SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2020
THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
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The Holy Eucharist will be livestreamed from the Cathedral Nave at 11 a.m. Sunday morning.
Photo above by Michael Perera.
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Download the leaflet in advance
here
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Presider: The Rev. Canon Nancy Ross
Preacher: The Very Rev. Steven L. Thomason
Scripture:
Genesis 25:19-34; Romans 8:1-11; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Hymns:
O day of radiant gladness (#48);
Almighty God, your word is cast (#588, but sung to the tune of #529,
McKee)
Choir:
African American Spiritual, arr. Robert Lau,
There is a balm in Gilead
Organ: Georg Böhm,
Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend [tune of Hymn #3 “Now that the daylight fills the sky”]; Georg Böhm,
Präludium in D Minor
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Pre-liturgy Check-in and Post-liturgy Virtual Coffee Hour via Zoom
This week, why not
pop into the Virtual Coffee Hour Zoom meeting
before the service, just to check in and say hello?
The room will be open starting at 10:30 a.m.
Then use the same link to come together and share some time together immediately after the service. Email
Peter McClung
with any questions, or to receive the link.
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An Introduction to Sunday's Hymns
Here is this week's
introduction to Sunday's hymns
, presented by Jon Stuntebeck. It was first broadcast live over Facebook on Thursday
.
Click
here
to watch the video on Facebook.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Friday 7/10, 3 p.m.
Friday afternoon tea
Sunday 7/12, 11 a.m.
The Holy Eucharist (livestream)
Sunday 7/12, 10:30 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Pre-Liturgy Check-In &
Virtual Coffee Hour
Sunday 7/12, 9:30 p.m.
Compline (broadcast)
Monday, 7/13, 6:30 p.m.
Creation Care Ministry Meeting
Wednesday, 7/15, 7 p.m.
Taking Up Our Responsibility
for Racial Justice:
Study sessions begin
Sundays, 7/19 & 26, 9:30 p.m.
Compline, offered by a quartet of women's voices
Wednesday, 7/22, 7 p.m.
#VoteFaithfully Meeting
Tuesday, 7/28, 5 p.m.
Taking White Supremacy to Court: The Charlottesville Case
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WEEKDAY SERVICES
Morning Prayer,
THURSDAYS, 7 A.M.
via Zoom.
A service of morning prayer, followed immediately by some time to talk and be together. All are welcome. Email
selwood@uw.edu
for the link.
Evening Prayer, EVERY WEEKNIGHT, 6:30 P.M.
via Zoom.
A service of daily evening prayer to close the day.
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Compline
Compline
will be broadcast at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, now with a choir of four singers. Listen live on KING-FM 98.1 and online at
king.org
, and please subscribe to the Compline podcast:
complinepodcast.org
Highlights:
Louis Bourgeois/Claude Goudimel,
The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
(tune: Les Comm); Thomas Tallis,
Hear the voice and prayer
NOTE: The Women's Compline Choir returns to chant the office July 19 & 26, 2020
.
See below for more details!
All repertoire and liturgy information subject to change.
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HAPPENINGS OF NOTE THIS WEEK
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Tent City 3 Has Arrived At Saint Mark's
On Tuesday, July 7, Tent City 3 began moving in to the lower parking lot of the cathedral. The encampment is somewhat smaller now than in previous years—while the city allows up to 100 people,
Tent City 3 currently houses about 40.
The Cathedral is proving water and electricity, although no one from Tent City is currently allowed to enter the cathedral building. Living in a tent is not the secure, permanent housing that everyone deserves. However, for some of those for whom such housing is inaccessible, a Tent City can be a better situation that more traditional homeless shelters. Unlike many shelters, it allows mixed-gender couples to live together. In addition, the residents are not bound to restrictive curfews, which removes a significant barrier to employment. (Most residents of Tent City are employed full- or part-time.)
Learn more about Tent City 3, including their requests for donations and information about opportunities to provide meals,
here
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Navigating a Changing Church
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 10:00 A.M.
Join with other Episcopal BIPOC folk (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) from around Western Washington to
learn about how to care for ourselves while we model Jesus’s ministry of transformational change.
We will use developmental approaches to understanding our work as BIPOC ministers in a predominately white Episcopal Church.
Note
:
In order to maintain a safe space for participants, this conversation will
only be open to BIPOC individuals
within the Diocese of Olympia.
Advance registration is required through
this link.
Please answer all registration questions, including racial identification and congregation. If we do not have a record of your membership on file, may we contact your priest or congregational leader to confirm that you are a member? This step will help prevent trolling and secure the safety of our conversation. If you need an interpreter when filling out this the registration form, please contact the
Rev. Canon Arienne Davison
at
adavison@ecww.org
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Quarantine Quire Camp
The Senior Choristers will begin their virtual "Quarantine Quire Camp" the week of July 13, focusing on musicianship and sight-singing skills, daily worship together, goofy daily dress up themes, and being together while apart this summer.
The campers will be preparing to participate in the next Saint Mark's virtual choir offering
to be debuted in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to hear more about this virtual adventure!
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Creation Care Ministry
NEXT MINISTRY MEETING:
MONDAY, JULY 13, 6:30 P.M.,
via Zoom
The Creation Care Ministry meets monthly, and is currently focusing on 4 areas: spiritual exercises to connect our faith with our care of the earth, training on a measurement tool to help Saint Mark’s households measure their carbon footprint, researching carbon offset programs to share with the congregation, and examining personal habits around food and energy usage. Email
marjorie@ringness.org
for the Zoom link to join our next meeting and be part of the ongoing work and conversation.
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Did you know St. Mark’s has two active honeybee hives on the roof of Bloedel Hall?
Installed on May 10, they include thousands of residents. Recently, our apiarist Rob Reid suspected one of our hives had lost its queen because, when inspecting the frames, he was unable to find eggs. But wild bees are able to create a new queen with remaining larvae. To assist our bees, Rob and Jaime Rubio moved eggs from the healthy hive to the queenless one. Now the bees can create queen cells and feed them “royal jelly.” If all goes well, in less than a month, the new queen will mate in mid air with drone bees and start laying fertile eggs. There’s lots of miraculous science involved. You can see where the expression “the birds and the bees” comes from. Your prayers for the health of our hives are welcome.
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Taking Up Our Responsibility for Racial Justice
: Opening Plenary Video Now Available
Read Dean Thomason's recent message to the cathedral about the cathedral's call to do the hard work of confronting racial injustice
here
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SERIES
: FOUR WEDNESDAYS, JULY 15 & 29, and August 12 & 26, 7 P.M.
Thanks to the over 100 people who participated in last Wednesday’s live Opening Plenary presentation for the cathedral series on racial justice. For those who did not participate live,
a video of the event is now available.
(Note that the two breakout sessions, during which participants had discussions among themselves in small groups, have been edited out of the video.) The video may be seen on the cathedral website,
here
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Registration for the four-session study and discussion series is still open.
Please watch the Plenary video before registering, and note that, by registering, you commit to attending all four sessions, and completing the required reading/viewing in advance of each meeting. On the same page on the cathedral website, you may now download the syllabus for the four sessions, including all the required readings and videos. For questions or more information contact
jkdaugherty@saintmarks.org
,
nross@saintmarks.org
, or
cchapman@saintmarks.org
.
To commit to attending the full series,
click here
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Flentrop Organ Workshop: Live Open House Online
The
Flentrop Orgelbouw
was founded in Zaandam in the Netherlands in 1903, created the organ for Saint Mark’s in 1965, and is still producing world-class instruments in 2020. On Saturday, July 18, the firm is presenting a virtual open house via YouTube livestream, during which they will present a tour of their workshop, present videos and sound recordings illustrating their work, answer live questions from viewers,
and reveal their current project, a large instrument for the Royal Birmingham (U.K.) Conservatoire. Unfortunately, due to the time difference, the live event will begin at 5 a.m., Seattle time. The link for the event is
here
— early risers can watch the event live using that link, and everyone else will be able to watch
after the live broadcast concludes, using that same link.
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The Women's Compline Choir Returns
TWO SUNDAYS, JULY 19 & 26, 9:30 P.M.,
broadcast live on KING-FM, and
livestreamed
After the historic and moving all-women Compline services offered last summer, plans were made for a repeat offering in the summer of 2020. The 21 women who participated last year cannot gather now, but a choir consisting only of
Rebekah Gilmore and three other singers will offer Women's Compline once again on two Sundays in July.
These services will be livestreamed on the cathedral website and on Facebook Live. Like last year, a new work has been commissioned and will receive its world premiere — Kevin Siegfried, a composer with Seattle roots and longstanding connections with the Compline Choir, has composed “Sisters, we have met to worship,” based on the early American Hymn tune
Holy Manna.
If you wish, you may RSVP on the
Facebook event page.
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WEDNESDAY PARISH FORUM
#VoteFaithfully—
Saint Mark’s Heeding the Call to Get Out the Vote
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 7 P.M.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
tells us
: “
It is a Christian obligation to vote, and more than that, it is the church’s responsibility to help get souls to the polls.
”
Come hear about the Vote Faithfully movement in the Church – working together to empower every voice to get freely to the polls.
We’re looking at ways to encourage voter registration and to speak out against voter suppression
. We will hear from community members of their personal voting experience, share stories, share a faith perspective on voting your own conscience, and explore ways we can make a difference in valuing every voice through every vote. To register,
click here
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UPDATED WITH REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS!
Taking White Supremacy to Court: The Charlottesville Case
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 5 P.M.,
presented by Temple De Hirsch-Sinai, co-sponsored by Saint Mark's Cathedral and Faith Action Network
Integrity First for America
(IFA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to holding those accountable who threaten longstanding principles of our democracy—including our country's commitment to civil rights and equal justice. The IFA is backing
Sines v. Kessler
, the landmark federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of Charlottesville community members against the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups responsible for the August 2017 violence. Trial is scheduled for October 2020.
This case has the potential to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bankrupt and dismantle the organizations at the heart of the far-right extremist movement of today.
(Read a
New York Times
article about the complexities of the case
here
.) On Tuesday July 28 Temple De Hirsch Sinai will present an online forum with representatives from IFA, discussing the history and future plans for the lawsuit, and the broader context of hate groups in America.
Learn more about this event here
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SAVE THE DATE
Spirited Women's Summer Gathering
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 6–7:30 p.m.,
via Zoom
The Spirited Women Planning group has decided it is best not to meet in person, but to provide guidance for a "meditative walk" alone or in pairs, in a park, on a trail, in one's own neighborhood, or in or around your home... and then gather together virtually to share that experience. We are also asking that you take a photo on your walk and send it along with a personal reflection of your experience to Mary Segall,
mesegall@icloud.com
. Canon Cristi Chapman, who is now recovering successfully from appendix surgery, will provide guidance to us on spiritual walking-so stay tuned. Thank you.
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CATHEDRAL CONVERSATIONS
New Podcast Episode—
Dick & Jane Carter: What Brings Us Together
Cathedral Conversations
is a podcast by, for, and about the community of Saint Mark's Cathedral. In the newest two-part episode, recorded November 6, 2019, longtime members of Saint Mark’s Dick and Jane Carter recount the story of how they came to the cathedral, the many ministries they’ve served in, and how their connection to a church in Russia gifted us our beautiful icons. Listen at
saintmarks.org/podcast
or download and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Casa Latina House Cleaning and Outdoor Work – Ready for Work!
We can now support our friends at
Casa Latina
, who have been hit extremely hard by the pandemic shut-down! The Day Workers Center has opened, following strict safety guidelines, and is taking calls Monday-Friday 7:00 – 10:30 a.m. and Saturday from 7:30 – 11:30 a.m. Employers must make reservations 24 hours ahead of time. Place your work order today for house cleaning, landscape, or outdoor maintenance services. The Saint Mark’s community is so grateful for our relationship with Casa Latina and their leadership in the fight for immigrants’ rights
.
If you have jobs to be done, please do support our neighbors who need the work!
Visit the
website
for further details or
call 206-956-0779 x3
to hire a Casa Latina worker.
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The Wisdom of Children:
An Audio Project from Saint Mark’s
About a month ago, Dean Steve mentioned how much adults are missing the voices and laughter of children in their lives during quarantine. He had an idea about recording the voices of children from the Saint Mark's community, so that we can all hear from them, in their own words, about what their lives are like now. Follow the link below to hear a beautifully edited 18-minute audio piece featuring some of the kids of the Saint Mark's community, guaranteed to lift your spirits and nourish the soul. For convenience, it is also available as a special episode of the
Saint Mark's Prayer Podcast for Children & Families.
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CHILDREN, YOUTH, & FAMILIES
Summer Offerings
Sunday morning Godly Play has concluded for the summer, but don't miss these other offerings from the Children and Families Ministry!
- THE SAINT MARK'S PRAYER PODCAST FOR CHILDREN: In each 6–8-minute episode, you'll hear a verse of scripture, sing a song with Miss Gilmore, and be invited to pray together. Search for "Prayer Podcast for Children" wherever you get your podcasts, or check out all the episodes here!
- SAINT MARK'S YOUTH GROUP BIBLE STUDY & HANGOUT meets weekly. Contact Nicole for details of how to participate at nsilvernale@saintmarks.org
- OTHER UPCOMING YOUTH OFFERINGS include the Diocese of Olympia's High School Summer Camp, this year offered online July 24–26, the weekly diocesan youth-led worship service "Worship Wednesdays," exciting (virtual) summer offerings from Kids4Peace, and plans for the fall. Read all about it on the Youth page of the cathedral website.
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Education for Ministry (EfM) registration for 2020/21
Do you want to go deeper into your faith in an intense, ongoing way? Do you want to form lasting connections with others who also seek that connection? Consider registering for EfM. EfM is a four-year program focused on the study scripture, church history, and modern theology. Classes connect the material with church tradition, personal experiences, individual beliefs and current events. The next term begins the week of
September 1, 2020
. Three different classes meet weekly September to June at Saint Mark’s: Sundays, 6:00–8:30 p.m.; Mondays, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; or Mondays, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Each class is limited to 12 people; enrollment is open now and will end in early August or when classes are full. Tuition, including books, is $375. Please inquire by contacting clergy or class mentors:
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Saint Mark's Livestream Now Available on Facebook Live
Since the cathedral switched to
Vimeo
as its streaming platform, new possibilities for our livestream have become available. Beginning this weekend, Saint Mark’s will now be presenting the
Sunday morning liturgy livestream simultaneously on Facebook in addition to on the website
as usual. We successfully streamed last Tuesday’s diocesan ordination liturgy to Facebook, and—even though it was not publicized in advance—over 60 people from around the country were able to experience and participate in the liturgy who may not otherwise have joined. If you follow the cathedral on Facebook, you will get a notification automatically when the livestream begins, or simply visit
https://www.facebook.com/SaintMarksSeattle
around 10:45 a.m.
If you try watching on Sunday morning in this new way, let Greg Bloch know what it was like and how it worked for you at
gbloch@saintmarks.org.
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Resources to Support Protesters and Racial Equity in Western Washington
Cathedral clergy and staff have compiled a
list of resources
for learning about and confronting racism and white supremacy in ourselves, our community, and our nation.
The diocese of Olympia has compiled an additional list here
. We hope these resources provide support for the difficult work that we are being called to do to dismantle unjust systems, institutions, and ideologies and create a society in which the dignity of every human being is respected.
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Friday Afternoon Tea
EVERY FRIDAY at 3 P.M.,
via Zoom.
Remember when we used to get together in coffee shops? We can still do that... online! Michael Perera will host afternoon tea once a week; drop in and chat about whatever’s on your mind. Bring your favorite hot beverage and let’s continue hanging out and making the isolation easier. Email Michael Perera with questions or to get the link to join:
perera.michael@gmail.com
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Do you know someone who might need to be contacted?
Is there anyone you know who might benefit from a quick phone call, or a note in the mail, from clergy or a member of the community? Email Dean Steve Thomason at
sthomason@saintmarks.org
or Erik Donner at
edonner@saintmarks.org
, or call either one—or any of the clergy—at 206.323.0300.
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