‘Love God; And Love Each Other.’ – Jesus |
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God’s mission in the world is to reconcile all things to God’s self. It is to return us to one-ness with God and with one another. To engage God’s mission is to live into the invitation of baptism by joining God in that reconciling work, whether that be in our cathedral community, in relationship with others, or in our neighborhoods. Below please find opportunities to be part of creating Beloved Community by practicing the Way of Love through service and justice-making. |
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021 |
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Land Acknowledgment
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral acknowledges that we are located on the ancestral homeland of the Dakota People. We are in close proximity to the territories of the Anishinaabe and Ho-Chunk peoples. This land has been stewarded as a living relative by the Dakota for generations. The United States government effectively stole this land from the Dakota people through a series of unjust treaties and broken promises, followed by targeted efforts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced removal.
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, born out of White Protestantism, recognizes our complicity in these matters. The United States government often carried out this injustice in cooperation with institutionalized white churches. The trauma of forced assimilation and the boarding school system is a stain that cannot be washed away. But we can repent of that past and turn towards a more just future.
We look now to the Dakota people and indeed all Native American communities located in the State of Minnesota as examples of resilience, resistance, and strength. We stand resolute in our commitment to oppose any threat to Indigenous culture or tribal sovereignty, be it political, industrial, or religious.
We were wrong, we can do better, we will do better.
Adapted for Saint Mark's from the Minnesota Council of Churches
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Please Support Our Effort to Co-Sponsor an Afghan Refugee Family NOW
We are assessing the volunteer skills and goods we will need to support the family as they transition into a new country, a new city, and a new place to call home. We will have very little warning as to when they will arrive, so preparations are underway. Please contact Lindsay Strand here to learn more about volunteering as part of our cathedral support team. Drivers are especially needed. We are also collecting gift cards to Cub Foods and Target, now through The Feast of the Epiphany. If you would like to donate a gift card, you may either put it in the collection plate on Sunday or mail it to:
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
Attn: Archdeacon Turnham
519 Oak Grove St, Minneapolis, MN 55403
As our Presiding Bishop Michael Curry reminds us, “The ministry of offering welcome to those fleeing violence is nothing less than God’s work—one that calls us to walk the way of love as Jesus of Nazareth taught us, through compassion, through practical care, showing to our newest neighbors that we are neighbors.” Amen.
“People, look east and sing today: Love, the guest, is on the way.”
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Free Thanksgiving Day
Meals in Minneapolis
November 25, 2021
Catholic Charities Opportunity Center
612-204-8300, 11:30am , 740 E 17th St (corner of 17th and Chicago), Minneapolis. Breakfast will be served at 7:00am
Sharing & Caring Hands
612-338-4640, 9:00-10:00am
525 N 7th St., Minneapolis
Post-Thanksgiving Meal
Sunday, Nov 28, Plymouth Congregational Church. 1900 Nicollet Ave S.,
Minneapolis, 612-871-7400.Hot meal ‘to-go’ and extra food starting at 5pm.
Additional Resources for Food
The Minnesota Food Helpline
Looking for free groceries at the holidays and throughout the year? Find out where your neighborhood food shelf is located by calling The Minnesota Food Helpline at - 1-888-711-1151.
United Way First Call for Help Hotline
Provides information about free meals and groceries all throughout the year. Call 211 from a landline or 651-291-0211 from a cell phone. You can also check the United Way website here.
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Inspiration and Tools for Conversations Around the Thanksgiving Table
Engaging in the Hard Work of Community This Thanksgiving
By Kaitlin Curtice
Read the full article here. Here’s an excerpt:
“Before we make assumptions about one another, let’s posture ourselves as people who give invitations to conversation. While we are at the dinner table with our racist conservative uncles or our self-proclaimed “woke” progressive aunts, how do we hold space with the reality of our collective complicity? If we are black, Indigenous, or people of color, how do we protect ourselves from situations that harm us?”
From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference
“Conversation with others across difference is not just a nice thing to do. It is a spiritual practice of love in action.”
– Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
“The body is not made up of one part but of many.”
– 1 Corinthians 12:14
What do you love? What have you lost? Where does it hurt? What do you dream?
“From Many, One: Conversations Across Difference” is a campaign inviting Episcopalians and our neighbors to engage in one-to-one listening and sharing across the many differences that separate us.
Echoing the Latin phrase on the U.S. seal – E Pluribus (“from many”) Unum (“one”) – and following in the footsteps of Jesus, we trust that the spiritual practice of conversation across difference can help to knit us all into a diverse, more perfect union.
The conversations are focused on four revealing, engaging questions:
1) What do you love?
2) What have you lost?
3) Where does it hurt?
4) What do you dream?
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash
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From ECMN: Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. Please take time this week to read through some of the resources below, and spend some time reflecting with gratitude and celebration on the incredible gifts of our Native neighbors and ancestors.
Sacred Sites Tours - Minnesota Council of Churches. Although they're on hold for the winter, the Sacred Sites tour is a transformative experience for those who attend. Highly recommended!
Our diocese is blessed with rich diversity, and Ojibwe and Dakota culture, customs, and communities have brought such beauty to our life together. Please take time this week to pray particularly for the Indigenous faith communities of ECMN:
Dakota
Messiah, Prairie Island
Bishop Whipple Mission/St. Cornelia's, Lower Sioux
Ojibwe
Leech Lake
St. Peter's, Cass Lake
St. John's, Onigum
White Earth
Samuel Memorial Church, Naytawaush
Breck Memorial Mission, Ponsforrd
St. Columba's, White Earth
St. Philip's, Rice Lake
Red Lake
St. John in the Wilderness, Red Lake
St. Antipas, Redby
Inter-Tribal
All Saints, Minneapolis
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Episcopal Service Corps
Applications Now Open
The Episcopal Church invites young leaders ages 21 to 32 interested in a transformative outreach and discernment experience to consider applying to the Episcopal Service Corps for its 2022-23 service year.
Every year, 80-100 young leaders serve more than 120,000 hours in local and community-based nonprofits and churches through the Episcopal Service Corps, helping in rural ministries, homelessness support, healthcare, immigration and refugee resettlement, housing justice, education for at-risk youth, and much more. Participants live together in community, creating and living by a household “Rule of Life,” and committing to regular spiritual direction and prayer in addition to service.
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Community Aid Network of MN Now Open at Saint Mark's!
Community Aid Network of MN - CANMN is a volunteer-led mutual aid organization serving the residents of Minneapolis. CANMN works to build mutual aid bonds with Minneapolis neighbors, organize volunteers and redistribute resources to ensure everyone has the means for dignified survival.
As of November 1st,Saint Mark’s Cathedral is CAMMN’s new ‘drive up’ distribution site. CANMN’s Saint Mark’s location is open for distribution Mondays 11am - 2 pm and Thursdays 5pm - 7pm. If you would like to donate or volunteer, learn more here.
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Saint Mark’s ACTION Project Participants Finish Up a Year of Good Work!
Last October, thirty one Saint Mark’s members, staff and clergy began a year-long journey with the Rev. Jia Starr Brown, Senior Pastor of First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, as part of the first ACTION Project in Minneapolis! Twenty two of the thirty one participants will be retaking the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) assessment to see if their understanding of culture and ethnicity has changed over the past year. Thank you to those who participated!
What’s next?
Last year, the Minnesota Council of Churches (MCC) took extraordinary steps toward repairing harms to African American and Native American communities in Minnesota, by announcing a ten-year effort of truth telling, education and reparations work. MCC is thrilled to announce a partnership with Rev. Jia Starr Brown to bring forth the ACTION Project as the second vital prong to its timely and overdue justice work.
The “ACTION Project” is now a three-year curricular journey that will bring individuals and faith communities together who are willing to make “A Commitment To Inclusion in Our Neighborhoods” (acronym: ACTION). Learn more here. Interested in being part of the ACTION Project next year as part of a group of Saint Markans? Please contact Archdeacon Rena Turnham to be added to a list of interested members. Details to come!
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Join us for 'Called to Serve'!
NEW THIS FALL at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, stop by our Monthly Virtual Community Engagement Connection Space ‘Called to Serve’ on the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Our next gathering is Tuesday, December 7th.
Grounded in prayer and through casual conversation, cathedral staff, clergy and members will help you to identify and connect your gifts and your passions with God’s mission of Beloved Community. This is the place to learn about and connect with local charity and relief opportunities as well as advocacy and social justice efforts, whether it be through an organized cathedral effort or with other community organizations, across ECMN, as part of local ecumenical and interfaith efforts, or even in your own neighborhood. Register here. |
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Conversations with "Those People"
Presented by Episcopal Peace Fellowship in Partnership with Braver Angels
Sunday, December 5, Online
American society has, for decades, been fragmenting into groups of the like-minded, so that we are losing the spirit and the skills to relate to human beings as opposed to mirrors. Bishop Mark Beckwith and Braver Angels offer ways we can regain the capacity to live authentically in the midst of diversity.
The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (2007-2018) and now serves as Partnership Coordinator for Bishops United Against Gun Violence. He is active with Braver Angels.
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Join Our ‘Faith in Action’ Efforts at Saint Mark’s
Interested in our gun violence prevention advocacy ministry? Contact Archdeacon Rena Turnham. *Lay leader(s) needed!*
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519 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone Number:
(612) 870-7800
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