Featured Events and Announcements
This page was last updated on February 3, 2012.
Saint Mark's hosts a variety of programs and events. A listing of events- including Sunday music- can be found in our monthly publication: this January at Saint Mark's. Hard copies are also available at the Cathedral. For a full schedule of Cathedral activities please see the online calendar.
Sundays and Beyond with the Weekly Update from the Canon Missioner
A weekly publication which announces events, new ministry opportunities, classes and more, and includes a reflection from a member of the clergy.
Sundays and Beyond also contains our prayer list.
Arts at Saint Mark's Concert Season 2011-2012
The new series brochure is now available for download here. To purchase advance passes, contact The Cathedral Shop.
this February - a calendar of events happening this month at the Cathedral.
Compiled at the beginning of the month.
- Quick list! Scroll down or click on the link to learn more about these events.
- Grief Support Group date tbd
- Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability, Sunday, January 15 - February 19
- Training for new Eucharistic visitors Saturday, January 28
- Annual Meeting, Elections and Festive Meal Sunday, January 29
- SAGE Monthly Luncheon Wednesday, February 1
- Habitat for Humanity Saturday, February 4
- A Conversation on Non Violence Sunday, February 5
- Greenbelt Group Saturday, February 11
- Hunger Offering Sunday, February 12
- Winter Agape Meal Sunday, February 12
- 2012 Interfaith Advocacy Day Tuesday, February 14
- Arts at Saint Mark's presents: Cathedral Trio Friday, February 17
- Saint Mark's Quilt Ministry Saturday, February 18
- Gumbo, Alleluia scroll, Masks, Desserts and Dancing: It’s Mardi Gras! Tuesday, February 21
- Ash Wednesday Wednesday, February 22
- A Workshop on Planning your Memorial Service Saturday, February 25
- SAGE Trip to Berlin, April 22 - May 2
Grief Support Group
Date TBD
The Rev. Irene Tanabe's office (2d floor Bloedel Hall)
For people in need of the support of others who have also lost someone close. Please contact the Rev. Tanabe if you are interested in this group. Group will schedule a time that is mutually agreeable.
The Pastoral Care Associate is open to beginning other grief groups. Contact the Rev. Irene Tanabe at 206.323.0300, ext. 227 or itanabe@saintmarks.org
Hungry for Change: Food, Ethics and Sustainability
Sundays, January 15 - February 19, 6 pm
Leffler Living Room
Book discussion series. Readings explore the interconnectedness of food and our relationship with it. Book/info available from Carolyn White carolynewhite@comcast.net
Training for new Eucharistic visitors
Sunday, January 28, 9 am-1 pm
Leffler Living Room
If you are interested in St. Mark's ministry providing communion to the sick, elderly, or shut-in, please join us for training to become a Eucharistic Visitor. Time commitment is approx. once/month.
Contact Danielle at linkd@spu.edu
SAGE Monthly Luncheon
Wednesday, February 1
Planning Meeting: 11:45 a.m.
Noon Eucharist (Thomsen Chapel)
Luncheon: 12:45 p.m.
Bloedel Hall
Free will offering. All ages invited and encouraged to attend.
SAGE is a loosely organized ministry at Saint Mark’s Cathedral honoring the contribution of elders to the life of this community.
Habitat for Humanity
Saturday, February 4
Rainier Vista
A crew of Saint Mark's volunteers will be helping Seattle Habitat build homes in Rainier Vista in southeast Seattle. Sign up on Sunday at the Habitat table in the coffee corner. For more information call Gordon Miller (425.427.8172) or Mary Mullen (206.789.0303).
A Conversation on Non Violence
Sunday, February 1 - 3 pm
Bloedel Hall
Join parishioners, community neighbors, Occupy Seattle members, and those from various faith communities for a conversation on Nonviolence with Kazu Haga, Oakland activist and international trainer of Kingian Nonviolence, a systemic framework of conceptual principles and pragmatic strategies to reduce violence. Admission is free; donations appreciated.
Greenbelt Group Workparty
Saturday, February 11
10 am - 2 pm, meet at the Greenbelt Trailhead-lower/south end of parking lot
Looking for an easy way to be part of the Cathedral community?
Spend a few hours on a Saturday and help beautify the grounds of the Cathedral for all to enjoy. Join the Greenbelt Group and help clean the ravine by removing invasive plants, maintaining the trails and replanting with native vegetation.
No experience or tools necessary, but bring gloves or a water bottle if you have them. Contact: Robert, rehayden2000@aim.com.
Hunger Offering
Sunday, February 12
Cathedral Nave
Please help those who do not have enough to eat by donating to the Hunger Offering this Sunday. Collection baskets can be found at the back of the nave and on the Hunger Offering table. Contact: Sarah Beer sarahbeer@comcast.net.
Winter Agape Meal
Sunday, February 12, 6 pm
Cathedral Nave
Please join this celebratory meal. All are welcome. Bring your favorite food to share. Bring bread, olives, cheese, hummus, meats, fish, salad, fresh or dried fruit, wine, juice: all foods are welcome and make up the meal. Since it is winter how about some good seasonal squash to round out the palate?
The schedule for Sunday afternoon and evening is:
4:30 pm – Prepare Together: Come to Bloedel Hall early to set tables and get the room ready
5:30 pm – Pray Togethe: Choral Evensong by the Women’s Choir
6:00 pm – Feast Together: Enjoy fellowship with the community you love and learn about one of the Lenten disciplines that will be offered during Lent: “Civil Discourse” a five-week small-group study series
Questions? Need more information? Call or email Jo Ann Bailey, jbailey@saintmarks.org, 206-329-5428
2012 Interfaith Advocacy Day
Tuesday, February 14
Olympia, WA
Join St Mark's Hunger Offering Ministry and others in the faith community across Washington State for FAN's 2012 Interfaith Advocacy Day, “Uniting Hearts and Minds: Raising Revenue for the Common Good.”Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in Olympia, WA
Contact: SarahBeer@comcast.net or fan@fanwa.org for more info.
The Cathedral Trio
Friday, February 17, 7:30 pm
Thomsen Chapel
Brian Fairbanks, flute, Joyce Ramée, viola, and Naomi Kato, harp
$10 suggested donation at the door or obtain a pass in advance at the Cathedral Shop (www.shopatsaintmarks.org or 206.323.1040).
Saint Mark's Quilt Ministry
Saturday, February 18, 9:30 - 12noon
Conference Room
Join us in the Conference Room on the second floor of Bloedel Hall to tie quilts, start a new one or work on your own projects. Starting this month we will meet regularly on the third Saturday of each month. Contact Carol Green at ccgreen@u.washington.edu or Jo Ann Bailey at jbailey@saintmarks.org
Gumbo, Alleluia scroll, Masks, Desserts and Dancing: It’s Mardi Gras!
Tuesday, February 21, 6 - 8 pm
Bloedel Hall
The liveliest multi-generational party at Saint Mark’s: a band, mask-making, great dinner, fabulous desserts, creating and hiding the alleluia scroll, and burning the palms in preparation for Ash Wednesday! Yes, it’s a school night, but it is a fabulous contrast to Lent, which begins the next day with Ash Wednesday. Everyone is invited!
Interested in helping with set up, serving or clean up? Contact Alan at alan@saintmarks.org
Ash Wednesday: Holy Eucharist with Impostion of Ashes
Wednesday, February 22
7:30 a.m. Thomsen Chapel
12noon Cathedral Nave
6:30 p.m. Cathedral Nave (Bp. Rickel presides and preaches)
Bloedel Hall
The doorway to Lent. The liturgy is one of contrasts, beginning with sobering reflection on our mortality and our sin through the readings, homily, Litany of Penitence and imposition of ashes. But the liturgy then carries us into the abiding joy of the Eucharist, the Holy meal that celebrates and makes present anew God’s forgiveness and love.
A Workshop on Planning your Memorial Service
Saturday, February 25, 9 am - 12noon
Bloedel Hall
What’s Possible? What Do You Want?
The Planned Giving Committee invites you to a free workshop co-sponsored by Saint Mark’s Foundation’s Planned Giving Committee, Saint Mark’s Stewardship Committee, and the Diocese of Olympia’s Stewardship Office. There will be lots of handouts, time for questions, etc. RSVP to Alicia Sands, 206-323-0300 x 214
Speakers & topics:
Church’s role — Greg Rickel, Bishop
Liturgy choices — Janet Campbell, Canon for Liturgy
Musical choices — Tom and Carol Foster, Director of Music, Epiphany
Practical concerns — Will Lewis, Senior Warden, St. Andrew’s
Family involvement — Lance Ousley, Canon for Stewardship and Development
SAGE Trip to Berlin
April 22 - May 1, 2012
an opportunity for any parishioner to visit our own former Pastor and Biblical scholar, Dan Conklin. Experience museums from antiquity to modern. Have personal contacts in churches (Berlin Cathedral, Dans own St. Marys, St. Georges Anglican). See the citys historical sites Reichstag, Chancellery, the Holocaust Memorial and Jewish Museum. Remember East/West Germany, the Wall, Check Point Charlie? Enjoy a boat ride/tour of the city on the river Spree or stroll/shop on Kurfkurstendamm (the Broadway of West Germany). Explore with day trips to Palace Sans Souci in Potsdam, the spa town of Bad Sappow with its thermal waters, or the Polish border town of Stettin (Szczecin) on the Oder. Participants can determine activities with high to low energy options.
We must have commitments and make final plans in January . Cost Estimates will be available Jan. 4 and presented at the SAGE luncheon/Program on Wed., Jan. 4, Bloedel Hall. Learn more about this event contact: Kathie Moen, 206-257-0050, kpgm@pax-jus.us and/or come to SAGE Luncheon/Program on Wed., Jan. 4, Bloedel Hall