‘Love God; And Love Each Other.’ – Jesus |
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Thank you for joining us online and connecting with us.
God’s dream for the world is that we live in just peace and tender harmony, fostering a global community in which each members’ rights and responsibilities are affirmed and fulfilled. This community is marked by ‘love,’ in thought, word, and deed. For Christians, there’s nothing esoteric about this ‘love’ – it is visible, tangible, measureable – which means, for the Church, it’s also something we can, and do, practice together.
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Monday, January 24, 2022 |
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Due to the current Omicron numbers and for the safety of all, Saint Mark's is currently pausing in-person worship and limiting in-person programs.
You can find our worship online at ourcathedral.org and on Facebook. We know this is temporary and know we will see you in-person soon.
You can find the announcement from Canon Pastor Tim Kingsley by following this link.
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“Becoming Beloved Community Where We Are”: Shared Conversations Toward Racial Justice & Healing
Online with Zoom!
Wednesday nights “Gather Round,” 1/26, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23/2022
6:00 pm fellowship, 6:15 program begins
The painful realities of racial injustice are all around us. As followers of Jesus, we can feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the loss and the work before us. The good news is that we don’t do this alone. You are invited to join us as we explore these topics in the company of your faith community.
The Saint Mark’s Racial Justice & Healing Team has developed an introductory short-course to shine some light on possible next steps for you. The short-course, in alignment with the meta-theme of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s nine-year tenure, is called ‘Building Beloved Community (BBC)’ and aims to lay the groundwork of solidarity and trust among us as we, together, take our first steps into this multi-generational endeavor. Through short readings, video presentations, and small group discussions, we will develop a shared sense of purpose, a shared commitment to group norms, and a common lexicon and knowledge base for the work ahead.
Select chapters in Stephanie Spellers’ The Church Cracked Open are recommended (not required) for historical background.
In our five Wednesday ZOOM sessions, we are invited into a safe space for learning and reflection. The Zoom space will be open at 6:00 p.m., with the program starting promptly at 6:15. Brief recorded interviews, webinars, and documentary clips will offer us the voices of diverse Episcopalians— including those of mixed ethnic, indigenous, African-American, and LGBTQ+ identities.
In our confidential breakout discussions, we will share, as each desires, our reactions, questions, hopes, and fears. Participants will be pre-assigned to a small group. If you are a person of color and would prefer to be in a group with other people of color, you are invited to remain on the Zoom screen, and not accept the assigned group. You will then join a new group, with a specific group host.
We will reassemble and end with evening prayers.
So, please join us for our Gather Round - "Becoming Beloved Community Where We Are" (via zoom; Weds. 1.26, 2.2, 2.9, 2.16, 2.23) to put a ‘toe in the water’ of our Racial Justice and Healing journey and be part of this first step. We will learn, ponder and pray together and begin to have conversations among our members in a safe and secure environment. This is where we begin, so please join us!
Register below via Realm. You will receive the Zoom link in your confirmation after registering.
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Navigating the Virtual Playground
Monday, January 24th @ 7pm
Still time to sign up for tonight's workshop!
We invite all ECMN parents and adults with youth & children under their care to Navigating the Virtual Playground: Healthy Choices and Worrisome Pitfalls for Today’s Youth, a training from the Zero Abuse Project for Parents & Guardians.
We hope to be In-person in the Cathedral nave, and will offer online if needed.
Cyberbullying + Texting + Screen Time + Toxic Images = Yikes! As technology grows and adapts, children are growing and adapting right along with it. The online highway can have some steep learning curves for students and for parents. Youth can find themselves in over their head as technology choices move faster than their developmental abilities. Technology isn’t a bad thing, but young people need help in navigating this tool so that their empathy and sense of self can also grow and develop. This presentation details the risks students are facing, and practical, positive ways that adults can respond.
Led by Alison Feigh, MS, a lifelong Episcopalian and Youth Minister. Alison is the Director of Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, a program of Zero Abuse Project. In this role, she works with students, parents, youth workers, faith leaders, law enforcement and the media to help prevent abuse and abductions. Alison’s work also includes writing curriculum for youth-serving organizations, training professionals about the online challenges kids face and advocating for families of the missing.
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Saint Marks Episcopal Cathedral will be holding it's Annual Meeting - Sunday, January 30, 2022, at 9:30 am.
Saint Mark's Annual Meeting followed by Holy Eucharist. Join us to hear 2021 reports, elect leadership, and celebrate our Beloved Community.
- We will be holding our Annual Meeting online, livestreaming via Boxcast. You will find the link for the broadcast below.
- You will be able to "chat" and interact using the link below, as well as receive directions on voting.
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You will be able to watch the meeting on Facebook and the website, but will not be able to interact or vote.
- The meeting will be followed immediately by our 10:30 Holy Eucharist Worship, using the same broadcast link.
- Voting qualifications follow the eligibility requirements (from the Episcopal Church in America Canon I.17.2-3) which are that the voter be
- An Adult Communicant over the age of 16
- In good standing
- Have for the last year been faithful in corporate worship, unless for good cause prevented, and have been faithful in working, praying, and giving for the spread of the Kingdom of God
- Voting will take place by following a link posted in the chat on Boxcast TV (link below). We also hope to have the link for voting sent out via a reminder email.
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So What is Candlemas?
Candlemas and the Feast of the Purification, celebrated on February 2, commemorates the presentation of Jesus in the Temple, forty days after Christmas and his birth in accordance with Jewish practices. Celebration of Candlemas began in Jerusalem in the 4th century, where it included the blessing of candles which were used in the church and in homes throughout the year. Candles were carried in in procession, blessed and lit, and then brought out to symbolize bringing the light of Christ into the world. Saint Mark’s Cathedral will be blessing candles during Holy Eucharist on Sunday, February 6. The candles will be mailed to the family ministry list and available for pick up outside of the office doors 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. February 1-5.
If you would also like to have your family’s candles blessed on February 6, please drop them off at office door at Saint Mark’s 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. January 31 – February 4. Put the candles you want blessed in a paper bag and label the bag boldly with your last name. After the candles are blessed, they will be put outside the office doors for pick-up at the same time as the other candles.
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Within many very early Christian churches, women served in roles as ordained ministers called deacons and presbyters, both subordinate to the higher-ranking bishops (Priest didn’t become a “thing” till the 3rd century CE) By the second century CE, deacons functioned as liturgical assistants in the giving of the Eucharist and at baptisms, and could also be used to carry official letters and visit the sick and those in prison. The early Christian author Tertullian wrote about women presbyters who directly taught, healed, offered the Eucharist, and gave baptisms.
One such woman was Florence Li Tim-Oi, but from the 21st century! and on January 24th we celebrate her feast day.
Florence Li was born in Hong Kong and attended Canton Union Theological College in Mainland China to receive her theological education before returning to Hong Kong in 1938. After working for two years in All Saints Church, in Kowloon, helping refugees in Hong Kong who fled mainland China, Florence Li was sent by Bishop Ronald Hall to help with refugees in Macau. Six months into her new post, she returned to Hong Kong to be ordained as a deaconess on May 22nd 1941 by Bishop Hall.
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong and of some parts of China had made it impossible for Anglican priests to get to neutral Macau, where there was no resident Anglican priest. So, in January 1944, Li travelled through Japanese-occupied territory to the small town of Hsinxing, (yet to be occupied by the Japanese) to meet with Bishop Hall; from there they proceeded to Shaoqing where he ordaining her as a priest on 25 January 1944.
There is a lot more to learn about this amazing disciple of Jesus. I invite you to read on and then Pray on where your ministry might take you.
Agapé!
The Reverend Siri Hauge Hustad
Associate Clergy at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
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Dear Saint Mark's Parents & Caregivers......
3:30 - 5 p.m. Sunday, January 30 on Zoom.
You are warmly invited to the next Bishop's series for parents and caregivers, which will begin a discussion around some practical ways to both start and sustain conversations about race and racism with children. This session will be led by the Rev. Dr. Fatimah S. Salleh of A Certain Work. The Rev. Dr. Salleh led a clergy group that I was a part of for a year, from which I always left inspired, challenged, and seen. I am thrilled that she will be leading this conversation.
There will be time for Q&A and connecting with other parents in small groups.
Peace,
The Rev. Anna V. Ostenso Moore
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FINDING OUR OWN PEACE SO WE CAN BECOME PEACEMAKERS
A HIDDEN WHOLENESS: EXPLORING A CIRCLE OF TRUST
Join us, spread the word, & bring a friend! Find out more here.
Episcopal Peace Fellowship's series of free, one hour, online presentations continues on Sunday, February 6 at 4:00 pm Eastern with brave learning from Dan Hines. We hope to see you there. Register HERE
Presented by: Dan Hines Mentored by the activist and writer Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal, Dan Hines serves as an international freelance speaker, therapist, workshop facilitator and leadership consultant in various contexts and communities. His workshops and programs have taken him to China, Central America, throughout Canada and the U.S., and on sailboats and hiking trails. Dan, an Anglican priest, is co-founder of the intentional community, RareBirds Housing Co-operative, has run for public office, and has managed a zoo!
Our “hidden wholeness” is our safe haven amid the violence of the storm around us.
Please consider supporting Episcopal Peace Fellowship's Peacebuilding Online Project. Contribute HERE today!
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Spiritual Practices: Godly Play for All Ages, Tuesdays, 6:15-6:45 pm. on Zoom
Looking for new perspectives? Explore some parables with Godly Play, now through the end of February.
“Parables...wake us up to see in life what we have not seen before. Parables question the status quo, the order imposed by tradition, power, or class. That is why Jesus’ parables often got him into trouble, and why Christians ever since have sometimes redefined parables in ways that comfort us only rather than challenge us by disrupting our comfortable worldviews.”
- The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Vol. 3, Revised and Expanded.
Children, youth, and adults are all invited. Come any or every week. Contact Monica Kruger with questions.
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Weekly Online Contemplative Prayer Sits
Wednesdays, 4-4:40pm
The Episcopal House of Prayer and director Christine Luna Munger invite all in ECMN to join in the new online contemplative prayer community, with weekly sits. All are welcome, especially those new to this spiritual practice.
Find out more about this great space and resource, The Episcopal House of Prayer, here.
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Encounter the Gospel with
Gospel Based Discipleship
Gospel Based Discipleship includes an encounter with the Gospel, either individually or within a group. Gospel Based Discipleship is not a program. It is not Bible Study. It is an encounter with the Gospel, designed to engage people with the Gospel appointed for the day, or the Sunday proper. It depends on participants being willing to share responses to the three questions:
- What words or phrases did you hear?
- What is Jesus (the Gospel) saying to you?
- What is Jesus (the Gospel) calling you to do?
Join us every Monday at 12:15 online.
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Order your nametag
You will receive an email to inform you and your new nametag will be available in the main entry to Worship on our new nametag easel!.
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Monday
12:15pm Gospel Based Discipleship - On Zoom, Register Here
Wednesday
4pm Episcopal House of Prayer Contemplative Prayer - Zoom
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Special needs
Eric Baumgart, Matt Brandt, Raymond Evans, Gwen Goldsmith, Dudley Hanson, Nancy Hempel, Mary Huber, Marj Jacobsen, Kristin Jones, Anthony Paul Larson, the Matt family, Ryan Prins, Kathleen Schulenberg, Dolores Schraufnagel, Stephen Uhler, Will and Marin, Blake,
Departed
Nancy Lord Anderson, Othello Evans, Lyne Haag, Carol Inz, Charles Kehoe, Virginia Murphy, Berta Wick,
Ongoing prayers
Michael Adikwu, Lois Becker, Connie Donnelly, Linda Evans, Richard Evans, Marie Irwin, Anneke Jessup, Young Ja-lee, Senlin Liu, Ann Maas, Mady Malik, Susan Mundale, Marilyn Nelson, Kathy Otterson, Patty Paulus, Beverly and Tom Rutherford, Irene Sahyun, Terry Schlink, J.M. Stanton, Amara Strande,
Thanksgivings
For All Saints Episcopal Church in Northfield and the Anglican Church in Australia,
From the Book of Common Prayer, For Protection,
Assist us mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplications and prayers, and dispose the way of thy servants towards the attainment of everlasting salvation; that, among all the changes and chances of this mortal life, they may ever be defended by thy gracious and ready help; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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519 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone Number:
(612) 870-7800
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