We are A House of Prayer for All God's People.
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Our Sunday congregation welcomes you to beautiful worship and life-giving fellowship. Our motto is “When in doubt, we choose love.” Join us Sundays @ 10a!
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The Crossing is our grassroots, justice-focused, do-it-yourself church community of hipsters, heretics, homeless, and other unlikely pilgrims. Join us
Thursdays, dinner @ 6p & worship @7p.
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MANNA (Many Angels Needed Now and Always) is a ministry of and with the homeless community in downtown Boston. We need each other. And this is why we gather each week to serve, to pray, and to create together. Join MANNA throughout the week for any number of our programs!
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Our Episcopal Boston Chinese Ministry (EBCM) serves the Chinese-speaking community in Downtown Boston, hosting both traditional and contemporary worship services in Mandarin and Cantonese. We invite you to join us on Sundays @12:30p.
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Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch. – Luke 5:4
In last Sunday’s gospel, Jesus invites some very tired fishermen, who are packing it in after a fruitless night on the waters, to head back out and try again. This is such a hard, holy moment. Will they say, “Nope. We’re going home,” which would be the rational response? Or will they go for it, against the odds and despite their exhaustion?
When we hear that homelessness rose 14% in Boston last year, and we consider the cost of housing here and the complexity of the other causes of homelessness, it can be easy to throw up our hands, pack up our nets, and head home. One of the great gifts of our cathedral community is its determination not to do this. Every week, not only are unhoused people offering ministry to us and to one another within our walls, but lay leaders and staff here are accompanying people who are navigating the obstacles to obtaining housing, praying and preaching about the crisis, and asking one another, “What should we do next?”
Last Sunday, the MANNA singers were featured at the Winter Walk, which raises awareness and funds to help end homelessness in Boston. The photo here shows them with Mayor Marty Walsh. On February 28, I’ll be participating in the MA Coalition for the Homeless’s Legislative Action Day, so I can learn more and raise my voice in support of my friends in Christ who are on the streets.
I invite you to join me. Click
here
to learn more. Click
here
to register!
Of course, the Rev. Tina Rathbone has done so much to help our cathedral live into it’s capacity to serve and build community with those who are unhoused. As Tina prepares to leave her ministry here and “put out into the deep” again, we give thanks for her faithfulness and witness. Click
here
for details. Please do plan to join us on March 3
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at 4 pm here for a celebration in her honor!
Click here to RSVP!
Christ's peace to you,
Amy
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This Sunday, February 17
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany
The Very Rev. Amy McCreath
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The preacher this Sunday is
The Very Canon Cristina Rathbone
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Missed the latest Sermon?
Here you go!
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Faith Matters
Our FaithMatters series in the season after Epiphany will ask "Where shall we bring the light of Christ?" Each week, a member of the congregation will share with us their commitment to an aspect of social justice and lead us in conversation. Then we will discern our next steps as a congregation in our work for justice. Social Justice Committee meets after FaithMatters, in the 2nd floor conference room.
Feb. 17 - Ambrose Spenser on global warming
Feb. 24 - Bernetta Morton on racial justice
March 3 - Reflection & next steps
Are you interested in being baptized or confirmed?
Baptism is the sacrament through which people become full members of the Body of Christ. Confirmation is for people who were baptized earlier in life and now want to claim their Christian faith within the Episcopal Church as adults. If you are interested in being baptized or confirmed by Bishop Gates at the cathedral’s Easter Vigil (April 20
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at 6 pm), please speak with Dean Amy before March 3
rd
to learn more about the preparation season, which will run through Lent.
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An Evening With The Pilgrim
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Sunday, February 17th @ 5p
Since 2012, the Brookline Booksmith has generously hosted an annual celebration for The Pilgrim: the literary magazine from the homeless community of downtown Boston, edited by Atlantic staff writer James Parker and published out of the Cathedral Church of St Paul. These evenings are reliably extraordinary. Pilgrim contributors share work from across the full spectrum of the homeless/transitional/recently housed experience, and the writers meet their readers. 2019 promises to be another revelatory and challenging year for the magazine and its writers, and we need your support. Please join us to celebrate 8 years of The Pilgrim at the Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, on Sunday February 17th at 5pm.
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Ordination of The Rev. Tamra Tucker
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Saturday, Feb. 23rd @ 2p
Please join us on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2pm for the ordination of The Rev. Tamra Tucker, The Crossing’s Pastor & Lead Organizer-In-Charge, to the priesthood! Gifts can be made out to St. Paul’s Cathedral with “Crossing Discretionary Fund in the memo.
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Thursday, Feb. 28th
The Social Justice Committee of the Sunday Congregation invites you to join the MA Coalition for the Homeless for a Legislative Action Day on Thursday, Feb. 28th. This is a chance to learn more about the housing crisis in our region, connect with others working for change, and advocate for policies and funding in support of housing for all. Click
here
to sign up!
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Sunday March 3rd @ 4p at The Cathedral Church of St Paul
Come help us celebrate The Rev. Canon Tina Rathbone as she prepares to leave her life and work with The MANNA Community and The Cathedral Church of St. Paul!
Gifts in her honor, in support of MANNA, may be made payable to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, with "Thank you Tina!" in the memo line, and sent to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Attention: Kevin Vetiac, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111.
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March 6
8:30a
- Morning Prayer with Homily & Imposition of Ashes
Noon
- Holy Eucharist (Misa - Spanish Language) with Imposition of Ashes
5:30p
- Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes
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Thursdays in Lent, 12:00 to 12:30 pm
Join us for the
Lenten Preaching Series
at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Thursdays in Lent, 12:00 to 12:30 pm, with light lunch and conversation with the preacher following. Bring your own brown bag lunch or partake of the light lunch provided.
Theme: What is Truth?
Pilate's question to Jesus, "What is Truth?" (Jn. 18:38) resonates through the ages, as each of us stands before God wrestling with questions of meaning and identity. In our time, the idea of truth is under attack in new ways, challenging our coherence as a society and our witness as a church. This Lent, we will hear from pastors, poets, and scholars who are prayerfully engaging this question.
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Wisdom From the Desert: A Lenten Day Workshop
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Saturday March 16, 2019 9a-4:00p
For more information: contact Phil Hardwick
ga2ma@aol.com
617-827-8805
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The Beauty and Legacy of St. John’s, Bowdoin St. Extended...
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Monday, March 25
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at 5:15p
During the merger of St. John’s, Bowdoin St. and the Cathedral, the beautiful Ralph Adams Cram designed Lady Chapel altar and reredos from St. John’s was given to Trinity College in West Hartford, CT. Trinity is now ready to install and dedicate the Lady Chapel altar and reredos. They will be doing this at an Evensong on Monday, March 25
th
at 5:15 pm, with a dinner and discussion following. The Evensong will be part of the college’s celebration of 50 years of coeducation at the college. Dean Amy McCreath will be participating, and the Rev. Katharine Black will be giving a reflection during the service. All are invited to attend.
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JOSE ON HIS THRONE
(NOT ALONE)
Last night
I decided to give it my last fight.
Why did this guy
come through with such a reply?
I don’t understand why
he wanted to hurt me with such a big sigh.
He wanted to gouge me in in the eye.
I’m a beautiful person.
People always tryin’ to be lurkin’.
I have a good soul, I have all control.
I make n__s look sad,
on their greatest day bad.
I’m glad, on my saddest day mad.
I thank God I’m the baddest of the bad.
I thank God for the dream I had.
-Jose
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"Meditation does call for generosity because it calls for everything. It calls for that abandonment of desire and desiring and, positively, it calls for generous openness to God’s destiny for us, to His plan for us, to His love for us. What you discover in meditation is just that – His love for you. So many people when they hear about meditation for the first time think of it as some extraordinarily dry, intellectual, unemotional, unaffective way. But it is none of those things. It is commitment to and openness to infinite love, and that love is like a mighty fountain busting through in your heart.
The mantra is like the needle of a compass. It heads you always in the direction of your own destiny. It points always to the true direction you must follow, away from self into God and, whichever way your ego may lead you, the compass is always faithful in the direction it points you. The mantra, if you say it with generosity, with faithfulness and with love will always point you in the direction of God and it is only in God that our true destiny can be revealed."
-The Way of Unknowing
What does this excerpt drum up in you?
In what direction is the compass pointing you?
What are you abandoning?
How have you experienced or lived into generosity this week?
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To stay up-to-date on what's happening in DioMass:
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Diocesan
Cycle of Prayer
This week we pray for
St. Mary’s Church, Barnstable
St. Peter’s-on-the-Canal, Buzzards Bay
St. Christopher’s Church, Chatham
St. Andrew’s Church, Edgartown
Union of Black Episcopalians
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