COMMUNITY LIFE

Community member Jo Ann Bailey, a professional seamstress and teacher of sewing, submitted this report below about making fabric masks for healthcare workers. (Last week on the cathedral’s Facebook Group, there was a call from Providence Hospitals for help sewing masks, but they have subsequently engaged manufacturers, including a Mukilteo furniture factory, to produce masks in quantity and are no longer soliciting volunteers. The opportunity described below is a better option!) A shortage of protective clothing for medical professionals is … Read More

As we approach two weeks since the first public health directives upended our normal routines, with many in the interim faced with job loss, school closures, and the threat of illness coming too close, I am keenly aware that the stress of this disruption and the weight of the burgeoning health care crisis are bearing down on us, collectively and individually. It is difficult in the moment to find an unimpeded path to resolution and a return to normalcy (whatever … Read More

Note: this post form March 2020 is kept up for historical reasons, and may not still be accurate. Please check the Worship Schedule page for the most updated information.  For many years, a devoted congregation has gathered each Thursday morning for a weekday service of Holy Eucharist. Similar to daily Evening Prayer, the Thursday Morning Eucharist will likewise be replaced at this time by a service of Morning Prayer offered each week using the Zoom online teleconferencing platform. The begins … Read More

Daily Evening Prayer is offered each weekday, Monday through Friday, at 6:30 p.m. UPDATE: Beginning Tuesday, August 3, 2021, the service will be offered in person in Thomsen Chapel on Tuesdays only. Monday and Wednesday–Friday the service will remain online-only via Zoom. Join the online service using this Zoom link. For many years, Saint Mark’s has offered a spoken service of Daily Evening Prayer in Thomsen Chapel most weekdays at 6:30 p.m. (Read more about the history of this service here.)  While the cathedral … Read More

While the cathedral building is closed, don’t forget that the cathedral’s outdoor labyrinth is open and available for a meditative, spiritual walk at any time. (Be sure to practice social distancing when you visit.) If you are new to walking the labyrinth as spiritual practice, The Veriditas organization is a good place to start.