Cathedral News

6.22.17
      
What's happening here at your Episcopal Cathedral?
 
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Coming This Week:

Thursday, June 22
6:00 pm   
The Crossing Worship followed by Fellowship

Friday, June 23
12:30 pm  
Muslim Friday Prayers 

Sunday, June 25
10:00 am  
Holy Eucharist, Canon Cristina Rathbone, preacher
12:30 pm  
Holy Eucharist in Chinese  
3:00 pm 
The Redeemed Christian Church of God Worship Service 
 
Monday, June 26
9:00 am - 3:00 pm  
MANNA Library Hours
10:00 - 11:30 am 
MANNA Leadership Team Meeting
11:30 am - 12:30 pm 
Monday Lunch
1:00 pm  
Holy Eucharist (Sproat Hall)
2:00 pm 
Alcoholics Anonymous (Lawrence Room) 

Tuesday, June 27
9:00 am - 3:00 pm  
MANNA Library Hours
9:30 am  
MANNA Writers' Group (Sproat Hall)
11:00 am  
Christian Meditation 

Wednesday, June 28
10:00 am    Holy Eucharist
12:00 pm Santa Missa en Espanol (Chapel)


In the Spotlight  
  



Summer Hours Begin this Week
Beginning June 23 the Cathedral and Diocesan Offices will be closed on Fridays (the Muslim Friday Prayers will take place as usual in the church), through Labor Day. 

Celebration for Loren Gary this Sunday
Loren Gary, long-time member of St. John the Evangelist Bowdoin St. and the Cathedral community, is leaving Boston for a new job in Alabama. Come to the 10:00 service and Coffee Hour this Sunday to help us bid him farewell and Godspeed.

Social Justice Committee meets this Sunday
The Social Justice Committee will meet this Sunday after Coffee Hour, location to be determined.

Visitor Open Hours this Summer
The church will be open for visitors this summer the following hours:
Sunday - 8 am-5 pm
Monday - 10 am-5 pm
Tuesday - 10 am-5 pm
Wednesday - 10 am-5 pm
Thursday - 10 am-8 pm
Friday - 11 am-2 pm
Saturday - 10 am-4 pm

Spanish Service Begins at the Cathedral June 28
SANTA MISA EN ESPAÑOL
We're pleased to announce that beginning on Wednesday, June 28, there will be Holy Eucharist in Spanish in the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at 12:00 noon every Wednesday. The Rev. Edgar Gutierrez-Duarte and Deacon Ema Rosero-Nordalm will preside. 

Please keep your pledge payments up to date
We have received pledges from 21 households/individuals totaling almost 2,600 hours of service to our community, almost  6 ,000  hours of prayer, and over $50,000. Please stay up to date with your pledges payments so that we can stay on target with our budgeting. If you need a pledge card you can contact the Cathedral office or pick one up on Sunday in church.

The Pilgrim

Breaking the Block
words by Tony, title by James
 
The mind is a crazy thing.  As a writer and a poet, I know this all too well. Sometimes it makes writing very challenging - at other times it makes it very easy.

I guess as a writer it's a curse, and at times it can be a blessing. There are times when I can't write at all - of course I'm referring to writer's block.

At this moment writer's block has got its grips on me, and the fact that I have streaks of just plain laziness doesn't help. So I'm writing about writer's block in the hopes that it will end my current episode of writer's block,' cause it's very depressing to be a writer and not be able to write.

The Pilgrim Journal is written by our homeless friends of the Black Seed Writers Group. Sign up for an annual print subscription for $25 by designating your gift to the Monday Lunch Program on our giving page (make sure you specify that your gift is for a Pilgrim Subscription), or send a check to the Cathedral Offices with "Pilgrim Subscription" in the memo line.
 
Check out our web site at www.thepilgrim.org.

Congregation Corner
Prayers Requested
 
Please keep in your prayers especially these members of our congregation:
  • Jennifer Cheong How
  • Margaret Ellen Comer
  • Andrew Del Pilar
  • Gail Farmer
  • Valrie Harris
  • The Rev. Brian S. Kelley
  • William McConaga
  • Margarita Sanchez-Nutting
  • Vinnie Panico
  • The Rev. Kathryn Piccard
  • Julie Uhler
  • Martin
This Sunday
June 25, 2017

See In the Spotlight for details about this Sunday.

Please speak to Deacon Cynthia Pape if you are interested in serving at the altar during our services, or serving with the Altar Guild to assist with preparation and cleaning up after services. Churches rely on their members to help make our services possible, so please consider committing to help out.
Rosters and Readers 
Lessons for June 25, 2017

For the lessons for the Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7),  click  here.
   
Celebrant
The Rev. Nancy E. Gossling
Preacher & Presider Canon Cristina Rathbone
Deacon The Rev. Cynthia D. Pape
Verger
Loren Gary
Sub-deacon
Richie Lizine
Chalice Ministers
Richie Lizine, James Van Looy
Crucifer
Brenda Ciesla
Acolytes Claire Cocchi, James Dukes
Lectors, 1st Lesson
Kevin Walker
             2nd Lesson  Jim Butler
Intercessor
EstherDavid Steffens
Healing Minister
Jan Rowe
Organist/Choir Director
David Eaton
Choir Cathedral Schola
Greeters
Jennifer Cheong How, Cecilia Ibeabuchi, Stanley Ibeabuchi
Coffee Hour Host
Loren Gary & Council

Coming Up and Reminders
 
The 8:00 Sunday Eucharist is on hiatus until further notice.

Education for Ministry (EfM) is a lay education program sponsored by the School of Theology in Sewanee that provides the opportunity for scriptural and theological exploration and discernment of how God is at work in the world and in us, in small groups with a trained mentor. Participants commit for 0ne year at a time for a four-year program. Sessions are on Wednesdays, 6:15 to 8:45 pm, September through May, at Trinity Church in Copley Square. The cost is $350 with some scholarship available. Contact EfMTrinityBoston@gmail.com  or call Susan Butler, 617-232-4135. There will be an Open Session in May for those considering the program for 2017 - 18.
 
Two of the Cathedral's and St. John's long-time and faithful friends, Vinnie Panico and The Rev. Kathryn Piccard , are in nursing care and would like visits or to hear from us via cards and notes! Vinnie's at Milton House Center, 1200 Brush Hill Rd., Milton, MA 02186-2337. Kathryn's address is 417 South Ave., Holmes, PA, 19043.

The Crossing, our church community for young adults and others who are searching for a less structured approach to worship, offers Holy Eucharist every  Thursday at 6:00 p.m. in the cathedral sanctuary, followed by fellowship in our church building or at a nearby restaurant.  For more information about worship and The Crossing's many other offerings, go to  thecrossingboston.org or email  info@thecrossingboston.org.

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