WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2024, 6:45–8:15 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall and online via Zoom. 

Program is free; optional community dinner at 6 p.m. ($8/adult; $25/family max.)

"Cathedral Commons" resumes this Wednesday, September 11. Join Dean Thomason and invited guests—Deacon Frank DiGirolamo and others from Operation Nightwatch, with whom Saint Mark’s is partnering to provide a new Women’s Shelter on the cathedral property, launching later this fall in space formerly occupied by Gage Academy of Arts in the St. Nicholas building. The shelter will serve up to twenty women nightly and will have showers, laundry, a clinical care room, and lockers where women can secure their belongings. We will begin with a consideration of the lack of adequate shelter beds in Seattle and reasons for it, then learn more about the important ministry of Operation Nightwatch, and finally share some of the details of the new shelter at Saint Mark’s as a sacramental sign of our commitment to seek and serve Christ in all persons. Those present in Bloedel will have the opportunity to tour the rooms in the St. Nicholas building where the shelter will be located.

UPDATE: A complete video is now available. A few snapshots of the tour of the space that followed the forum can be seen below the video (click to enlarge.)