From the Dean & Rector

Welcome Music Director Candidate Peter Stoltzfus Berton

Join us this Sunday as we welcome Peter Stoltzfus Berton, a candidate for the position of Director of Music and Cathedral Arts.

Peter is the Founding Executive Director of the Choir School of Newport County, and Chapel Organist of St. George’s School, Middletown, Rhode Island. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music and the Yale University School of Music. Integral to his training was serving as Assistant Organist at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven, and Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (1993-1995). Prior to his appointment in Newport in June 2014, he developed intergenerational choirs at St. John's Church, West Hartford CT, All Saints Church, Worcester MA, and Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn Heights, NY.

Cathedral Arts Presents Brahms and Beethoven: Romani and Scottish Songs

Cathedral Arts is proud to present a performance by Counterpoint Chorus. For their 2024 Spring program, three of Vermont’s finest classical instrumentalists join the singers of Counterpoint for this fascinating crossing of folk traditions and classical music: Johannes Brahms’s passionate Zigeunerlieder, a collection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s settings of Scottish folksongs, and folksong settings by Béla Bartók, plus piano trio movements by Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.

Sunday, April 28, 3:00 p.m. Tickets for this performance may be purchased at 7 Days Ticketing.

No Adult Forum This Week

There is no Adult Forum this week. In this "off" week, please consider the way you are formed by Christ's care for you, the cloud of witnesses that supports you, and the world about you. Many blessings. 

Fill Baskets for Feeding Chittenden

Did you know that Feeding Chittenden has a Community Kitchen Academy that offers a 9-week job training program for individuals to prepare them for work in the hospitality industry? In this program, they are able to rescue and use produce, meat, and other foods that would be otherwise lost to the landfill. Prepared meals are packaged and sent out into the community by way of the soup kitchen and food shelf. 

We can help care for our neighbors by keeping Feeding Chittenden supplied in food donations. They can use many shelf stable items including: canned proteins, canned fruits, cereals and oatmeal, feminine hygiene products.

Remember, the individuals served at Feeding Chittenden look just like you and me, only they are hungry.

Please bring any offerings you can to church and deposit them in the baskets at the front door. And it's ok if the baskets are full to overflowing!

Support the St. Paul's COTS Walk Team

Please help St Paul’s Cathedral support the mission of the Committee for Temporary Shelter (COTS) to end homelessness by joining us or making a donation to our church’s COTS Walk Team.

This year the COTS Walk is on Sunday, May 5 at 2 p.m. The walk is a 3.5-mile trek (a shorter 1-mile route is available) around downtown Burlington that starts from Battery Park and follows the path a person experiencing homelessness might travel to connect with COTS shelter and services. We are participating to support Vermont's largest provider of services for community members who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or marginally housed.

You are invited to participate by walking with us or donating to our team's fundraising effort. The more people that join, the greater our collective impact will be. To donate, you can write a check made out to COTS, give cash, or visit the St. Paul’s Cathedral team page at this link right now. https://secure2.convio.net/tcots/site/TR/Walk/General?px=1017710&pg=personal&fr_id=1110. To join as a walker, please register using the same link.

The process is fast, easy, and secure. If you would prefer, you can send your contribution to the address listed below.

COTS

PO Box 1616

Burlington, VT 05402

Make all checks payable to COTS.

Feel free to share this fundraiser with any friends you think might be interested in supporting this important cause.

Cathedral Arts Presents Spring Reverie

The Champlain Consort performs Renaissance and Elizabethan music on period instruments. The members of the Consort perform on recorders, sackbuts (Renaissance trombones), cornetto, viola da gamba, capped reeds, and percussion, combining different types of instruments in "broken consort" tradition to recreate the distinctive sound of Medieval and Renaissance music.

​With Spring Reverie, the Champlain Consort has selected music from Medieval and Renaissance times that celebrates spring and birds. Although primarily an instrumental group, they will sing as well as play instruments for this joyous occasion.

​Tuesday, April 30 at noon. This is a free concert. Donations to Cathedral Arts are always gratefully accepted.

Justice Speaks: Milk With Dignity

After thousands of phone calls, letters from individuals, NGOs and stakeholder actions, Hannaford still refuses to join the Milk with Dignity Program. 

Neither Hannaford nor corporate owner Ahold Delhaize has engaged with Migrant Justice in any meaningful way since their invitation five years ago to join Milk with Dignity Program. While Hannaford has created initiatives that mimic aspects of the Program, there is no accountability in these initiatives, and this has actually caused more trouble for farmworkers after contact with them. Please visit https://migrantjustice.net

Hannaford is making profits from the labor of farmworkers working on dairy farms supplying Hannaford-brand milk. Many experience labor and living conditions that are abysmal, demeaning and in violation of basic human rights. Conditions that would be addressed by the Milk with Dignity Program include stolen wages, no pay stubs, long work days without break for lunch, lack of privacy and space, decrepit housing, abuse by farm personnel, no time off for injury or illness, and no redress of grievances. 

Milk With Dignity reminds us of the differential in power and status between corporations and undocumented migrant workers. Let’s remember that Jesus was occasionally confrontative with the powerful in his day. 

As people of faith in a loving God, we expect workers in Hannaford’s food chain to be treated with dignity and respect. When we see that Hannaford turns a deaf ear and a blind eye to suffering among workers in their food chain, we must stand with the workers in solidarity for change. And Milk with Dignity has meant real and positive change for farmworkers and for farm owners. 

Sylvia Knight

Recognition for Graduates

God has graced us with outstanding young people in our midst who have the potential to be transformative agents in the life of our church, community, and world.

On Sunday, May 19 we would like to recognize the achievements of our high school and college graduates. You can help us celebrate these young people in two ways: First, pray for the graduates and their families as they navigate this time of transition. Second, if you are a graduate or the family member of one, send us their name so that we can be sure to celebrate them.

Names can be sent to the Cathedral office: Admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org.

Thank you!

Phishing Scam Alert

Beware of emails from clergy or staff impersonators asking for money or gift cards. Church communities are sometimes targets of these scams, in which someone posing as a clergy person or member of staff sends an email request for cash or gift card donations. The return email address is typically similar to but definitely not part of our network (ending in @stpaulscathedralvt.org).

We will never ask for a cash or gift card donation via email! If you do receive these types of requests, please report them to your email service provider. If you aren't sure, feel free to check with the Cathedral office by phone (802-864-0471). 

Cathedral Square Portraits Exhibition

An exhibit of portrait photographs by Paul Van De Graaf and Gerry Davis will be on display in the Nave of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, during the months of April and May 2024. Cathedral Square was created in 1977 as a mission of the church and an independent nonprofit corporation to develop Cathedral Square Senior Living, the nine-story, solar-panel-topped building just east of the Cathedral, with 108 apartments for older adults. The project to photograph residents at Cathedral Square Senior Living was undertaken as a service to these subjects and to honor the missions of Cathedral Square and the Cathedral.  

Twenty-one residents, including one couple and one staff member, volunteered to participate. Each subject was photographed in color with a modern Sony digital mirrorless camera and in black and white using a Zone VI 4”x5” large format film camera. Each subject received a set of color and B&W prints to share with family and friends in time for the holidays.

This project was helped greatly by the support of Kim Aldous at Cathedral Square, Dean Greta Getlein, and the Cathedral Arts Committee. These photographers have teamed together previously on several projects, are good friends, and enjoy their photography and their work together.

Coming up at St. Paul's

• Sunday, April 28: Holy Eucharist, 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Second Candidate for Music Director visiting. Church School, 10 a.m.; no Adult Forum. Cathedral Arts Presents Counterpoint in Concert, 3:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, April 30: Cathedral Arts Presents Champlain Consort's Spring Reverie, 12:00.
• Sunday, May 5: Holy Eucharist, 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Third Candidate for Music Director visiting. Church School and Adult Forum, 10 a.m.
• Sunday, May 12: Holy Eucharist, 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Last Sunday for Adult Forum and Church School until September.
• Friday, May 17: Young Adults Potluck Picnic, 5 - 7 p.m.
• Sunday, May 19: The Day of Pentecost Holy Eucharist, 10:00 a.m. Recognition for Graduates, followed by festive coffee hour. Single Sunday worship service schedule begins.
• Tuesday, May 21: Cathedral Arts Presents Lynette Combs, Organist, 12 noon.
• Friday, May 24: Cathedral Arts Presents Transcontinental Piano Duo Elaine Greenfield and Janice Meyer Thompson, 7:00 p.m.
• Saturday, May 25: Trinity Eve Holy Eucharist, 5:00 p.m.
• Sunday, May 26: No services, Marathon Sunday.
• Sunday, June 2: Holy Eucharist, 10:00 a.m., Cathedral Arts Presents Vermont Choral Union, 4:00 p.m.