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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Next Monday marks the Feast of the Annunciation. Many of us will be traveling to West Hartford, Connecticut that day for the 6 pm Evensong at Trinity College, when the chapel reredos and altar from St. Johns, Bowdoin St. will be rededicated in its new home in the Lady Chapel at Trinity. This event, fittingly, is also part of the year-long celebration of the 50
th
anniversary of co-education at Trinity College.
I love how the Feast of the Annunciation interrupts our Lenten journey, reminding us that God’s time is not linear, and that the whole story of salvation history is available to us always. This Sunday at the cathedral, we will display a beautiful banner of Mary, shown in this photo with its creator, Carole-Jean Smith. Here are a few words from Carole-Jean about it:
In my banner, I show Mary rejoicing in her oneness with God. The stillness and passivity with which she is identified in traditional Annunciation pictures, though valid to a point, is an unnecessarily limited way of interpreting this event. I show Mary vigorously engaging God’s plan. She is standing and raising above her head a glorious golden serpent, which is an ancient symbol of the renewing power of God. Because of the serpent’s ability to shed its skin many times, it seemed to live anew.….This banner takes Mary at her word – that her spirit rejoices – and unambiguously portrays her joy and spiritual strength.
If you would like to attend the re-dedication service at Trinity College, please be in touch with me for details. We have space in a few cars traveling down from Boston. Wherever you are, have a blessed Feast of the Annunciation, and give thanks for Mary’s vigorous engagement with God’s plan.
Christ's peace to you,
Amy
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The preacher this Sunday is
The Rev. Cynthia D. Pape
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Missed the latest Sermon?
Here you go!
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FaithMatters
FaithMatters this Sunday and throughout Lent: We are contemplating God’s “wondrous love” using the gradual hymn each Sunday, led by Music Director Louise Mundinger.
Flowers and linens
We are inviting special gifts, which will go toward Easter flowers and (badly needed) new linens for the cathedral. Checks can be cut to the cathedral with “Easter” in the memo. If you would like your gift to be listed as a memorial, please add a note saying “In memory of…..” If you would like your gift to be in honor of someone, please add a note saying “In thanksgiving for…” Gifts received before April 16 will be acknowledged in the Easter bulletin.
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Pardon our Scaffolding: A recent windstorm tore loose a piece of the roof above the portico. Repairs should be completed within two weeks. The cathedral is open throughout!
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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.
Bible study of the Sunday gospels will be lead by Dean Amy E. McCreath in Lent on Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:30 pm, in the sanctuary following the Lenten preaching series & lunch conversations.
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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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The dedication and Evensong has been postponed until a later date.
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Choral Evensong
March 31st at 5p
We are offering a special Choral Evensong on the 4
th
Sunday of Lent, known as Refreshment Sunday. It will be at 5 pm at the cathedral and feature Magnificat Boston. An opportunity for spiritual refreshment and joy for the final leg of the Lenten journey. Free and open to the public.
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Holy Week
Palm Sunday (4/14) - 10 am
Palm Procession to the Shaw Monument, followed by Passion Sunday liturgy.
Maundy Thursday (4/18) - 6 pm
Agape Meal, followed by foot washing and stripping of the altar.
Good Friday (4/19)
8:30 am - Sung Morning Prayer with homily and Veneration of the Cross - Dean Amy McCreath presiding
Noon - Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday with Veneration of the Cross - Bishop Alan Gates, preaching and presiding
6:00 pm - Stations of the Cross
Holy Saturday (4/20) - 9:00 am
Contemplative Holy Saturday Service (from the Book of Common Prayer) - The Rev. Jennifer McCracken presiding, Dean Amy McCreath, preaching
10 am - noon - Polishing Party: Help shine the silver and brass and prepare the sanctuary for Easter joy. Coffee and hot cross buns provided!
Easter Vigil (4/20) - 7:00 pm
Hosted by the Crossing. Bishop Alan Gates, presiding.
Easter Day Festive Eucharist (4/21) - 10:00 am
Bishop Barbara Harris, presiding, Dean Amy McCreath, preaching.
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Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry to visit Massachusetts
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Fri, 04/26/2019 - Mon, 04/29/201
Everyone is invited!
Come gather with Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry and be inspired, challenged and blessed as he proclaims the transforming power of walking the “Way of Love” with Jesus.
In addition to several ministry visits and meetings with designated groups that Bishop Curry will be making around the diocese over the course of the weekend, there will be public gatherings with him on Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 to which all are welcome.
If you would like to help provide hospitality for his time at the cathedral and on Boston Common, please contact Kevin Vetiac.
Details and updates about Bishop Curry’s visit can be found online
here
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Click
here
for the Facebook event.
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SNAKES AND LADDERS
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on a bench across from the Public Garden. I sat at one end; at the other end was this gentleman. I too am homeless, in my fifth year of homelessness, and I too know the pain in our hearts. I didn't know him, but he looked like a brilliant man. He had a great hat on, disheveled jacket and khakis, and he seemed very interested in what was going on over at the Frog Pond, where there were children laughing and playing. The two of us sat there, the swan boats went by, no one seemed to care. It's like that in the city of Boston, where I was raised. Thinking of that man today, it brings a tear to my eye.
I'm very disappointed with some people I know. Third parties are in my business again, and then emotional vampires ask me if I'm OK. Look, stop now. Stop! I've had it. All they are doing is delaying my exit. I'm not on any narcotic. Test me and I'll test negative. Unlike some of those gossipers.
by Karen Slattery
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Diocesan
Cycle of Prayer
This week we pray for
All Saints Parish, Brookline
Church of Our Saviour, Brookline
St. Paul’s Church, Brookline
Episcopal Chaplaincy at Boston University, Brookline
The Church Home Society
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