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Conversations About Gratitude
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This year’s annual Stewardship campaign will occur in October as usual, but as a “prelude” to Stewardship season the members of the Stewardship Committee, led by Junior Warden for Stewardship Chris Rigos, invite all to participate in a five-week conversation about gratitude. Each week, a broad question to stimulate mindfulness of and reflection on gratitude will be posted. In his letter to the Thessalonians, Paul writes: “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus … Read More

Blessing of Backpacks, Community Picnic, and Dessert Dash
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 6–7:30 P.M. All are welcome to a back-to-school gathering on Friday evening, September 3—to reconnect in person, have some fun together, and celebrate the amazing kids of our community. Bring a blanket and your own picnic dinner. The cathedral will provide fresh fruit, chips, and water/lemonade for everyone along with a variety of fun activities. There will also be a Lunchbox Dessert Dash (featuring cookies, cupcakes, brownies, and bars) to benefit the Seattle Service Corps and the … Read More

Easing COVID-19 Requirements at Saint Mark’s—August 17, 2022
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A MESSAGE FROM DEAN THOMASON AUGUST 17, 2022 Dear friends, As you may have seen in the news in recent days, the CDC has promulgated new guidelines related to COVID precautions and interventions. More importantly for us locally, King County public health officials have observed a dramatic decrease in infection rates and have reduced the risk level to LOW. That change, along with the trending infection rate of less than 200 new cases daily per 100,000 population, means that Saint … Read More

Sharing Meals with Tent City 3
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SUNDAY EVENINGS, JUNE 19 through SEPTEMBER 4, 2:30–6:30 P.M., Bloedel Hall. Volunteer Appreciation Dinner: Sunday, September 11. Tent City 3 arrives in the cathedral parking lot June 4, and the cathedral’s TC3 meals team has been coordinating the details of their stay. The residents have decided that they would like to share Sunday dinners with us indoors in Bloedel Hall! We are thrilled to have the opportunity to sit down and share dinner with them. At this time all the … Read More

Climate Conversations
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SECOND THURSDAYS, 6:30–7:30 P.M., online via Zoom Looking for practical ways to reduce your impact on the environment? Saint Mark’s Creation Care Ministry is hosting Climate Conversations about everyday things in our lives. These monthly conversations will be held on environmentally-friendly Zoom on the second Thursday evening of each month. Register to participate using this link (same Zoom link each month). Scroll down on this page to find materials, slides, and videos of past conversations in this series.  UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS APRIL … Read More

20s/30s Mariners Game Outing
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 6:40 P.M. Join a group for Friday night baseball as the Seattle Mariners play the Atlanta Braves. More details to come. Ticket price: $10. For more information, or to reserve your ticket, email Emily: emcmeeks@gmail.com UPDATE: The group had a fantastic time, even though the Mariners lost. See a photo below! 

20s/30s Heart of the Table
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 5–8 P.M. Gather around the table at Nurturing Roots for an evening of conversation, food and liturgy with other young adults. Located in Beacon Hill, Nurturing Roots is an urban farm committed to community, self-sufficiency, food empowerment, social justice and education. Tickets are $10 with 100% of sales going to benefit Nurturing Root programming. Register here (https://heartofthetable.eventbrite.com/). For questions or more information, email Emily: emcmeeks@gmail.com

Saint Mark’s Community Meal Delivery
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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
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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
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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
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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

Intersectionality and Environmentalism: A Reflection by The Rev. Edie Weller
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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
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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, 2022
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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
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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

Responding to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision
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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

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