Beloved,
Words cannot express how wonderful it was to be together last Sunday to pray and sing and receive communion and chat over some excellent snacks and coffee. What a glorious day in the life of this Cathedral. So many new faces and so many familiar faces gathered in such joy. At times it took my breath away.
For sure, we have a few things to work out with the livestreaming and I have every confidence that we will work them out.
For right now, though, I am holding tightly to that deep sense of peace, of joy, and of "rightness" about our gathering together in the name of Jesus Christ. I am grateful beyond measure for everyone who got us here.
In the love of Christ,
Greta+
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Cathedral Church of St. Paul News & Events |
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Sunday, August 1 at 10:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist
In person at the Cathedral, and live-streamed via YouTube.
To join us online, use the link here.
View or download the order of worship here.
Looking ahead, all summer Sunday services will be at 10:00 a.m. and offered in person or live streamed:
Sunday, August 1, Holy Eucharist
Sunday, August 8, Morning Prayer
Sunday, August 15, Morning Prayer
Sunday, August 22, Holy Eucharist
Sunday, August 29, Holy Eucharist
Other Regular Services
Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. on Zoom. |
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Calling All Lay Liturgical Ministers! |
Are you interested in expanding or continuing your involvement in our Sunday worship? We will hold a gathering for all new and existing Lay Liturgical Ministers at St. Paul's - Vergers, Eucharistic and Chalice Ministers, Ushers, Crucifers, and Readers on Saturday, August 28 from 9 - 11 a.m. at the Cathedral.
Whether you are a seasoned volunteer with expertise to share, a relative newcomer who could use a refresher, or just a curious member of the parish, please join us! Those who are called to a particular role or who just want to learn more - all are welcome to come along and explore the many ways laypeople participate in the Holy Eucharist.
In order to be sure we have enough instructors, please let us know if you'll be there by emailing the Cathedral office at admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org. Thanks! |
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Cathedral Arts Presents: Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Songs of Today
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Join us at the Cathedral on Wednesday, August 25 at 11:00 a.m. for a free live, in-person performance featuring two exceptional soloists and the FLUX Quartet as part of the annual Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival.
This recital's two exceptional soloists, Bella Hristova on violin and Clancy Newman on cello, will perform new works for their instruments. FLUX Quartet will perform Canadian composer R. Murray Shafer's Rosalind Quartet.
About the artists:
Internationally acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova is known for her passionate and powerful performances, beautiful sound, and compelling command of her instrument. Her numerous prizes include a 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant, First Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and First Prize in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.
A committed proponent of new music, she has commissioned composers Joan Tower and Nokuthula Ngwenyama to write unaccompanied violin pieces which she premiered and is performing in recitals throughout the United States and abroad.
Cellist Clancy Newman, first prize winner of the prestigious Naumburg International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has had the unusual career of a performer/composer. He received his first significant public recognition at the age of twelve, when he won a Gold Medal at the Dandenong Youth Festival in Australia, competing against people twice his age. Since then, he has performed as soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. He can often be heard on NPR’s Performance Today and has been featured on A&E and PBS. A sought-after chamber musician, he is a member of the Clarosa piano quartet and a former member of Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center and Musicians from Marlboro. Clancy is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University, receiving a M.M. from Juilliard and a B.A. in English from Columbia.
The FLUX Quartet, "one of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles around" (San Francisco Chronicle), has performed to rave reviews in venues worldwide, including the Tate Modern with BBC Radio3, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center, Mount Tremper Arts, EMPAC, Walker Art Center, Carnegie's Zankel Hall, as well as international festivals in Australia, Europe and Asia. It has also premiered new works on numerous experimental incubators, including Roulette, The Music Gallery, and Mount Tremper Arts. FLUX’s radio appearances include NPR’s All Things Considered, WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck, and WFMU’s Stochastic Hit Parade.
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The Installation of Dean and Rector Greta Getlein |
Mark your calendars: On Saturday, October 23 at 11:00 a.m. you are invited to join the Cathedral Church of St. Paul as we celebrate new life and ministry with the installation of the Very Reverend Greta Getlein as our Dean and Rector. This festive service does not occur often and is an opportunity for us to celebrate the gift of Greta's leadership and guidance. |
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This Sunday is the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. Click here for the latest edition of The Sunday Paper, a weekly publication for children that includes Scriptural images, and stories that relate the Gospel to the Old Testament, the life of the church, and their own lives. |
The Sunday Paper [Junior], to which The Cathedral Church of St. Paul has a paid subscription, is posted here with permission of the author/illustrator, Gretchen Wolff Pritchard. © Gretchen Wolff Pritchard, The Sunday Paper, 19 Colony Road, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, www.the-sunday-paper.com. All rights reserved. This is copyright material and should not be further forwarded or distributed.
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Weekly Silent Witness and Prayerful Vigil in Response to Racism |
The Cathedral's weekly Silent Witness and Prayerful Vigil continues this Sunday, August 1, at 1:00 p.m., in response to racism in our nation, state, and community.
In the event of really bad weather, we will send out a notification by Facebook (please use your own discretion). Face masks are optional if you are fully vaccinated. Please, if you can, bring a non-perishable food item - a volunteer will deliver all the donations gathered at the vigil to the Food Shelf. If you have a sign you would like to hold, bring it! This event is open to the community.
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For Our Prayers This Week |
We pray for blessings and joy for those who celebrate birthdays this week: Lillian Robinson.
We pray for blessings and joy for Penny and Keith Pillsbury, who celebrate their wedding anniversary this week.
Let us name before God those for whom we offer our prayers: Andrew Rhiannon; Kit Roberts; Ella Baskett; Dorothea and Naa Aku Viens; Mary Magot; Michael Hill; Jean Erno; Bill Metcalfe; Chuck; Ted Braun; Jackie; Michael Fernandez; Lillian Robinson; Stewart McHenry; Emily Harwood; Peter Adams; Sarah Urang; Gene Grinnell; Elizabeth Webster; Danielle O'Hallisey; David, Carol and Samantha Simmons; Pat Barra, Rick Watts; Margot (Lisa Schnell's sister); David Glendinning; Debbie Altemus; Vaughn Altemus; Marion Montross; Naomi Hodgett; Helen McGrath; and Mary Carter. For all those suffering from COVID-19 in our country or around the world, and especially those from our own faith family who have loved ones at risk or are themselves at risk. For those who have died from COVID-19 and for the grief of those who loved them.
We pray for those who are in the discernment process: Susan McMillan; Kenzo An; and for our seminarian, Bram Kranichfeld.
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"Go forth and set the world on fire"
--St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Lessons for August 1, The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost |
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Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Chinese Graduate Student Seeks Housing |
From parishioner Connie Quinby:
A female Chinese student, who is a recent graduate from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and is fluent in English, is seeking a room for rent in the Burlington area while she completes a year of graduate study at the University of Vermont.
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Free Webinar on PFAS Disposal and Remediation Offered |
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of over 5,000 man-made chemicals, are everywhere: in the air, soil, and water, and in our bodies, in fish and meat, as well as many products in your grocery store. They've been added to innumerable building, consumer, and personal products. PFOA is no longer produced, but these compounds never really break down in groundwater or soil.
PFAS have toxic effects at very low concentrations, and can cause some types of cancer, learning and development problems, and target the immune system.
The panel will discuss dangerous disposal methods as well as new technologies to remove these “forever chemicals” from our midst.
August 9th on Zoom at 7:30 p.m. ET
Speakers: Dr. Patricia Hynes, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice; Dr. David Bond, Bennington College; Dr. Appala Raju Badireddy, University of Vermont.
Sponsors: Vermont Military Poisons/PFAS Coalition, WILPF Burlington, and the Earth Democracy Committee.
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Rock Point Open Charity Golf Tournament October 2 |
We invite you to participate in a new charity golf t Rock Point Open:
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Neshobe Golf Course, Brandon, VT
All profits from this event will benefit the youth of Rock Point School and Rock Point Commons, extended ministries within the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.
Or register for play, as a sponsor, or to provide a raffle prize by contacting tournament organizer Stanton Eddy at 802-238-3073 or stantonseddy@gmail.com.
Rock Point School saves students' lives by providing a close-knit, supportive educational community, where high schoolers are encouraged to become their very best selves. As they develop skills and confidence, students come to believe in their ability to create joyful, meaningful lives for themselves.
Rock Point Commons supports Vermont youth by hosting On Top, Burlington High School's alternative education program, and by partnering with the Burlington YMCA and Outright Vermont's "Gender Creative Kids," focusing on the health and well-being of Vermont youth and their families.
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This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith and the Church |
This Band of Sisterhood, a candid conversation with the first five Black female diocesan bishops in the Episcopal Church, is now available for purchase online and in bookstores. In addition to Bishop Shannon, the book includes stories and reflections from Bishops Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows of Indianapolis, Carlye J. Hughes of Newark, Kimberly Lucas of Colorado and Phoebe A. Roaf of West Tennessee.
"They talk about healing the church and community and having fierce conversations," editor Westina Matthews said in a Q&A with Episcopal News Service. "Bishop Shannon’s brother was arrested in the middle of all of this. He was harassed and arrested during a routine traffic stop because he was driving while Black. I wondered if we should include it in the book and she said yes, tell it, it happened."
To supplement this work, there will be a study guide published, which our own Dean Greta Getlein has helped to write. We will let you know when it becomes available.
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Submission Deadline for St. Paul's eNews |
This weekly e-newsletter is circulated on Fridays. Please have your pieces submitted to Jennifer Sumner at admin@stpaulscathedralvt.org by noon on Wednesday. Thank you. |
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Contacts:
The Right Rev. Shannon MacVean-Brown, Bishop of Vermont
The Very Rev. Greta Getlein, Dean and Rector
The Ven. J. Stannard Baker, Cathedral Deacon and Diocesan Archdeacon
Mark A. DeW. Howe, Canon Precentor and Director of Music
Jennifer C. Sumner, Office Administrator
Barbara F. Comeau, Financial Administrator
Katie Gonyaw, Children's Formation Coordinator
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