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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, May 16th.
Per our Covid Protocols, we will be having limited In-Person worship this coming Sunday, with the limited number of 100 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!
Sunday, May 23rd will be determined based on the positivity numbers reported Saturday, May 15th. Please watch your email and the in-person web page for updated information.
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A time for quiet, a time for prayer.
Tuesdays — 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Thursdays— 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Registration is not necessary for pilgrimages, and we will limit the number in the nave to 10 people, appropriately distanced. Please enter through the main doors facing Loring Park.
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The Feast of the Ascension
Thursday, May 13 @ 7:30 pm
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, also called Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday, commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into heaven.
Join us for a Choral Eucharist on this special feast day. More information on in-person worship and registration is available here.
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Saint Mark's Music Series Spring Offerings
Mark your calendars! Livestreams can be found here.
Music for Springtime, Saturday May 15 @ 7.30pm.
This concert features Madrigals and Part-Songs sung by our Section Leaders, along with a performance of a song cycle by Grieg performed by Kristi Bergland.
The Organ: French Music in the 20th Century, Thursday May 20 @ 7.30pm.
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Round Table Online
A 'STUDY' series that includes formation, prayer, and connections.
Creation Care
For those who have been missing our Wednesday Zoom gatherings, have no fear! We have returned with a five-week series and began our spring series April 14th . Our focus has been on Creation Care.
Our last session this Wednesday, 5.12, will focus on our own St. Mark's creation care work. Feel free to join even if you were not able to be with us previous nights.
The program will begin at 6:30 each of the Wednesdays with fellowship beginning at 6:00 pm.
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Godly Play & the Mustard Seed
Sometimes our lives are shaped in big ways by little things: routines, habits, or bits of insight. Godly Play is full of stories. Some we’ve enjoyed lately are little. The parables of the mustard seed and of the leaven are told in just one or two sentences in the gospels, yet their implications and potential are big enough that they’ve been preserved and given to us. I wonder what little things in lives, individually or communally, might become something big and wonderful.
For more information about Godly Play or our Zoom sessions, contact Monica Kruger, Godly Play Coordinator.
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Come & See!
The Cathedral Book Shop is open for appointments and orders by phone.
Check out the newest recommendation from Dean Paul, The Church Cracked Open, by Stephanie Spellers, who serves as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Canon for Evangelism and Reconciliation.
Call the Book Shop at 612-400-1210 or email us here.
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Study:
Resources to
Deepen Your Faith
Gospel Based Discipleship
Mondays at 12:15 pm
Join Saint Mark's clergy and explore the Gospel for the upcoming Sunday using Gospel Based Discipleship. Register here to receive your Zoom link, you will only need to register once, the link will work every week.
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Saint Mark's is rolling out our new ministry tool Realm.
Realm is an online ministry tool, a database designed for real time connection. If you consider yourself a part of our church community, then you will really appreciate it! It helps our church connect with you and you connect with us! Realm allows you to manage your personal information and who is allowed to see it, control your giving, and keep in touch with the groups that you are a part of. If you have not received your official invitation, and would like one, reach out to realm@ourcathedral.org!
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Small Group Facilitators Needed
The Downtown Coalition for Grief Support, of which St. Mark’s is a partner organization, hosts grief support groups on Saturday mornings (currently on Zoom) and is in need of more small group facilitators. Hove you lost a loved one to death? Do you know what it’s like to feel that fresh sting of grief? If you have, and are willing to help facilitate conversation for others as they struggle with the loss of a loved one, please let us know.
Training is provided by a grief counselor or hospice worker in the art of giving people encouragement to share about their own experience, making sure everyone has a safe space to be heard, etc. Facilitators would commit to serving either spouse/partner loss group, the family/friend group, or the child loss group and the time commitment is flexible. For more information about this opportunity to be trained and serve, please contact Linda Schelin here.
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Who Are You?
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
Gerald Ash, Eric Baumgart, Anneke Jessup, Jim Lacher, Jack McMillan, Joshua and family, Steven Rea, David Schneider and family, Linda Schelin, Nancy Simons, Lydia Sobiech, Martin Song, Paco Vang, Ursula Warth.
Departed
Ongoing prayers
Nancy Arguedas, Robert Babbitt, Lois Becker, Bob Collier, Keith Davis, Connie Donnelly, Linda Evans, Richard Evans, Paul Jessup, Carol Adele-Jewett, Young Ja-lee, Robert Lesch, Niki Matt, Ann and Warren Maas, Matt, Marilyn and Bill Nelson, Joanna Page, Kathy Peluso, Gage Pelletier, Dora and John Rettger, Irene Sahyun, Callie Jo Slattery, Amara Strande and family, Malcolm Twite, Jerry Wohnoutka,
Thanksgivings
For our Lionheart Scholars graduating from Minneapolis College and for all graduates of high schools and colleges as they begin new journeys.
From the Book of Common Prayer, For Sound Government p.821
O Lord our Governor, bless the leaders of our land, that we may be a people at peace among ourselves and a blessing to other nations of the earth. Lord, keep this nation under your care.
To the President and members of the Cabinet, to Governors of States, Mayors of Cities, and to all in administrative authority, grant wisdom and grace in the exercise of their duties. Give grace to your servants, O Lord.
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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