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Art by Coast Salish Artist Peter Boome on Exhibit in the Cathedral Nave

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 22, 2022 with No Comments

ON EXHIBIT APRIL 24–JUNE 5, in the cathedral nave UPDATE: Now extended through JULY 10 SUNDAY MORNING FORUM WITH THE ARTIST: APRIL 24, 10:10 A.M., in Bloedel Hall UPDATE: A complete video of the forum may be seen below. OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 12:30 P.M., cathedral nave 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 … Read More

PSALMATHON!—An Evensong Choir UK Pilgrimage Fundraiser

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 21, 2022 with No Comments

SATURDAY, MAY 14, 9 A.M. to 12 P.M., cathedral nave Do you have a beloved psalm? Join with the Evensong Choir for PSALMATHON 2022, a fundraiser for the choir’s 2022 UK Pilgrimage. Over 3 hours, we will sing 50 of our most beloved psalms, proclaiming them in a variety of musical forms. Parishioners are encouraged to sponsor one of our singers for a dollar amount per psalm or join in the singing with a sponsor of your own! Mark your … Read More

Liturgical Ministers Training—Eastertide 2022

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 21, 2022 with No Comments

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 6:45–8:15 P.M., online via Zoom ONLY; registration required You are invited! The next Liturgical Minister Training will be on Wednesday evening, May 4. We are offering this training for the first time at a Wednesday Evening Forum, and it will be online only via Zoom so that as many people as possible can attend. The format will be abridged from Liturgical Minister Trainings in past, as follows: 6:45-7:30 p.m.: Plenary and Theological Reflection led by Dean Thomason 7:30-8:15 p.m.: Breakouts by Liturgical Ministry, led by ministry leaders All Liturgical Ministers, or those interested in joining a … Read More

Beyoncé Mass at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 20, 2022 with 1 Comment

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 7 P.M., in the cathedral nave, registration required This groundbreaking Christian worship event, hosted and co-sponsored by Saint Mark’s, was created in 2018 by a team led by The Rev. Yolanda M. Norton (Disciples of Christ). Beyoncé Mass is a worship service rooted in womanist theology that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about Black women—their lives, their bodies, and their voices. What if “Flaws and All” was a … Read More

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

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on April 18, 2022 with 2 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

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.