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Treasures of the Cathedral: The Thomsen Chapel Processional Cross

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 30, 2022 with No Comments

by Gregory Bloch, Director of Communications The Thomsen Chapel processional cross is one of the most liturgical adornments in the collection of Saint Mark’s Cathedral, but unless you attend the a.m. service, you may never have seen it. It has always been clear just by looking that the cross is a precious object. However, after a recent restoration, repair, and cleaning, it now gleams and sparkles in a way that it has not for many decades. We know an unusual … Read More

Saint Mark’s Community Meal Delivery

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 28, 2022 with No Comments

Would you like to be part of a new endeavor to provide and/or deliver meals to parishioners with a new baby or who are recovering from illness or surgery? Canon Wendy Claire Barrie is gathering names and contact information from folks who are willing, and she will then let you know specifics (who, what, where) when the need arises. We have two families with new babies right now who would be the first to benefit from this coordinated effort! A … Read More

Service Corps Welcome Wagon

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 28, 2022 with No Comments

Join the Service Corps Welcome Wagon! The 2022–23 Seattle Service Corps cohort arrives Saturday, August 27, and help is needed to make them feel welcomed and at home. If you would like to help next month as we put the finishing touches on their living space at Leffler House, or if you would like to be part of providing some homey hospitality throughout the year, especially around the holidays, please email Canon Barrie: wbarrie@saintmarks.org Pantry Pouding The members of each … Read More

Mary Magdalene: A Tower of Lineage—A Saturday Gathering with The Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 28, 2022 with No Comments

UPDATED WITH VIDEO SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2022, 9:30 A.M.–2:30 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall or online via Zoom A Saturday gathering led by The Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining Mary Magdalene has rightly been called “the Apostle to the Apostles” because of her important witness to the life, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus. However, few people today truly understand the sheer magnitude of her contribution to the Jesus movement itself. Recent scholarship counts her as one of the shapers of … Read More

20s/30s Explore Bainbridge Day

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 26, 2022 with No Comments

UPDATED WITH PHOTOS SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 10 A.M.–3 P.M. Let’s take a day trip to Bainbridge! We will take a tour of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church with a break for coffee and conversation. Next, we’ll visit the Japanese Exclusion Memorial to reflect and remember those forced to leave their home for internment camps. We’ll enjoy lunch at the home of John Simmons and Scott Hulet with the option for exploring a trail to the Halls Hill labyrinth, Blakely Harbor, and … Read More

The Women’s Compline Choir on the 7th Sunday after Pentecost 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 24, 2022 with No Comments

The Women’s Compline Choir on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost | July 24, 2022 Compline on July 17 and July 24 will be sung by the Women’s Compline Choir, directed by Rebekah Gilmore. The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/compline-2022-the-seventh-sunday-after-pentecost/ July 24, 2022 • The 7th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12C) ORISON: Lumen – Abbie Betinis PSALM 122 – Peter R. Hallock, ed. Jason Anderson HYMN: Now the day is over – Joseph Barnby, adapt. Greg … Read More

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Christopher Brown on July 24, 2022 with No Comments

The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Intersectionality and Environmentalism: A Reflection by The Rev. Edie Weller

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 19, 2022 with No Comments

The Intersection Between Environmentalism, Racism, and Privilege A Program at Town Hall Seattle on May 10, 2022 Reflections by The Rev. Edie Weller Leah Thomas, author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People and Planet (2022), recently spoke with Hannah Wilson, Farm Manager at Yes Farm, leader of the Black Famers Collective and co-chair of the Environmental Justice Commission of the City of Seattle, as part of a program offered by Town Hall Seattle. … Read More

“Moments in the Wilderness” by Doug Thorpe

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 19, 2022 with 2 Comments

July 19, 2022 It’s an old game I’d often play with my students to jog them into writing, especially in Spring Quarter as we moved into May. We all get a little restless indoors by this point in the academic year, sitting in a sterile classroom; we start to feel some warmth rising up from the earth and can imagine again a life beyond the rain and cold. So I’d ask: if you could be anywhere in the world right … Read More

The Women’s Compline Choir on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 17, 2022 with No Comments

The Women’s Compline Choir on the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost | July 17, 2022 Compline on July 17 and July 24 will be sung by the Women’s Compline Choir, directed by Rebekah Gilmore. The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: https://complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/compline-2022-the-sixth-sunday-after-pentecost/ July 17, 2022 • The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 11C) ORISON: Portum in ultimo – Codex Calixtinus PSALM 116 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: Through all this world below (Tune: CAPTAIN KIDD) – arr. … Read More

The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 17, 2022 with No Comments

The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Compline on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 10, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | July 10, 2022 The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/07/10/compline-2022-the-fifth-sunday-after-pentecost/ July 10, 2022 • The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10C) Love for neighbor ORISON: God be in my head – Doug Fullington (b. 1969) PSALM 25:1-8, 10-11, 13-14, 21 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O God of earth and altar (Tune: KING’S LYNN) – English folk melody; harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Gregory W. Bloch … Read More

The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, 2022

by Christopher Brown on July 10, 2022 with No Comments

The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Compline on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on July 3, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost | July 3, 2022 The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/07/03/compline-2022-the-fourth-sunday-after-pentecost/ Service offered with special intention for our member David Gary, who is currently in intensive care after a head injury. Dean Steve Thomason is joining the choir this evening. July 3, 2022 • The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 9C) ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron,’ from The Evening Service – Stephen Sturk (b. 1950) PSALM 66:1-11 – Peter R. Hallock … Read More

The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, 2022

by Christopher Brown on July 3, 2022 with No Comments

The Fourth Fourth After Pentecost, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

The Women’s Compline Choir, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 30, 2022 with 3 Comments

UPDATE: The next Women’s Compline Choir services will be JULY 30 & AUGUST 6, 2023. SEE DETAILS ABOUT THE 2023 SERVICES HERE. SUNDAYS, JULY 17 & 24, 2022, 9:30 P.M., in the cathedral nave, broadcast, and livestreamed In the summer of 2019, the Office of Compline was chanted by an ensemble of women for the first time in the six-decade history of Compline at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle. These beautifully-sung services were deeply moving to many. In the word of … Read More

A Special Note of Thanks from The Rev. Linzi Stahlecker

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 30, 2022 with No Comments

JULY 1, 2022 Saint Mark’s Cathedral’s Curate was ordained to the priesthood in a special ordination liturgy last Wednesday, June 29. The complete liturgy may be seen here (or on youtube). She sends the following note or gratitude to the community: “I am so grateful for all who attended my ordination, and for all who offered their prayerful support from afar. I could not be more thrilled to be serving my curacy in the midst of this community at Saint … Read More

Ordination to the Sacred Order of Priests on the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

by Christopher Brown on June 29, 2022 with No Comments

Ordination to the Sacred Order of Priests Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Compline on the Third Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 26, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on the Third Sunday after Pentecost | June 26, 2022 The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/compline-2022-the-third-sunday-after-pentecost/ June 26, 2022 • The Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8C) ORISON (H 36): O gladsome Light (Tune: LE CANTIQUE DE SIMÉON) – mel. Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559); harm. Claude Goudimel (1514-1572) PSALM 16 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (Tune: COMMANDMENTS) – Loys Bourgeois (c. 1510-1559) NUNC DIMITTIS –Plainsong, … Read More

The Third Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Christopher Brown on June 26, 2022 with No Comments

The Third Sunday After Pentecost, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Responding to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 24, 2022 with No Comments

UPDATE: A NEW statement from Bishop Greg Rickel The Dean’s Sermon “Protest as a Pastoral Response” (pdf) Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s message Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Contact Legislators and urge them to guarantee reproductive freedom (via The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations) JUNE 24, 2022 Dear friends, Today our nation received the news we’ve been expecting for several weeks now—that a divided Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and Casey decisions which had for nearly fifty years ensured … Read More

Compline on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 19, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on the Second Sunday after Pentecost/Juneteenth | June 19, 2022 The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: https://complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/compline-2022-the-second-sunday-after-pentecost/ June 19, 2022 • The Second Sunday after Pentecost/Juneteenth/Father’s Day (Proper 7C) ORISON: ‘Phos hilaron’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969) PSALM 22:22-30 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: ‘Te lucis ante terminum’ from Music for Compline – Kevin Siegfried NUNC DIMITTIS – Dana Marsh (b. 1965) ANTHEM: There is a balm in … Read More

The Second Sunday After Pentecost, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 19, 2022 with No Comments

The First Sunday After Pentecost: Trinity Sunday, 2022 Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Ordinations to the Sacred Order Of Priests

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 13, 2022 with No Comments

Ordinations to the Sacred order of Priests Service Leaflet LEAFLETS The Service Leaflet contains all you need to fully participate in each liturgy from home. NEWSLETTER The weekly cathedral newsletter contains important announcements, offerings, and events. Click here to add yourself to cathedral emails lists. ARCHIVES Video of past services can be seen here. Audio and printed text of sermons can be found here.

Compline on Trinity Sunday, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on June 12, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on Trinity Sunday—The First Sunday after Pentecost | June 12, 2022 The Order of Service and repertoire may be found at: https://complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/06/12/compline-2022-the-first-sunday-after-pentecost-trinity-sunday/ June 12, 2022 • The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday ORISON: O Trinity of blessed Light – Jeff Junkinsmith (b. 1956) PSALM 113 – Jason A. Anderson (b. 1976) HYMN: Holy God, we praise thy Name (Tune: GROSSER GOTT) – mel. from Katholisches Gesangbuch, 1686; harm. Charles Winfred Douglas (1867-1944), after Conrad Kocher (1786-1872); vs. 4 … Read More