Blog - Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral

On Sabbatical Odysseys and Dark Nights + Very Rev. Steve Thomason + August 2, 2026

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on August 3, 2026 with No Comments

LINKS 📄 Service Leaflets 📺 Worship video archive 🗣️ Sermon archive Genesis 32:22-31 The same night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on … Read More

The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost | July 26, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 26, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

Finding the Pearl + Rev. Canon Emily Griffin + July 26, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 26, 2026 with No Comments

I won’t bury the lead today. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. That is the good news.… Read More

Sermon for The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost + Rev. Adam Conley + July 19, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 20, 2026 with No Comments

Jesus put before the crowd another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.… Read More

The Eighth Sunday After Pentecost | July 19, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 19, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

Healing & Hope in War Zones

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 13, 2026 with No Comments

SUMMER 2025 Presented by Saint Mark’s Visual Arts Ministry and Sacred Spaces, this new exhibit features artwork by children from Gaza and Ukraine, offering a glimpse into the realities of war through the eyes of the young. The display will be located in the back of the cathedral nave near the coffee/cookie corner. All are invited to an opening reception immediately following the 11 a.m. service on July 13, with remarks from D’Vorah Kost and Rev. Mark Miller. Refreshments will be generously provided … Read More

Sacred Beauty: Images of the Holy

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 13, 2026 with No Comments

photographs by Jim Friedrich SUMMER 2025 Episcopal priest and artist Jim Friedrich has shared photos from cathedrals and settings in Italy, France, and England that have been assembled to show how the beauty of holiness speaks through sacred spaces and religious forms. Jim has been active as a photographer and filmmaker for decades, teaching theology and arts at Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, and blogging at The Religious Imagineer (jimfriedrich.com). This exhibit is presented by the Saint Mark’s Visual Arts Ministry.

Sacred Icons

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 13, 2026 with No Comments

by Fr. Peter Pearson January–March and Eastertide, 2025 Icons have served since the earliest days of Christianity as spiritual aids, and they have enjoyed something of a renaissance of spiritual purpose in recent times. Byzantine iconography is an ancient and deeply prayerful art form in the Christian tradition, dating back nearly to the apostolic times. Over the centuries, it has evolved and developed as the faith spread throughout the world. Iconography follows a highly systematic and disciplined process which has … Read More

Stations of the Cross

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 13, 2026 with No Comments

by Virginia Maksymowicz Since 2018, the Stations of the Cross by artist Virginia Maksymowicz have been displayed in the nave of Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle each Lent. Although they were originally commissioned by St Thomas Episcopal Church in Lancaster, PA—a very different kind of church interior than Saint Mark’s—their elemental quality and stark appearance resonate visually and spiritually with the nave of Saint Mark’s. Many are surprised to learn that they were not created specifically for this space! In fact, they have only been on loan to … Read More

Coast Salish Art

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by Peter Boome April 2022 through July 2022 The Visual Arts Ministry of Saint Mark’s Cathedral and Saint Mark’s Creation Care Ministry are delighted to co-sponsor an exhibition of works by Peter Boome, Coast Salish Artist and member of the Upper Skagit Tribe of Washington State, April 24–June 5 in the cathedral nave. He works in a variety of mediums, and his exhibition at Saint Mark’s will include both prints and paintings. Each of his works tells a story, and his exhibition at Saint … Read More

Sanctuary

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 13, 2026 with No Comments

site-specific textile installation by Josh Faught January 2017 – October 2018 For Sanctuary, a commissioned work for Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, Josh Faught creates a textile that extends the length of the cathedral’s massive southeast pillar. Through woven texts, sheet music, DVDs, and archival documents affixed to the textile’s face, the work integrates popular and sacred music, a supernatural soap opera, and records of gay politics, sexuality, and culture in Seattle. Bringing together craft, sociopolitical, and personal histories, Sanctuary also links expressions … Read More

The Profligate Sower + Rev. Canon Rich Weyls + July 12, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 12, 2026 with No Comments

Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach.… Read More

The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost | July 12, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 12, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost | July 5, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 5, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

A History That Holds + Rev. Canon Emily Griffin + July 5, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on July 5, 2026 with No Comments

What kind of origin story is this? We want our founding fathers and mothers to be heroes, don’t we? We want them to be exceptional. We want them to model how we can use our freedom to liberate others and be an example of justice and righteousness to the world – and instead, we get the book of Genesis. … Read More

Can We Talk? + Rev. Canon Rich Weyls + June 28, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 28, 2026 with No Comments

“Oh, my Gawd. Can we talk?” This is a signature phrase from my friend Julie, a native New Yorker, rabbi, and hospital chaplain. She would proclaim this whenever she was confronted with something really challenging.… Read More

The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost | June 28, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 28, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost + Rev. Carol Westphal + June 21, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 21, 2026 with No Comments

Jesus said to the twelve disciples, “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master.… Read More

The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost | June 21, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 21, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

Doubling Down on Compassion + Rev. Canon Emily Griffin + June 14, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 14, 2026 with No Comments

It helps to know the whole story. Otherwise, it’s too easy to turn today’s Gospel into a “gotcha” moment and put Jesus or Matthew, our Gospel writer, on trial for smallness of heart. … Read More

The Third Sunday After Pentecost | June 14, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 14, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More

Your Faith Has Made You Well+ Rev. Adam Conley + June 7, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 8, 2026 with No Comments

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples.… Read More

The Second Sunday After Pentecost | June 7, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on June 7, 2026 with No Comments

Livestream recording of the 11 a.m. Sunday worship service.… Read More

THE imago DEI + Rev. Canon Rich Weyls + May 31, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on May 31, 2026 with No Comments

Bishop LaBelle has released a pastoral letter on this Trinity Sunday, and he has asked that we read it at all our Sunday services. In the letter, Bishop +Phil offers some theological reflection on the Trinitarian mystery as it relates to a recent decision by our government regarding immigration. His letter is about five minutes long, so I will keep my reflections complimentary and brief.… Read More

The First Sunday After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday | May 31, 2026

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on May 31, 2026 with No Comments

LEAFLETS 📄 View the Service Leaflet for this service. ➡️ View past Service Leaflets NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events, can be found here. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. The weekly cathedral prayer list, which includes the Anglican, Diocesan, and Cathedral Cycles of Prayer along with prayer requests from the community, can be found here. Information about making prayer requests can also be found on that page. ARCHIVES Video of past … Read More