 років тому +19

    I love the Shakers - beautiful music!

    • @katherinepady647
      @katherinepady647 7 років тому

      i think the person reading this is beautiful :) - adam sandler yes is me :)

    • @katherinepady647
      @katherinepady647 7 років тому

      As the REAL Adam Sandman, i would appreciate if you kept your ratchety ass off my lawn , mommy. GoShakers! And Goo see call me by your name, in selective (nond-iverse) theaters now

    • @stateyourthesis
      @stateyourthesis 2 роки тому

      @@katherinepady647 sus

  • @ngatihine6072
    @ngatihine6072 3 роки тому +3

    Fascinating. I love the ambience of that religious community.

  • @Rossion64
    @Rossion64 8 років тому +9

    This is a great spirituality-

  • @kennewicksheri
    @kennewicksheri 9 років тому +2

    Marvelous... thank you for sharing this ......
    Thank you

  • @bryanlint9327
    @bryanlint9327 6 років тому +14

    In an age where we buy for cheapness from China, paint is still on the wall after 200 years and looks as fresh as it was painted.

    • @kennethquesenberry2610
      @kennethquesenberry2610 5 років тому +2

      There has always been a market for cheap things. The only difference is, we used to make them ourselves here in our own factories.

  • @hendrikmahling2384
    @hendrikmahling2384 7 років тому +3

    anyone know the name of/ have the link to the tune being played in the background at the beginning?

    • @kathleenpang7138
      @kathleenpang7138 3 роки тому +1

      Probably “A Spiritual View” which is the first of the songs listed in the credits at the end of the video, along with more information about each song.

    • @charliemcgee9803
      @charliemcgee9803 Рік тому

      @@kathleenpang7138 thanks, I had had that same question.

  • @shilohmtfarm4578
    @shilohmtfarm4578 2 роки тому

    Does anyone have info on Medad Curtis? He was suppose to have saved Mother Lee. I think he was originally from Connecticut

  • @mike-vg6hl
    @mike-vg6hl 7 років тому +9

    I would go to live with the shakers, could be that posssible?

    • @bhilbert11
      @bhilbert11 6 років тому +4

      I would write to the Sabbath day lake community if you are interested.

    • @arloted
      @arloted 5 років тому +4

      @@bhilbert11 Their website has guidelines on how to join.

    • @arloted
      @arloted 5 років тому +1

      Their website has guidelines on how to join.

    • @bobsmith-ff8co
      @bobsmith-ff8co 4 роки тому +1

      You know, there are a lot of Catholic monasteries that are like this. There's a couple of them all over America. I'm pretty sure they allow visitors.

    • @joostwinter
      @joostwinter 2 роки тому +2

      You can perhaps draw inspiration from them rather than just try to 'live with them'? I think they have some very valuable insights, but they are insights that anyone anywhere in the world can imitate and include in their life; that to me it seems doesn't require moving to the existing Shaker community. Not sure either if they are actually soliciting for new members... anyway, I hope you will, at least, find the right inspiration!

  • @dennispearson9287
    @dennispearson9287 4 роки тому +9

    YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE THESE GUYS!!! TOO BAD THERE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION, BECAUSE THEY Forgot One Other Thing God Said,......... Namely....... BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY....... HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mike-vg6hl
    @mike-vg6hl 7 років тому +13

    Please don't let shakers disappear.

    • @goodgirlkay
      @goodgirlkay 5 років тому

      Umm... They made themselves disappear with their stupid celibacy rules. They weren't even as smart of the Catholics who have celibate clergy but preached reproduction to the laity.

    • @Droughtson
      @Droughtson 2 роки тому +4

      They have literally done it to themselves by being against marriage because “Christ never got married.”

    • @paintingwithcammiebourke3984
      @paintingwithcammiebourke3984 Рік тому +1

      They're against marriage and they're also against procreation so they're naturally dying off themselves unfortunately

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 місяців тому

      Become one yourself then.

    • @classicdesignfinds
      @classicdesignfinds 21 день тому

      There are only two left. But I think their faith can inspire us in the modern era so in a way they live on.

  • @Potencyfunction
    @Potencyfunction Рік тому

    " the shakers are very practical people"

  • @shirleyjhaney1041
    @shirleyjhaney1041 2 роки тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @RossGerard
    @RossGerard 8 років тому

    Interesting

  • @mylene2457
    @mylene2457 5 років тому

    What religion is this?

    • @alexjboros9544
      @alexjboros9544 3 роки тому +1

      Shakers are Christians, in that they believe in Lord Jesus the Christ

    • @Potencyfunction
      @Potencyfunction Рік тому

      Apart from the actual subject-the Sabath day is specific to Lutheran church and protestants.

  • @JavierBonillaC
    @JavierBonillaC 5 років тому +10

    It’s sad to think that we have not gained an inch spiritually from this good people. They are a sort of point of contact with Buddhism.

    • @christopherpugmire2969
      @christopherpugmire2969 3 роки тому +2

      Thank you for your insightful comment! :)

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 3 роки тому

      Monasticism!=Buddhism. There's almost nothing in common between this denomination and Buddhism.

    • @anahata2009
      @anahata2009 Рік тому +1

      How are they a point of contact with Buddhism? I'm not clear on what you mean to say.

    • @JavierBonillaC
      @JavierBonillaC Рік тому

      @@anahata2009 very ascetic.

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 6 місяців тому

      What the fuck does any of that mean?

  • @nicolea.bolger8400
    @nicolea.bolger8400 3 роки тому

    Hey guys 😩🤚

  • @Wunderlust76
    @Wunderlust76 3 місяці тому

    How can they claim older then the Amish Community in Lancaster PA? 1720s????

  • @petercarlson811
    @petercarlson811 8 років тому +4

    All these small groups who have to re-invent the wheel all the time. Ora et labora, pray and work, can at least be traced back to St Benedict of Ursia (480-550 AD). A little a head of the Mother of the shakers.

    • @ainhoaaparicio3729
      @ainhoaaparicio3729 4 роки тому +2

      I think that the equality part has escaped your attention. Also, the shaker's credo is more like, "labora et ora" which makes for quite an important nuance.

  • @bryanlint9327
    @bryanlint9327 6 років тому +6

    Listen to that beautiful plainsong. Look at the quality of the things that they had made. The Utopian communities failed because they left out faith in God.

    • @goodgirlkay
      @goodgirlkay 5 років тому +7

      It failed because they refused to reproduce. All long lasting religions depend on the children of members to sustain.

  • @rsm1161
    @rsm1161 5 років тому +1

    I thought they got called shakers due to their crazy leader that shook out evil spirits

    • @johnnydoe7616
      @johnnydoe7616 5 років тому

      I think you may be referring to the indian shakers of Washington State?

  • @billyb6001
    @billyb6001 10 місяців тому +1

    With artificial insemination, it wouldn’t be hard to be celibate and increase the numbers

    • @classicdesignfinds
      @classicdesignfinds 21 день тому

      You make a good point. I think most of their membership was elderly by the time that became mainstream though. From my understanding their celibacy wasn't just about refraining from lustfulness though, but also because they believe the apocalypse is soon there would be no reason to bring more children into the world.

  • @jimharbour5775
    @jimharbour5775 5 років тому

    how come you dont have childern

    • @g.pblack507
      @g.pblack507 3 роки тому +4

      Shakers practice celibacy

  • @Eric-steele
    @Eric-steele 5 років тому +4

    who else thought sister Frances was a man, no offense!