Livestream service of Holy Eucharist

Download the leaflet in advance here.

Visit saintmarks.org/livestream to watch live. (The service will also be streamed on Saint Mark's Facebook page.)

Presider: The Rev. Canon Cristi Chapman

Preacher: The Rev. Canon Jennifer King Daugherty

Scripture: Exodus 33:12-23; Matthew 22:15-22

Hymns: Jesus shall reign [Hymn #544]; O God of earth and altar [Hymn #591]

Organ: Dieterich Buxtehude & J. S. Bach, Two settings of Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BuxWV 184 & BWV 720; Eugène Gigout, Toccata, from 10 Pièces pour orgue (1889)

Offertory music: Peace unto Zion, Shaker Song arranged by Kevin Siegfried

Here is this week's introduction to Sunday's hymns It was first broadcast live over Facebook on Thursday. Click here to watch the video on Facebook.

Join us next Thursday at 4 p.m. on the cathedral's public Facebook page to experience the next hymn chat live!

Every week a Virtual Coffee Hour over Zoom immediately follows the Sunday morning service — email Peter McClung to receive the link. 

Compline will be broadcast at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, now with a choir of three or four singers. Listen live on KING-FM 98.1 and online at king.org, and please subscribe to the Compline podcast: complinepodcast.org

Highlights: M. Searle Wright, Dear Lord and Father of mankind; William Byrd, Visita quaesumus, Domine

Regathering the Beloved Community: Virtual Diocesan BIPOC Retreat

13th: Watch Party and Discussion

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. Email mseewer@saintmarks.org for link.

Watch your email for future weekly stewardship messages! Stewardship videos will be posted here as they are released.

THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2020, 5:30 P.M. in the Community Facebook Group (highlights will be posted later in the week on the Cathedral website, here.)

The Stewardship Ministry invites all to join in a weekly reflection on the year and how Saint Mark’s has knit all of us together into a community. The second of these opportunities was posted on the Community Life during the Closure Facebook page on Tuesday evening. Those who do not use Facebook can read highlights and contribute to the ongoing conversation here.

Look out for additional offerings from the Stewardship ministry throughout the month, and click here to make your 2021 pledge.

Nominations for candidates for Vestry and for Delegates to Diocesan Convention will be open from Sunday, October 18 through Sunday, November 22. If you would like to nominate someone or would like more information about either of those important roles, please send an email to nominations@saintmarks.org. Thank you!  

or MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 8 P.M., via Zoom

Learn 3-4 data-driven discoveries and tips for parenting during the pandemic, and converse with fellow parents about your experiences with the challenges, opportunities, and stressors of parenting in this season. Each session will be limited to a conversational-size. To RSVP for one of these sessions and receive the zoom link, please contact Kelly.

Forward Movement and The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations are calling Episcopalians and all others to join in A Season of Prayer: For an Election. This prayer novena—nine days of devotional prayers—calls upon God for discernment in voting and for the well-being of our nation. Learn more and sign up for email updates here.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2020, 1:00 P.M., via Zoom

A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of Faith is Timothy Egan's story of his personal journey to discover what he, a lapsed Catholic, really believed. It's a personal search for the faith that may not have comforted his devout mother in her final days and failed some members of his family. It's also a learned journey through church history, and it's a delightful travelogue. (Rick Steves, watch out!)

Egan is an award-winning NYT's columnist, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and a Seattleite. He writes beautifully, lyrically, and movingly in this story of his spiritual quest. To join the Zoom discussion, email your interest to pmcelheran@comcast.net or deborahbrown2559@me.com.

The Seattle Seafarers' Center WILL be delivering ditty bags to the seafarers who come into the Port of Seattle this year! They are accepting donations of toiletries (Deodorant, Shaving Cream, Toothpaste, Shampoo/Body wash combo, disposable razor, and a toothbrush sealed in a single pack), and handmade ditty bags (instructions available here). Donations for the purchase of toiletries can be made online (please specify "Ditty Bags") or mailed to: Seattle Seafarers Center, 3568 W. Marginal Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106. For more information and to schedule a donation drop-off, contact the volunteers of the Seattle Seafarers' Center at 206.935.3439 or email: office@mts-seattle.org.

In addition, you can also join Saint Mark’s Ministry of Worsted Wool in making watch caps for the Mission to Seafarers. Contact Barbara Erickson or visit this page for more information and a pattern—even if you’ve never knitted a cap before!

In a pastoral message emailed earlier this week, Dean Thomason offered a timely reflection on civic responsibilities from a religious and spiritual perspective. You may read the complete message here.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020, 5:30 P.M. watch party via Zoom; 7:15-8:15 P.M discussion via Zoom.

Gather together online to watch and then discuss the profound documentary “13th,” filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s exploration of the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the mass incarceration of African Americans. Scholars, activists, and politicians analyze the history of criminalization of African Americans and the intersection of race, justice, and the prison-industrial complex. If you’ve already watched the documentary, join us later at 7:15 – 8:15 on Zoom for a discussion of what this means for us, and what our responsibility is to work to change this system. Registration for both movie and discussion are the same, and are required here. Want to know more? Great article in The Atlantic here, and Ava DuVernay discusses the film with Oprah here.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2020, 6:30 P.M., watch live here or on the Saint Mark's livestream page

Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times—The new Book by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's New Book

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020, 7-8 P.M., via Zoom

Let’s gather after the election and talk about hope for the future in a real, Jesus-centered way! As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. In his new book, he uses the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey to show us how America came this far and how to go a whole lot further. The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing this nation today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. Let’s get some love going and talk about the PB’s charge and challenge together! If you’d like to hear more about the book, read here. Registration required here.

In the U.S., 5 basic household activities make up 40% of greenhouse gas emissions – electricity, home heating, transportation, food, and waste. And now there are affordable and accessible options for all of these activities. Go to www.sustainislandhome.org, sign up your household on the carbon tracker, and see some of the ways you can reduce your carbon footprint and make a difference in climate change. Join St. Mark’s clergy, staff, vestry, and many parishioners by following these easy instructions to take the first step of measuring your household carbon footprint. Then reduce where you can. Information will be coming soon about suggested ways to offset your remaining footprint. Working together we can make a difference, caring for the Earth, our island home.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020, 1:30 P.M-4:30 P.M., via Zoom.

Paths to Understanding, a local organization promoting inter-religious dialogue, presents this conversation with members of the African American and Indigenous communities, including The Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Parish, Everett. Racism and prejudice harm people of many groups and divide us from one another. Often, we don’t fully appreciate the challenges that various groups are facing and so fail to work together for our common good.

Hear Me! Stand With Me! is an opportunity to hear the struggles of many groups through story, poetry, music and art, and learn what it means to stand with that group to create a better life for all of us. We are all in this together and our future are inseparably bound up with one another. Register here.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2020, 7:30 P.M., via livestream

The 2020-21 Season of the Saint Mark's Music Series begins! For this unique year, the Music Series will offer free, virtual concerts featuring local talent - including cathedral staff, parishioners, and choir members. Although we are staying close to home, we embrace this unique opportunity to publicize farther afield and to welcome larger audiences to our beautiful Nave through these livestreamed concerts. You can view the whole season online, and can RSVP to the concerts on Facebook. We hope that you will invite friends and family to attend these livestreams and to enjoy the exquisite music from the holy box of Saint Mark's Cathedral. 

Join Episcopalians from across western Washington for the 110th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, gathering virtually for workshops and worship, and assembling remotely to do the work of the diocese. Follow this link for a preliminary schedule and registration information.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020, 2:30 P.M., via Zoom

God willing and the people consenting, Bishop Rickel will ordain two people to the vocational diaconate in a solemn liturgy on Saturday afternoon, October 24. Such ordinations would normally occur during the annual diocesan convention, but this year the cathedral is hosting the service, which will double as the concluding liturgy of the virtual convention, October 23–24.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2020, 9:30 A.M., via Zoom

God comes to us in many ways. Some of the most profound encounters though happen during simple, everyday life: cooking a meal, putting away dishes, folding laundry, or reading a bedtime story. Those ordinary encounters can be anything but ordinary. God is always finding a way to transform ordinary practices in unexpected ways.

On Saturday, November 7, the Spirited Women of Saint Mark’s will gather virtually for a mini-retreat to talk about ways God encounters us through ordinary life. Pre-gathering coffee begins at 9:30 followed by Morning Prayer and then reflection and renewal. We will end by 11:30 am. 

To pre-register, please RSVP to Mary Segall or The Rev. Canon Cristi Chapman by Sunday, October 25. Participants will receive a retreat packet in the mail in advance. After you register, share a short reflection, photo, or video how you have encountered the Holy in ordinary life. More information is available here.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2020, 9:30-11:30 A.M., via Zoom, registration required.

Renowned interspiritual teacher Mirabai Starr returns to Saint Mark’s on December 5 to offer a virtual workshop on loss, grief, and hope titled Luminous Night: A Spirituality of Loss, Grief, and Hope. She will share teachings from the mystics of various traditions that illumine the connection between loss, spiritual longing, and reframing the future. The teachings of the sixteenth-century Spanish saints Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross show us how we may approach the radical mystery that often accompanies loss and lament as a spiritual opportunity rather than as a problem requiring a solution. By engaging a contemplative approach, we cultivate an environment of emotional refuge and deep peace in which we can name and offer our burdens to the Holy One.

Our time together will include poetry and contemplative reading, deep dialog in small breakout groups, writing exercises, and a closing liturgy. We especially invite those who are grieving any kind of loss or those who find the holiday season a painful or difficult time. We will gather via Zoom. The event is free but pre-registration is required; register for the workshop here.

For more information, contact Canon Jennifer Daugherty at jkdaugherty@saintmarks.org. 

Beloved community member Malcom McLaurin served as Canon for Youth and Young Adult Ministries for several years before he and his family moved to Sewanee, Tennessee to attend seminary at the University of the South. In this short video, he reflects on his relationship to the institution of the University and its troubling history.

The Rubric: Fall 2020 issue now available online

In continual publication since December of 1890, today The Rubric is Saint Mark's magazine, used to tell the story of the cathedral community to ourselves, the Diocese of Olympia, and the wider world. The publication of the spring issue was prevented by the rapidly changing situation, and so the new fall issue takes a step back and reflects in various ways about the unprecedented times we are living through.

...and much more. This issue will not be printed and mailed as a physical magazine. Rather the contents of the issue will be available online here, either using the Issuu reader interface, as a downloadable pdf, or as individual articles.

Church School on Sunday mornings has started up again for the Fall season! Children in Pre-K through second grade meet at 9 a.m. for Godly Play with Alicia Goodwin, where they tell bible stories with objects from home, make art together, and share their prayers and praises. Children in third through fifth grade meet at 10 a.m. for Exploring Saints and Sacraments with Kristen Kelly, where they study scripture together and make connections to life in quarantine, plan projects for the community, and more! Contact Kelly Moody, Associate for Spiritual Formation, for more information and zoom links at kmoody@saintmarks.org.

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!

In each 6–8-minute episode you'll hear a passage of scripture, reflect on the weekly chapter of The Path, and be invited into prayer. Search for "Prayer Podcast for Children" wherever you get your podcasts, or check out all the episodes here!

Join youth (grades 8-12) from all across Western Washington gather for games and activities, discussions, guest speakers, and worship, every Sunday at 7 p.m. Visit https://ecww.org/youth/ for more information and for the link to register.

NEXT SERVICE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7 P.M., over the phone and (optional) in-person

The 20s & 30s at Saint Mark's will be hosting prayer together on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at 7 p.m. This will be offered over the phone—the young adults decided that there were already too many videoconferences and Zoom meetings in their lives! The next offering will be Monday evening, October 26. Please email Canon Jennifer to receive the call-in information and liturgy for the service. Additionally, there will be an optional in-person gathering outdoors in groups of 5 or fewer to call in to our common prayer on the 4th Monday of each month. Please fill out this form if you are interested in joining a group or getting more information.

EVERY TUESDAY, 12–1 P.M., currently meeting via Zoom 

Tuesday Bible Study provides a weekly conversation around the scripture readings for the following Sunday. It has recently re-launched using the Zoom platform. Each week a discussion is facilitated and lively conversation ensues as people share their thoughts about the lessons. For more information and to get the link to join, contact The Rev. Canon Jennifer King Daugherty.

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.

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.