• In-Person Evening Prayer

    In-Person Evening Prayer
    Cathedral Nave

    EVERY WEDNESDAY (March 23–June 4, 2025), 5:30–6 P.M., in McCaw Chapel (behind the altar in the cathedral nave) A service of Evening Prayer was held in person on Wednesdays as a special offering during Lent 2025. The reaction was so positive that the participants have decided to continue it through June 4. Gather in McCaw Chapel—the space in the cathedral nave behind the altar platform, beneath the rose window. Whatever your prior experience with the Daily Office, come and pray together … Read More

  • Evening Prayer Online

    Evening Prayer Online
    Online via Zoom

    MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 6 P.M. Lay readers from Seattle-area congregations including the cathedral lead a spoken service of daily prayer following the form of the Book of Common Prayer 1979, every weekday evening at 6 p.m. The service lasts approximately 30 minutes. Learn more here. Join online using this Zoom link. Evening Prayer is always cancelled when the cathedral office is closed for holidays or other reasons, or when a special liturgy is being offered in the nave on a weekday evening.

  • Cathedral Commons: Becoming a Poverty Abolitionist

    Cathedral Commons
    Bloedel Hall +1 more

    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 6:45–8:15 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall or online via Zoom. Free, no registration required. Optional Community Dinner at 6 p.m. ($6/child; $8/adult; $25/max. family) If America’s poor founded a country, that country would have a bigger population than Australia or Venezuela. —Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America Why is there so much poverty in the richest country on earth? Can poverty be abolished? Participants in the recent Community Book Studies of Matthew Desmond’s, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American … Read More

  • Thursday Morning Chapel Eucharist

    Thursday Morning Chapel Eucharist
    Thomsen Chapel

    1st, 3rd, & 5th THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH: THE HOLY EUCHARIST, IN-PERSON IN THOMSEN CHAPEL Starting in January 2025, the Thursday Morning Chapel Eucharist will move to 7:30 a.m. On the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month, the Thursday Morning congregation now meets with Daily Morning Prayer at 7:30 a.m.. At 7:30 a.m. on the first, third, and fifth Thursdays of the month, an in-person service of Holy Eucharist offered in Thomsen Chapel. Fellowship and a community breakfast follow … Read More

  • Evening Prayer Online

    Evening Prayer Online
    Online via Zoom

    MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 6 P.M. Lay readers from Seattle-area congregations including the cathedral lead a spoken service of daily prayer following the form of the Book of Common Prayer 1979, every weekday evening at 6 p.m. The service lasts approximately 30 minutes. Learn more here. Join online using this Zoom link. Evening Prayer is always cancelled when the cathedral office is closed for holidays or other reasons, or when a special liturgy is being offered in the nave on a weekday evening.

  • The Wisdom School presents—Ellen Bass: The Intimate Web of Humanity, Healing, and Hope

    Bloedel Hall +1 more

    THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025, 7–8:30 P.M., in Bloedel Hall and online via Zoom; registration required. (note change of location)  Join bestselling writer, poet, and educator Ellen Bass for an evening of poetic exploration of themes of healing, hope, life and intimacy as part of the Wisdom School at Saint Mark’s Cathedral. With a disarmingly deft touch and piercingly intimate voice, this sage offers poetic balm and a buoying lightness amidst the vagaries of life, connecting the humble to the luminous. She will … Read More

  • Ministry of Worsted Wool

    Ministry of Worsted Wool
    Leffler Living Room

    The Ministry of Worsted Wool is a ministry of faith enrichment as your knitting and crocheting talents contribute to our parish and the wider community. Our major needlecraft emphasis is on making prayer shawls, baby blankets for the Refugee Resettlement Office, and watch caps for the Seafarers. We meet on the first Friday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a brown bag lunch while our needles and crochet hooks continue to work our yarn. All levels of skill are welcome! … Read More

  • Evening Prayer Online

    Evening Prayer Online
    Online via Zoom

    MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 6 P.M. Lay readers from Seattle-area congregations including the cathedral lead a spoken service of daily prayer following the form of the Book of Common Prayer 1979, every weekday evening at 6 p.m. The service lasts approximately 30 minutes. Learn more here. Join online using this Zoom link. Evening Prayer is always cancelled when the cathedral office is closed for holidays or other reasons, or when a special liturgy is being offered in the nave on a weekday evening.

  • CATHEDRAL DAY 2025!

    SATURDAY, MAY 3, 10:30 A.M.–2 P.M., advance registration requested Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians from across western Washington—a time for connecting across communities, experiencing your cathedral in a new light... and having a lot of fun. There’s something for everyone—no matter your age! A liturgy of Holy Eucharist with the rites of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation for candidates from parishes near and far will begin at 10:30 a.m., opening with a grand, colorful procession of parish banners. Following the service, … Read More

  • Cathedral Run Group

    Front Lawn/Labyrinth

    Hosted by 20s/30s—All are welcome FIRST SATURDAYS, 9 A.M., meet on the outdoor labyrinth On hiatus in December, January, February, and March Beginning April 2025, the first-Saturday runs will begin at 9 a.m. All ages are welcome to meet on the outdoor labyrinth in front of the cathedral for a three-mile morning run through Volunteer Park. All paces welcome. Afterward, there will be a chance for fellowship over coffee. Email Adrienne (adriennehub@gmail.com) with questions.

  • *Clear Mountain Buddhist Monastery: Meditation, Teaching & Social

    Skinner Auditorium 1501 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA, United States +1 more

    SATURDAYS, 9:30 A.M. – 12 P.M, Skinner Auditorium The meeting is occasionally moved to Bloedel Hall. Those unable to attend in-person are also welcome to tune in via Zoom or YouTube livestream. Saint Mark's Cathedral cathedral is the host this meeting of the Clear Mountain Buddhist Monastery community. Join for a morning of meditation, teaching, and spiritual conversation over coffee! Each Saturday from 9:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m., local practitioners gather together in the Saint Mark’s Cathedral Skinner Auditorium (located in the St Nicholas School … Read More

  • Cathedral Day Confirmation Liturgy

    Cathedral Nave

    SATURDAY, MAY 3, 10:30 A.M.–2 P.M., advance registration requested Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians from across western Washington—a time for connecting across communities, experiencing your cathedral in a new light… and having a lot of fun. There’s something for everyone—no matter your age! A liturgy of Holy Eucharist with the rites of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation for candidates from parishes near and far will begin at 10:30 a.m., opening with a grand, colorful procession of parish banners. Following the service, … Read More

  • Cathedral Day Lunch and Activitites

    Front Lawn/Labyrinth +1 more

    SATURDAY, MAY 3, 10:30 A.M.–2 P.M., advance registration requested Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians from across western Washington—a time for connecting across communities, experiencing your cathedral in a new light... and having a lot of fun. There’s something for everyone—no matter your age! A liturgy of Holy Eucharist with the rites of Confirmation, Reception, and Reaffirmation for candidates from parishes near and far will begin at 10:30 a.m., opening with a grand, colorful procession of parish banners. Following the service, … Read More

  • Holy Eucharist (8)

    Thomsen Chapel

    A spoken service of Holy Eucharist in Thomsen Chapel, with sermon and hymns.

  • Holy Eucharist (9)

    Cathedral Nave

    Liturgy with sermon and hymns. Music is offered by Saint Mark’s Singers or children’s choirs. Children’s Chapel is offered during the 9 a.m. service. After the Gospel is proclaimed, children pre-school through 2nd grade are invited to Thomsen Chapel for Bible stories, singing, and prayer. Parents are welcome to join their children. They return at the Peace. Location: Cathedral Nave This service is not livestreamed.

  • Ministry Fair 2025!

    Ministry Fair
    Cathedral Nave

    The Saint Mark's Ministry Fair is Moving to the Spring! For many years, the Ministry Fair—when all the many ministry groups of the cathedral celebrate their activities and accomplishments and invite new members to get involved—has been in the fall, on "Homecoming Sunday" after Labor Day, just as the new program year is starting. Last year, Homecoming Sunday also featured an All-Parish Picnic, which included a back-to-school Blessing of Backpacks and Briefcases. The picnic was a joyous community occasion, and … Read More

  • Holy Eucharist (11)

    Liturgy and music reflecting the breadth and depth of the Episcopal tradition, with Scripture, sermon, hymns, and choral anthems. Worship in person or online at saintmarks.org/livestream — also streams simultaneously at facebook.com/SaintMarksSeattle  and at youtube.com/c/SaintMarksEpiscopalCathedralSeattle/

  • Ministry Fair 2025!

    Ministry Fair
    Cathedral Nave

    The Saint Mark's Ministry Fair is Moving to the Spring! For many years, the Ministry Fair—when all the many ministry groups of the cathedral celebrate their activities and accomplishments and invite new members to get involved—has been in the fall, on "Homecoming Sunday" after Labor Day, just as the new program year is starting. Last year, Homecoming Sunday also featured an All-Parish Picnic, which included a back-to-school Blessing of Backpacks and Briefcases. The picnic was a joyous community occasion, and … Read More

  • Choral Evensong

    Choral Evensong

    FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH, OCTOBER–JUNE, 4:30 P.M., in person in the cathedral nave, and livestreamed SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2025: Saint Mark's Cathedral invites one and all to meditate on the joys of Eastertide. Come, hear the arresting humility and sincerity expressed in the final sentences of John's Gospel, the preceding verses of which will be read in the morning eucharists. Hear also a meditation on those verses by the poet, Christina Rossetti, sung by the Evensong Choir in a haunting setting … Read More

  • Contemplative Eucharist

    Contemplative Eucharist
    Thomsen Chapel

    EVERY SUNDAY, 7 P.M. (SEPTEMBER–JUNE), Thomsen Chapel  This evening Eucharist offers periods of silence for reflection, simple meditative music, and lots of candlelight. Anointing and healing blessings are offered after the service. Learn more here. NOTE: in 2025 Contemplative Eucharist is cancelled on November 30 due to the O Antiphons liturgy in the nave at that time. On December 21, the Contemplative Eucharist will be a special service offered especially for those for whom the Holiday season is a difficult or … Read More