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Cathedral Commons—Middle East Children’s Alliance: The Maia Project

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 18, 2022 with No Comments

UPDATE WITH VIDEO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 6:45 p.m.–8:15 P.M., in Bloedel Hall and via Zoom Join Zeiad Shamrouch, Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, as he discusses MECA’s Maia project, which is supported by Bishop Rickel and the Diocese of Olympia. The Maia Project began in 2007 when the Student Parliament at the UN Boys’ School in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza were given the opportunity to choose one thing they most wanted for their school: They chose to … Read More

Compline on Easter Day, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 17, 2022 with No Comments

Compline on The Feast of the Resurrection | April 17, 2022 Order of Service in Eastertide | Each week’s repertoire is posted here https://complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/17/compline-2022-the-feast-of-the-resurrection-easter-day/ April 17, 2022 • Easter Day PROCESSIONAL: Easter Canticle – Peter R. Hallock (1924–2014) PSALM 114 – Plainsong, Tonus peregrinus HYMN: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Tune: GAUDEAMUS PARITER) – Medieval Bohemian Carol Melody, 1544; vs. 2 harm. Hymnal 1940; vs. 3 harm. Harvey Grace (1874-1944) NUNC DIMITTIS: Plainsong setting, Tonus peregrinus; harm. William Byrd … Read More

The Feast of the Resurrection – Easter Day, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 17, 2022 with No Comments

The Feast of the Resurrection – Easter Day, 2022 Service Leaflet | Direct Vimeo link 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.

An Easter Message from Dean Thomason

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

Alleluia! Easter blessings to you, my friends! Each year at the Easter Vigil, the choirs of Saint Mark’s gather in the gallery to sing a special anthem at the Offertory, as we turn into the first Eucharist of Easter and hold for a moment the splendid ways that God is working out divine purpose in our lives, and in the world. It is a setting of a Kyivan/Kievan chant melody written by the Russian composer Pavlev Gregorievich Chesnokov more than … Read More

The Great Vigil of Easter, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 16, 2022 with No Comments

The Great Vigil of Easter, 2022 Service Leaflet | Direct Vimeo link 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.

Good Friday (Evening Service), 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 15, 2022 with No Comments

Good Friday (evening) | April 15, 2022, 7 p.m. Service Leaflet | Direct Vimeo link 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.

Good Friday (Noon Service), 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 15, 2022 with No Comments

Good Friday (noon) | April 15, 2022, 12 p.m. Service Leaflet | Direct Vimeo link 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.

Maundy Thursday – April 14, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 14, 2022 with No Comments

Maundy Thursday, 2022 Service Leaflet Following the Maundy Thursday liturgy, the Night Watch at the Altar of Repose was streamed all night, until Friday morning: 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.

“Easter Uprising” by Doug Thorpe

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 14, 2022 with No Comments

April 14, 2022 We will go into the future as a single sacred community or we will perish in the desert. —Thomas Berry People in Gaza rely on water from public filling stations. —Pollution on tap in Gaza It’s Shrove Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras—the night before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. As I’m waiting for a friend, a message on my phone alerts me to the information that it’s World Water Day. Water scarcity in the West Bank … Read More

Tenebrae – Wednesday in Holy Week, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 13, 2022 with No Comments

Tenebrae – Wednesday in Holy Week, 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.

Altar of Repose 2022: Online and In Person

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

The Night Watch at the Altar of Repose will be offered via livestream and in person this year. After Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday, some of the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist are placed on the altar in McCaw chapel, where they may be a focus for prayer and meditation through the night. We remember the agony of Jesus’ final night before his crucifixion, and we remember his challenge to the disciples: “Could you not keep awake one … Read More

Belden Lane at Saint Mark’s: Ravished by Nature’s Beauty

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 13, 2022 with 2 Comments

UPDATED WITH VIDEO FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022, 6:30–8:30 P.M. and SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 9:30 A.M.–3 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall or online via Zoom. Registration required. An offering from The Wisdom School at Saint Mark’s Ravished by Nature’s Beauty—Longing for God A two-part workshop led by Belden C. Lane The Christian mystical tradition can be deeply earthy and sensual in its yearning for union with the Divine. Hildegard of Bingen and Teresa of Avila found a wondrous God in trees and … Read More

Compline on Palm Sunday, 2022

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

Compline on Palm Sunday | April 10, 2022 Order of Service in Lent/Passiontide | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. https://complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/compline-2022-the-sunday-of-the-passion-palm-sunday/ April 10, 2022 • The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday ORISON: Domine, ne longe facias – Plainsong, Mode VIII PSALM 22:1-11 – Plainsong, Tone IV.1 RESPOND: In manus tuas – John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558) HYMN 168: O sacred head, sore wounded (Tune: HERZLICH TUT MICH VERLANGEN) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); adapt. and harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) NUNC DIMITTIS … Read More

Palm Sunday 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 10, 2022 with 1 Comment

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday | April 10, 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.

A Celebration of the Life of Christopher Bryson – April 9, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 9, 2022 with No Comments

A Celebration of the Life of Christopher Bryson 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 Levertov Award: Reading & Celebration with The Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 8, 2022 with No Comments

The Levertov Award: Reading & Celebration with The Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams | April 6, 2022, 7 p.m. 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.

An Introduction to Holy Week at Saint Mark’s, 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 7, 2022 with No Comments

A note about pandemic safety: The current state of pandemic safety precautions is explained in this message and video. There will be no pre-registration or screening at the door for any of this year’s services. Masks are now optional in the cathedral building, but a “masked & distanced” section is set aside on the south side of the nave. Spaces in the masked and distanced section are limited, and available on a first-come, first served basis. The following services will … Read More

A Message from Jaime, Keiko, and Yoshi

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 7, 2022 with 3 Comments

Jamie, our guest in Sanctuary since March of 2019, his wife Keiko, and their son Yoshi have shared the following message of thanks to the cathedral community, as they begin the next stage of their journey. Dear Saint Mark’s community, After 3 years of living in Sanctuary at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Jaime is ready to transition back to our home in the Shoreline community where we built our life together. Looking back, we did not know what our journey would … Read More

Candlelit Prayer with Music from Taizé, April 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 5, 2022 with No Comments

Candlelight Prayer with Music from Taizé | April 5, 2022, 7 p.m. 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.

Forum with Duwamish Tribal Chair, The Hon. Cecile Hansen

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 4, 2022 with No Comments

Forum with Duwamish Tribal Chair, The Hon. Cecile Hansen | April 3, 2022 Learn More Here Saint Mark’s supports the Duwamish Tribe’s struggle to restore their federal recognition. Click the button to learn more and sign the petition.

Compline on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 2022

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

Compline on the Fourth Sunday in Lent | March 27, 2022, 9:30 p.m. Order of Service in Lent | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. complineunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/compline-2022-the-fifth-sunday-in-lent/ April 3, 2022 • The Fifth Sunday in Lent ORISON: Judica me Deus – Plainsong, Mode IV PSALM 126 – Plainsong, Tone I.9 HYMN: Drop, drop, slow tears (Tune: SONG 46) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) NUNC DIMITTIS – Plainsong setting, Tone IV.2 ANTHEM: Lamentations of Jeremiah – Osbert Parsley (c. 1511-1585) Jason Anderson, director • … Read More

Choral Evensong on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 3, 2022 with No Comments

Choral Evensong on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, 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 Fifth Sunday in Lent, 2022

by Christopher Brown on April 3, 2022 with No Comments

The Fifth Sunday in Lent, 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.

Sound Bath Aural Meditation by Black Moon Company

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 2, 2022 with No Comments

UPDATE: THIS WILL NOW BE A MONTHLY OFFERING, ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EACH MONTH, STARTING JUNE 20, 2022. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 7:30 P.M. (immediately following Cathedral Yoga) On the Monday after Easter, Cathedral Yoga will host a 30-minute sound bath/aural meditation by Black Moon Company, a Seattle musician and Reiki practitioner. The yoga class is offered as usual from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and the sounds will begin shortly afterwards. You are welcome to attend the sound bath without … Read More

Stand with the Duwamish: A Forum with Duwamish Tribal Chair The Hon. Cecile Hansen

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 2, 2022 with No Comments

Saint Mark’s supports the Duwamish Tribe’s struggle to restore their federal recognition. Click the button to learn more and sign the petition. UPDATED WITH VIDEO SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 6:30–7:30 P.M., in the cathedral nave and livestreamed For over 35 years, Cecile Hansen has been the elected chair of the Duwamish Tribe. She is the great-great grandniece of Chief Si’ahl’. On Sunday, April 3, Cecile Hansen will speak at Saint Mark’s Cathedral on the efforts of the Duwamish Tribe to gain … Read More