Eat! Play! Love! 2024: Sacred Journeys

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PLEASE NOTE:

Due to scheduling conflicts, this year's Eat! Play! Love! offering has been cancelled. Many of the activities planned will instead be offered at the Baptismal Pilgrimage: Remember Your Baptism! on the afternoon of Saturday, September 7. Learn more here.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 5–8 P.M. (includes dinner) and SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 10 A.M.–1 P.M. (includes lunch). In Bloedel Hall and throughout the cathedral campus. Registration required.

First offered in the summer of 2019, Eat! Play! Love! (Not Your Average Bible Study) is an intergenerational opportunity to share a meal, learn, explore, and have fun together at the cathedral.

In this special weekend of community, connection, and creativity, all ages come together to actively explore the theme of Sacred Journeys—in scripture and in our own lives. What makes a journey sacred? What do we need to take with us? And what do we need to leave behind? How might we be changed by our travels?

This year's theme builds on the cathedral's focus on pilgrimage and sacred spaces. Through story, conversation, art, music, making, and more, we'll explore the stories of Abraham and Sarah and The Boy Jesus in the Temple at Jerusalem.

Some activities are intended for whole-group participation, and there will be a variety of creative and reflective opt-in activities that invite reflection and creative imagination around our own adventurous paths.

Participants will gather Friday evening—including dinner and Holden Evening Prayer—and Saturday morning until 1 p.m.—including lunch, snacks, and a sending liturgy. You are welcome to come for both days, or just one.

Fee: $30 for both days, with a maximum of $75 per family. (If you can only attend one of the meals, please pay $15 per meal.) The ability to pay should not be a barrier to participation. Email Canon Barrie with any concerns: wbarrie@saintmarks.org

Activities will include:

  • a collaborative mural mapping our sacred spaces
  • theological reflection
  • drum circle
  • choosing and decorating a walking stick
  • building cairns
  • Wonder Walk to Volunteer Park
  • walking the labyrinths and making your own finger labyrinths
  • footprint painting
  • making prayer cards and travel journals
  • trail mix bar

Check out some photos from previous years' iterations of Eat! Play! Love! below (click to enlarge).

 

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