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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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In-Person Worship Sunday, June 13th.
Per our Covid Protocols, we will be having limited In-Person worship this coming Sunday, with the limited number of 150 participants.
Register here on our website. Registration opens at 12 noon each Monday preceding, and will remain open until full or Friday at 12 noon. Please read all the information and directions before registering.
You are not registered until you receive an email confirmation!
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For the pilgrim, the journey is as important as the destination.
Pilgrims often travel together, in groups. Every step is taken in community and sustained by camaraderie. In these last perilous months our journeys have been difficult. But our fellow pilgrims within and outside of St. Mark's have borne us up when we faltered. You are invited to come to the Cathedral for a pause in your pilgrimage to intercede, give thanks, praise, or sit in the quiet and listen for the "still small voice." Take the opportunity to look around and recall the friends who sit near you and pray for their pilgrimages along with your own.
Starting June 1st
Our Personal Pilgrimage schedule. No registration needed.
- 11am to 1pm Monday - Thursday
- 5-7pm Wednesdays
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Godly Play – Summer in Creation
I hope summer brings you the gift of being able to enjoy creation. Maybe you’ll explore green and growing things or come close to creatures that swim in the water, fly in the air, or walk on the earth. Maybe the Good Shepherd will lead you to good green grass or cool clear water. I wonder what that grass or water will be like. I wonder what you’ll like best about it and what will be important there. I wonder if you’ll discover new stories or things that are about you. Play, rest and remember the great gifts of creation.
If you have questions or stories to share, please contact Godly Play Coordinator, Monica Kruger.
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Welcome Chelsea!
On Pentecost, Chelsea Stanton joined Saint Mark’s for a year-long internship as part of her diaconal formation. During our time together, she will learn, practice, pray and reflect in various aspects of ministry and mission. On Sunday 6.13 Chelsea will be introduced to the congregation. Please greet Chelsea and welcome her to the cathedral community and please pray for her during this important time in her formation.
Get to Know Chelsea
Chelsea Stanton grew up in a working-class family of nones (as in, no religious affiliation). She was the first in her family to attend college where, after attending various churches as a child, she found a haven of inclusivity, questioning, and resilient faith in an Episcopal church in conservative northwest Iowa. After graduation in 2011, she sensed a call to the intersection of faith and social justice that led her to Atlanta, GA where she spent three years, two of them with The Road Episcopal Service Corps.
Chelsea moved to Minnesota in 2014 to attend United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Social Transformation. After getting married in 2016, she joined St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in St. Paul with her spouse. There she began to explore a growing call to the diaconate. She is beginning her third year of formation and is on track to be ordained to the sacred order of deacons in fall 2022.
Chelsea enjoys traveling, reading, trying to sew, and being overly excited about brand guides and office supplies. She currently works from home for YMCA of the North where she helps make programs available for online registration. She lives with her spouse, Jeb Rach, and two adorable cats in the Battle Creek neighborhood of St. Paul.
Chelsea is grateful for the opportunity to grow into her diaconal identity within the vibrant community that is Saint Mark’s. She hopes that we can work together to be justice-makers toward Beloved Community.
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Help us plan for next fall!
We have finished our program year, and Wednesday evenings (aka Round Table) ended with the important topic of Climate Justice. If you missed it, you can find videos of the presentations here on Youtube.
Many of you attended Formation (virtually) at least one of the weeks during the past year; we are grateful for your presence and will miss you on Wednesday evenings during the summer. We will appreciate any feedback you may have here. If you did not attend the Wednesday evenings, please access the survey and let us know what kept you from attending. Thank you.
Mary Lusk and Jay Phelan
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Summer is Coming!
Our summer schedule has started..
-- Choral Evensong is on summer sabbatical.
-- Wednesday Noonday prayer will now be Holy Eucharist, 12:15 pm, in the nave.
-- Our Personal Pilgrimage schedule will change June 1st. No registration needed.
- 11am to 1pm Monday - Thursday
- 5-7pm Wednesdays,
-- The campus and office schedule will be 9am-4pm Monday-Thursday & 9am -12noon Fridays.
-- Pride Festival in Loring Park July 17-18.
-- Our regular program schedule will return Sunday, September 12th.
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Meet the Garbage Guy!
You may have observed Gregg Hickey as a Thurifer at special worship services. In addition he has a unique practice of community and environmental activism, as illustrated by an article in the Northeaster newspaper of Minneapolis. Read a transcript of the article here!
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Who Are You?
Check with an usher for your nametag. We have received some of the back order.
It is so wonderful that we are beginning to experience Sunday Worship together again! And as face masks will continue to be a part of our procedures, a personal name tag is extra important. If you have your Saint Mark’s name tag, please wear it to worship. If you can’t find it, or it is not in good shape, please order a new one here.
When the new name tags arrive at St Mark’s, you will receive an email to inform you and you can pick it up as you check-in on a Sunday.
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Special needs
The Betekhtin family, David Dean, Bill Donovan, Barbara Shourt Hendley, Barbara Horn, Anneke Jessup, Joshua and family, the Martin family, M. Sathyan, G. Teresa Sathyan, Alexandra Schoenberger, Paco Vang, Sang Vang, Anantharamakumar, Susila, and Venu, Bob Collier
Departed
Ted Martin, James Robinson Jr, Jean Eastman
Ongoing prayers
Nancy Arguedas, Barbara Bain, Robert Babbitt, Lois Becker, Connie Donnelly, DF, Linda Evans, Richard Evans, Paul Jessup, Carol Adele-Jewett, Young Ja-lee, Robert Lesch, Niki Matt, Jack McMillan, Matt, Marilyn Nelson, Joanna Page, Kathy Peluso, Gage Pelletier, Steven Rea, Dora and John Rettger, Irene Sahyun, Callie Jo Slattery, Lydia Sobiech, Ursula Warth, Amanda Webb, Jerry Wohnoutka
Thanksgivings
For the graduation of Linda Brandt from General Seminary and Mary Beth Farrell from Luther Seminary. May their ministries be a blessing and service as they share the love of Christ for all persons.
From the Book of Common Prayer. for those to be Ordained,
Almighty God, the giver of all good gifts, who of thy divine providence hast appointed various orders in thy Church: Give thy grace, we humbly beseech thee, to all who are called to any office and ministry for thy people; and so fill them with the truth of thy doctrine and clothe them with holiness of life, that they may faithfully serve before thee, to the glory of thy great Name and for the benefit of thy holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Prayer requests may be made by email here or by completing the online form here.
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519 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Phone Number:
(612) 870-7800
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