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Emergency Preparedness Workshop

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on October 22, 2025 with 6 Comments

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 9 A.M. to 2:30 P.M., Bloedel Hall. Fee: $25, includes lunch. UPDATE: Video, slides, and handouts form this event are now available on a dedicated page here. For copyright and security concerns, these materials are password protected. Email jjuddherzfeldt@saintmarks.org for the password to access. Active Assailants and Emergencies on Faith-based Properties: Video & Resources Topics Covered: The Roles and Commitment of a Safety Ministry Team “The First 30 Seconds”-Case Studies of Active Assailants and Killers and Lessons … Read More

Compline on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 19, 2025 with No Comments

Compline on the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 19, 2025 Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/compline-2025-the-nineteenth-sunday-after-pentecost/ October 19, 2025 • The 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24C) ORISON: Be present, O merciful God – Roupen Shakarian (b. 1950) PSALM 15 (Setting I) – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Roupen Shakarian NUNC DIMITTIS – … Read More

The 19th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 19, 2025 with No Comments

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 19, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

Special Parish Forum: Affordable Housing Project Updates

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on October 16, 2025 with No Comments

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025 At a special Cathedral Commons forum on Dec. 10, the Affordable Housing Committee, along with partners Redwood Housing, Uncommon Bridges, and Kendall Clawson, shared key updates regarding the affordable housing project on the cathedral campus. Highlights include announcing a finalized joint development agreement between Saint Mark’s and Redwood Housing, previewing insights into design considerations, deepening community engagement, and discussing Saint Mark’s emerging community-based organization (CBO). Learn about the history of the project up to this point … Read More

Taizé Prayer remembering St. Teresa of Ávila

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 14, 2025 with No Comments

Prayer in the Style of Taizé | Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Liturgy honoring St Teresa of Ávila, on the eve of her feast day Learn more about Taizé at Saint Mark’s here. 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 … Read More

Compline on the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 12, 2025 with No Comments

Compline on the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 12, 2025 Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/compline-2025-the-eighteenth-sunday-after-pentecost/ October 12, 2025 • The 18th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: ‘Now the day is over,’ from Ten Orisons – M. Searle Wright (1918-2004) PSALM 145 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: I’ll praise my Maker while I’ve breath (Tune: OLD 113TH) – Melody from Strassburger Kirchenamt, 1525; harm. Peter … Read More

The 18th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 12, 2025 with No Comments

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 12, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

Cathedral Commons – Forum on the Archbishop of Canterbury

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on October 9, 2025 with 1 Comment

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6:45–8:15 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall and online via Zoom WITH THE REV. ADAM CONLEY The recent election of Sarah Mullaly as the first woman to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury is an historic event. What is the Archbishop of Canterbury all about? How did this clerical role gain such primacy? What does the recent election mean for the Episcopal Church, the Church of England, and the worldwide Anglican Communion? Fr. Adam will guide an exploration … Read More

Compline on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 5, 2025 with No Comments

Compline on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost | October 5, 2025 Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/compline-2025-the-seventeenth-sunday-after-pentecost/ October 5, 2025 • The 17th Sunday after Pentecost ORISON: Maker of all things – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) PSALM 57 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) OFFICE HYMN: Te lucis ante terminum (Before the ending of the day) – Plainsong, Mode VIII; harm. Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594) NUNC DIMITTIS … Read More

Choral Evensong on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 5, 2025 with No Comments

Choral Evensong on the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 5, 2025 Service Leaflet | Learn more about Evensong at Saint Mark’s here. 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 17th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 5, 2025 with No Comments

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | October 5, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

Diaconal Ordination, October 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 4, 2025 with No Comments

Ordination to the Diaconate | Saturday, October 4, 10:30 a.m. The donations collected during this service will establish a discretionary fund for the newly ordained deacon. Make a gift via Venmo or saintmarks.org/give, noting “new deacon” in the memo line. 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 … Read More

St Francis Day Celebration and Blessing of the Animals

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on October 2, 2025 with 2 Comments

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4:30 P.M., on the front lawn and labyrinth On Saturday, October 4, Saint Mark’s will once again offer its beloved Saint Francis Day tradition. This Saturday afternoon outdoor offering has a truly festive community atmosphere. The cathedral extends a special invitation to folks in the neighborhood who may not usually attend Saint Mark’s. Dogs, cats, birds, bunnies, ponies, chickens, and all creatures great and small are welcome. The service at 4:30 p.m. includes prayers for healing humanity’s … Read More

Cathedral Commons – Naming Our Thresholds

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on October 2, 2025 with No Comments

Part of the Wisdom School at Saint Mark’s 2025-26 season WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2025, 6:45–8:15 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall and online via Zoom Facilitated by the Rev. Canon Emily Griffin Thresholds are places for entering and leaving—for moving from one kind of space or time to another. We make these kinds of transitions throughout our lives but often don’t know how to prepare for them, mark them, or discern the shape of our lives in light of them. … Read More

The Somatic Enneagram: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on October 2, 2025 with 2 Comments

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 and SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025 FACILITATED BY ALICIA DIVERS This two-day workshop invites participants to explore the Enneagram not only as a tool for understanding personality but as a pathway to deeper spiritual awareness through the body. Through gentle practices, reflection, and shared inquiry, we’ll consider how our habitual patterns live within us physically—and how tuning into the body can open us to healing, presence, and the sacred. No prior experience with the Enneagram or somatic work … Read More

Compline for the Eve of the Feast of St Michael & All Angels, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 28, 2025 with No Comments

Compline for the Eve of the Feast of St. Michael & All Angels | September 28, 2025 (16th Sunday after Pentecost) With Rite of Admission of New Members Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/compline-2025-eve-of-saint-michael-all-angels/ September 28, 2025 • EVE OF SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS with Rite of Admission of New Members ORISON: Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM) – Sarum … Read More

The 16th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 28, 2025 with No Comments

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost | September 28, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

2026 Vestry Member and Diocesan Convention Delegate Nominations Now Open

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 25, 2025 with No Comments

Discerning Leadership Opportunities at Saint Mark’s I consider serving on Vestry as a ministry, a privilege and a joy. It’s a commitment of time and energy, but it is also incredibly rewarding. In the process of making decisions that affect every aspect of Saint Mark’s, we form bonds, learn, grow and make lasting connections. Our shared love for this place informs all that we do. —Julia Logan (2018–21 & 2024–27) former Senior Warden and current Junior Warden Serving on Vestry … Read More

Intergenerational Hike to the Oxbow Loop Trail

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on September 25, 2025 with No Comments

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 3 P.M., at Oxbow Loop Trailhead Enjoy an easy, scenic 2-mile out-and-back on a well-surfaced, mostly level trail (<60 ft gain) with access to the Snoqualmie River—perfect for young children and anyone who prefers an unhurried pace. Dogs on leash are welcome. Rain or shine! Trail info: WTA’s Oxbow Loop page. Optional early supper in North Bend afterward at a casual restaurant. Want more challenge? Hike the nearby Pratt Balcony trail earlier in the afternoon and meet … Read More

Compline for the Feast of St Matthew the Evangelist, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 21, 2025 with No Comments

Compline for the Feast of St. Matthew the Evangelist | September 21, 2025 (15th Sunday after Pentecost) Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/compline-2025-saint-matthew/ September 21, 2025 • SAINT MATTHEW ORISON (H 244): Come, pure hearts, in joyful measure (Tune: ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN) – mel. attr. Johann Balthasar König (1691-1758), alt; harm. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) PSALM 111 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: O … Read More

The 15th Sunday after Pentecost, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 21, 2025 with No Comments

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost | September 21, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

Sunday Forum: Reclaiming the Book of Revelation in the Face of Current Events

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 15, 2025 with 6 Comments

Reclaiming the Book of Revelation in the Face of Current Events: A Critique of Empire and Christian Nationalism Run Amok A three-week series by Dean Thomason THREE SUNDAYS, SEPTEMBER 14, 21, & 28, 10:10–10:50 A.M., Bloedel Hall The Book of Revelation is perhaps the most misunderstood and misappropriated book of the entire Bible. “Rapture Theology” is a thoroughly modern phenomenon that is not actually supported by the Book of Revelation, and yet it has served as the backdrop to current events in … Read More

Compline for the Feast of the Holy Cross, 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 14, 2025 with No Comments

Compline for the Feast of the Holy Cross | September 14, 2025 (14th Sunday after Pentecost) Order of Service | Each week’s repertoire is posted here. The Order of Service & repertoire may be found at: complineunderground.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/compline-2025-holy-cross-day/ September 14, 2025 • HOLY CROSS DAY ORISON: Hope of the world, thou Christ of great compassion (Tune: DONNE SECOURS) – mel. from Trente quatre pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. Claude Goudimel (c. 1514-1572) PSALM 98 – Peter R. Hallock (1924-2014) HYMN: We sing … Read More

The 14th Sunday after Pentecost 2025

by Saint Mark's Cathedral on September 14, 2025 with No Comments

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | September 14, 2025 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, 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 … Read More

St. Francis, Honeybees, and Caring for Creation

by Josh Judd-Herzfeldt on September 11, 2025 with No Comments

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025 Rick Samyn is the Pastoral Assistant for Social Justice at St. Leo Church in Tacoma. A former Capuchin Franciscan Brother, he has been beekeeping for 24 years. In this forum, Rick will invite us to expand our view of what it means to live incarnationally. We’ll learn and talk about how to renew our bond with creation, taking St. Francis of Assisi as our guide and honeybees as our model. Watch a recording of this forum: