World Invocation Day Vigil 
Wednesday, June 18 2008
You are invited to participate in two Vigils for World Invocation Day, sounding the Great Invocation every 15 minutes for the 24 hours of Wednesday June 18.
Vigil for the Americas - in co-operation with groups throughout the continent
Vigil for New Zealand - in co-operation with the Triangle Centre.
Thank you for your participation in these Vigils. From 2:30 AM UST/GMT on Tuesday June 17 to
4:00 AM UST/GMT on Thursday June 19 the Great Invocation was sounded across the Americas every 15 minutes by never less than 4 individuals or groups. The maximum number of registrations for any 15 minute time slot was 23, and the average number of participants for each time slot, 11.72.
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- Every year since 1952 people in all parts of the world have celebrated World Invocation Day on the day of the Gemini Full Moon. It is a global day of prayer and meditation when people of different spiritual paths join in a universal appeal to divinity, using the Great Invocation.
- Groups around the world organise a wide range of gatherings to observe the Day, inviting people of goodwill to use the Great Invocation in their prayers and meditations. These Vigils mark a further contribution to the global focus - with a particular emphasis on the continent of the Americas and on the small Pacific nation of New Zealand.
Sounding the Great Invocation every 15 minutes
The 24 hours of June 18 are divided into 15 minute periods. Participants ( individuals or groups) commit themselves to spend specific 15 minute periods in prayer or meditation for a world culture of co-operation, justice and peace. Each 15 minute period is to begin and end with a sounding of the Great Invocation. There is no limit to the number of 15 minute periods you can register for.
How to participate:
1. You can choose the times you will take part in the Vigil and register your participation here or you can simply take part on the day without registering. By registering your name will appear in a Participants List covering each time slot so that you can link with others holding the focus at the same time.
2. Sign Up - register any periods of time in your own time zone.
3. View Participants - click the button to see who has registered to sound the Great Invocation for each 15 minutes in the Vigil of your choice (Americas or NZ) - all times will be converted into your own time zone .
4. Begin precisely on the quarter hour by using the Great Invocation.
5. Link in thought with the others who are linking at the same precise time as you and then with everyone in the world who will be using the Great Invocation on this special day.
6. Reflect on humanity's need for light, love and spiritual purpose.
7. Visualise the lighted, loving energies that can create the mental and emotional understanding and atmosphere within which right relations can flourish in ourselves, our communities, our nations, and our world
7. Use the Great Invocation precisely on the quarter hour. As you do this think of the rhythmic pulse of invocation flooding the mental environment of the planet.
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