Our Cathedral staff and clergy continue serving from their virtual offices. Please note our physical offices located at 45 Church Street are closed as we continue to face the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
All scheduled meetings are being held via Zoom video conference.
If you have any questions, please contact the office at office@cccathedral.org.
Please note all in -person worship and events are postponed until further notice.
For pastoral conversations, please do not hesitate to contact Canon Jorge, Dean Lina or Deacon Bonnie.
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Young Adult Task Force
Presentation at our ECCT Annual Convention
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The 2019 ECCT Annual Convention commissioned a Task Force on Evangelism of and by Young Adults (the Young Adult Task Force) to “… identify successful strategies employed within ECCT and in the wider church, which:
(1) provide inspiring worship, community building and engagement in social justice by and for the full diversity of young adults;
(2) form young adults as disciples and apostles;
(3) engage young adults in ministry and leadership; and
(4) use the gifts of young adults to further God’s mission through expanding campus ministries across ECCT, expanding young adult networks across ECCT, and other means.”
We succeeded in forming a Task Force of 31 members, mostly comprised of young adults (see attached list), and the membership was approved by Mission Council in December 2019. The Task Force convened in January 2020, formed a number of task groups, and began work in earnest. Our work was complicated by two principal factors. One, given the small number of young adults in ECCT, our group is weighted toward clergy, seminarians, and students engaged in campus ministry. We quickly came to understand that engaging only people we knew in ECCT, left us somewhat disconnected from young adults who are: less closely engaged with church; those who are not in college; and, given the demographics of ECCT, young adults of color. Two, with the arrival of the pandemic and the necessary preoccupation of our clergy and lay leaders with the immediate needs of their church communities, we needed to narrow our focus on what was achievable. This became even truer with the arrival of the second pandemic, a new awareness of systemic racism in our communities.
We reached out to the Young Adult Task Force in the Diocese of Massachusetts, which was formed two years ago. It was facing similar challenges and, in response, set more limited goals. However, we remain committed to the larger goals articulated in the 2019 Convention resolution, so we realized we needed to restructure our effort, to embrace narrower goals during this time, and also to develop the resources to complete the larger agenda set by Convention. Accordingly, we formed a smaller executive team that focused on what we have come to believe is the foundation on which our work needs to be built – an understanding of the breadth and depth of the perspectives, desires and needs of the broad diversity of young adults in our midst, and the ways in which they have found the church responsive to or obstructive of their spiritual journeys.
Our first project has been to produce a video for Convention which begins to raise awareness of the diversity of young adult perspectives, with the Rev. Helena Martin securing funds from the Episcopal Evangelism Society for production costs. It should be noted that, in this case, all those interviewed are committed Episcopalians. We believe this is a good start but, nonetheless, we also believe that it is only through a deeper understanding of the diversity of young adult voices that we can then frame practical proposals for how the church needs to change in order to include young adults in our common life. Given the paucity of young adults in ECCT at present, especially those not in the small group of those most committed to the church, we now appreciate that it will take a greater effort to access and learn from these groups of less well-connected young adults than we originally anticipated.
We also understand that we must gather the best information available on successful strategies which individual communities and dioceses are employing to engage young adults in their common life, and that this also will require greater effort than anticipated, especially as our committed Task Force members continue to navigate the demands of their own parish and community lives in these times. Accordingly, we hope to continue our work for at least one additional year with a new project of gathering information across ECCT and other dioceses on successful strategies for engaging and empowering young adults in the life of the church. This project is outlined in fuller detail in our Resolution to Continue and Complete the Work of the ECCT Young Adult Task Force to the upcoming 236th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.
We on the YATF are enthusiastic about the work that lies ahead for our task force and for ECCT as we embrace an emerging church that can include the profound gifts and capacities of young adults.
Submitted by the Co-Facilitators of the Young Adult Task Force
The Rev. John Kennedy
The Rev. Helena Martin
Whitney Batson
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Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness
Presiding Bishop and National Cathedral Host Live-streamed Prayers on Nov. 1
[October 15, 2020] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will lead a live-streamed prayer service from Washington National Cathedral, Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness, on All Saints Sunday, November 1, at 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST. In the midst of pandemic, racial reckoning, and a historic election, the live-streamed service will gather Americans for prayer, song, lament, hope, and a call to love God and neighbor.
A live prayer hotline in English and Spanish will be open during the service, staffed by Episcopal clergy and chaplains, in partnership with Virginia Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary. The hotline will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST from November 1 to November 5.
To receive a reminder about this service, text HOLDING to 51555 (standard messaging and data rates apply)
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Order your Cathedral Yard Sign Today!
Our signs are already in some homes in Hartford and West Hartford!
Since you are not able to visit 45 Church Street, our Cathedral could visit you in some ways! We have made a replica of our fence sign and are making it available to those who would like to share God’s love with your neighborhood.
The sign, portraying our Presiding Bishop and noting our Cathedral ‘s website shares a well-known message from Bishop Curry “ Love is the Way” . In a time when we are facing two pandemics, Covid-19 and Racism, love is the only way forward.
Would you like a sign? Canon Jorge and I are ready to drop it off, place it in your front yard and wave hello to you and yours! Please email me at lina.howell@cccathedral.org or call at 860-305-7604. We are asking for a good will donation of $ 17.00 per sign to cover its cost. Please mail your checks payable to Christ Church Cathedral or donate online visiting our website at www.cccathedral.org
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Our musicians have been hard at work creating virtual music for our Sunday worship services. Singing and playing together on our music videos, it almost feels like we are back in the Cathedral building!
Please, considering wearing headphones while listening to our CCC music offerings, particularly those involving singers and guest musicians. Their remarkable efforts are much better experienced this way. Thank you!
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CLERGY TEAM
We pray you are doing well and safe. Each one of you continue to be in our thoughts and prayers.
A member of the team will always be available for pastoral conversations and or emergencies. Do not hesitate to contact us.
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CATHEDRAL OFFICE
All SAINTS DAY PRAYER
It is our tradition to invite our Cathedral members to share the names of their loved ones who have passed in previous years for us to lift them up in prayers on All Saints Sunday. Please email your names to the Administrative Assistant to the Dean, Kathy Frisoli, at office@cccathedral.org
Additionally, this year, our Bishops have invited all members of ECCT to share the names of those who have passed due to Covid-19. Please share the names of those who have not survived Covid-19 by emailing us at allsaints@cccathedral.org
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SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday, October 25th
The Twenty First Sunday After Pentecost
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10:00 a.m. Morning Prayer - Virtual Sunday
Officiant
Nancy Jacobs
Meditation
The Rev. Dana Campbell
Representing God's people
Celeste Scott
Lector
Connie Bain
Minister of Ceremony
The Rev. Canon Jorge Pallares, Canon for Congregational Life
Topic: Cathedral Virtual Sunday Worship
Time: 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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11:15 a.m. Morning Prayer in Spanish- Servicio Virtual de la Catedral
Officiant
Patricia Pezzat
Sermon
The Rev. Canon Jorge Pallares, Canon for Congregational Life
Representing God's people
Pedro Cirilo
Lector
Evelyn Diaz
Minister of Ceremony
The Very Rev. Miguelina Howell, Cathedral Dean
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PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEKS SERVICES |
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Church by the Pond In Person Gathering
- Saturday, October 24th - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Officiant: Rev. Taylor Albright
Join us for next weeks virtual offerings via zoom:
- Sunday, October 25th - 10:00 am - Sunday Morning Prayer English
- Sunday, October 25th - 11:15 am - Sunday Morning Prayer Spanish
- Tuesday, October 27th - 6:30 p.m. - Happy Hour in Spanish
- Thursday, October 29th - 6:00 p.m.- Happy Hour in English
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The CCC Gospel Choir needs YOU!
We'd like to start up a gospel choir at CCC and all are welcome.
If you would like to take part, please email directorofmusic@cccathedral.org. Also, if you have a favorite tune you'd like the CCC Gospel Choir to sing, send an email! We will make a great noise when we all are together for worship again, and, if technology allows, we hope to present something virtually sometime in May.
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CHURCH BY THE POND
By Nancy Jacobs, Lay Coordinator
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October 17, 2020
We were happy to welcome a Rev. Dee Littlepage of Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford to Church By The Pond today. Rev. Littlepage is newly assigned to Trinity and has stepped right in to join her congregation and us in serving God's mission in Downtown Hartford.
Seventeen were present to share prayers and praise God for our blessings. Today's Gospel reading and Rev. Littlepage's meditation invited us to consider what we have that is God's and what we are willing to give to God.
We were happy to be reunited with several of our steadfast congregants from Trinity to pray together. Trinity also provided lunches and personal care items to the 38 guests we saw today.
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We thank you for your ongoing support to God's Mission. Your pledge may be send via snail mail to our Cathedral ( Cathedral at 45 Church Street Hartford, CT 06103). You may also visit our website to make your pledge or donations or simply click below.
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ÚNETE A NOSOTROS!
Let us join in fellowship each Tuesday via zoom for our Alternating Spanish Language Bible Study/Happy Hour!
Thursday 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm.
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JOIN US!
Let us join in fellowship each Thursday via zoom!
Thursday 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm.
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Christ Church Cathedral serves the entire Episcopal Church in Connecticut community for the good of the whole, and is the seat of the bishops. It is "our cathedral." Our Cathedral hosts four congregations in one worshiping community. It's not a parish, as its role is unique in the diocese (see 2015 task force report & resolution). In this its centennial year, Cathedral leaders and Centennial Committee members wish to remind all Episcopalians in CT that by virtue of their membership in a parish, they are members of our Cathedral. All are welcome at any time, and in particular, invited to these events .
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