QUEER IN CHRIST (QuiC)
June 2023
PRIDE EDITION
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In this Issue
- QuiC Voices: Proud People Spotlight
- Pride Month Opportunities and Events
- QuiC Volunteer Opportunities and Events
- Holy Readings
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Proud People Spotlight: Rose Hazard
In this occasional series, the Saint Mark's Queer in Christ ministry will be highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ members of the cathedral community. In this Pride edition newsletter, we interview Rose Hazard! Read the full interview here.
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QuiC Volunteer Opportunities and Events |
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Tent City Meal
July 16th, 2023, 4:30 pm-7:30 pm
Sign up to join us in Bloedel Hall to prep and share a meal with Tent City! We are looking for 5-8 people to represent Queer in Christ that evening to help prepare and serve the meal, eat with the residents of Tent City, and then stay to help clean up. We are asked to arrive at 4:30 pm to help begin the prep. We serve dinner at 6pm and should be finished and all cleaned up by 7:30pm. The meal sharing ministry will also have one or two people there to help provide direction for us, so all we have to do is follow directions! Interested and available to help? Email Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org).
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Pride Nights at Seattle Storm and Seattle Mariners
July 13th, 2023 - Seattle Mariners
July 22nd, 2023 - Seattle Storm
Join Queer in Christ and friends for one of our Pride Night sporting events! See the Mariners play the Miami Marlin (tickets $19) at T-Mobile Park on June 13th. Or on June 22 at Climate Pledge Arena, see the Seattle Storm play Indiana Fever (tickets $45). Our night at Seattle Storm will also include a "Fan Experience" after the game ends...we will get our group photo taken with the team on the ball court!
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Organ Concert of Queer and Female Composers
June 3rd, 2023, 3 pm - St. John's, Olympia
St. John's Episcopal Church in Olympia is hosting an organ concert on Saturday, June 3 at 3pm called "Love Never Fails: A Celebration of Queer and Female Classical Composers". Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. Click here for more info.
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A Celebration of Pauli Murray: The First Queer Saint in The Episcopal Church
Sunday, July 2, 4:30 p.m. - Taizé Prayer Liturgy (cathedral nave)
Wednesday, July 12, time TBA - Pauli Murray Forum (Bloedel Hall)
We are planning two events in July honoring The Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray, the first Queer saint in The Episcopal Church (her feast day is July 1). For the Taizé Prayer liturgy on July 2, we are looking for musicians who might like to help lead the service by playing an instrument or singing. You do not need to be a professional musician to help us lead the music! Interested in learning more? Contact Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org). And you can learn more about what Taizé Prayer looks like at Saint Mark's by visiting our Taizé Prayer webpage. We will also have our next Meet & Greet after the Taizé Prayer liturgy concludes in the Cathedral nave (starting around 5:30).
On July 12, we will welcome notable author (and creator of the Brave Sis Project) Rozella Kennedy for an evening forum in Bloedel Hall to learn about who Pauli Murray was, and why her story is important to us. We will also learn about her life as an Episcopal Priest and her addition to The Episcopal Church's "Calendar of Saints" (called Lesser Feasts & Fasts). The time of this event will be communicated soon.
Fun fact: Pauli Murray will be featured on a U.S. quarter as part of the American Women Quarters Program in 2024. How cool is that?!?!
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July Meet and Greets
The next Queer in Christ Meet and Greet will be on July 2 at 5:30 in the Cathedral Nave. It will occur after the Queer in Christ sponsored Pauli Murray Taizé Prayer liturgy. We hope that we might have members of the broader Capitol Hill community join us for this special event. We plan on advertising the Pauli Murray Taizé liturgy at the Pride Fest in Capitol Hill. If you might be able to bring in an hors d'oeuvres or beverage for this event, sign up here.
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Pride Karaoke
Join us for Pride Karaoke in Leffler Living Room on Friday, June 9 at 7pm! Sing solo, or a duet, or with a group! To participate, sign up for a slot here. Be sure to include a link to a YouTube karaoke video, which we will use for your performance. We are also looking for people to bring desserts (bite sized desserts like cookies and brownies are ideal) for people to enjoy during the event.
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Leadership Meetings
We will begin having monthly Leadership Meetings on the first Friday evening of the month starting in July (July 7)! These meetings will usually occur in person in Leffler Living Room, though they may sometimes occur on Zoom. Anyone who is interested in assisting with event planning and discerning where the time and energy of our ministry is spent is invited to join us! Contact Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org) for details.
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Book Club
Several friends of QuiC have said it would be great if we could have a book club. To make this happen, it would be good to have a few people who might like to take the lead on getting this started!
If you might have interest and bandwidth for this, please reach out to Michael Seewer (mseewer@saintmarks.org) to discuss scheduling and planning for this. Thank you!
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Coming Out Stories
Would you like to help plan some QuiC "Coming Out Stories" events starting in September? Several people have said this would be a welcomed event to host. We would gather one evening to hear a person's coming out story, and have time for fellowship and friendship as well. We are looking for two or three people to help lead and plan how and when we might plan these.
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ARTICLES FROM THE BROADER CHURCH
"Higher Love" transcends threats of violence against Pasadena’s All Saints Church
Honor LGBTQ+ forced migrants in June through Episcopal Migration Ministries’ Rainbow Initiative
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DIOCESE OF OLYMPIA: PRIDE NEWSLETTER |
If you'd like to learn more about diocesan pride events happening around Seattle and beyond in Western Washington, visit ecww.org/pride.
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Saint Mark’s Cathedral acknowledges that we gather on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish People, who are still here, and we honor with gratitude the land itself and the life of all the Coast Salish tribes. [Learn more]
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