News from the Congregation November 27, 2019
Our Heart is Restless Until it Rests in You; St. Martin’s Chapel Reopens, Thanksgiving Day Eucharist, Christianity in the Vineyard Wine Tasting, "Saturday Church" Film Screening Sunday Programs (10 am Advent Bible Study, 10:00 am Pathfinders Sunday School), Passes for Christmas Eve Service, Give Online
From Canon Lee
"The Love of Learning and The Desire for God" is the memorable title of one of my favorite books.
The book itself is an important scholarly examination of monastic culture by the French Benedictine monk, Jean LeClercq. But more than for its contents, I love the book for its title. Especially that striking phrase: "desire for God."
It was one of Christianity's great early thinkers who connected God and the ultimate satisfaction of our seemingly unquenchable desires:
tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet, quia fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te.
Or, as Sarah Ruden translates these famous words of Augustine: "In yourself you rouse us, giving us delight in glorifying you, because you made us with yourself as our goal, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
This Sunday at 11 AM, I hope to show one way we might spark, deep within ourselves, such a powerful desire for God that we might thereby bring some peace to our restless hearts.
The Rev. Canon Steven Lee
Canon Pastor and Vicar
ST. MARTIN'S CHAPEL REOPENS
The following services will be in St. Martin's Chapel this week:
Thanksgiving Day
11:00 AM - Holy Eucharist
Sunday, December 1
8:00 AM - Holy Eucharist
Next week, all weekday services:
Monday through Friday
8:00 AM - Morning Prayer
(with the exception of December 5th when it will be in St. Columba)
Monday through Saturday
12:15 PM - Holy Eucharist
Monday through Friday
5:00 PM - Evening Prayer
CHRISTMAS
AT THE CATHEDRAL
4:00 PM Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols
The very large puppets that for many years have been part of Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve suffered smoke damage in the Palm Sunday fire. New puppets are being constructed but will not be ready for this year. The service, a favorite of families with small children, will otherwise be the same as usual. We look forward to Christmas 2020 and the arrival of our new Christmas puppets.
10:30 PM Christmas Eve Festal Eucharist
Passes for Reserved Cathedral Congregation Seating
LINK
11:00 AM Christmas Day Choral Eucharist
CONNECT
Cathedral Young Adults
Christianity in the Vineyard Wine Tasting
Saturday, December 7, 2019
2:30 pm - 4:00 pmLe Grande Triage1657 1st Ave
New York, NY 10028
RSVP in Realm
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Cathedral LGBTQ+ Community
"Saturday Church" Film Screening
Sunday, December 8 at 2:00 PM
Cathedral House Conference Room
Featuring an introduction and Q&A session afterwards with the Rev. Bo Reynolds, Associate School Chaplain, The Church of St. Luke in the Fields. Fr. Reynolds will discuss the Art and Acceptance program at St. Luke’s, upon which the film is based.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/movies/saturday-church-review.html
EXPLORE
Advent Bible Study with Cathedral Clergy
The Gospel of Matthew
10:00 AM
Cathedral Nave
December 1: Dean Daniel
December 8: Sub Dean Malloy
December 15: Canon Lee
December 22: Canon Welch
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Pathfinders: A Program of Spiritual Exploration for Children at the Cathedral
This Sunday, all of our classes will be Thanksgiving Vacation! See you next Sunday, December 8!
For more information and to register, please contact Donna Devlin, Director of Christian Education.
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Radical Love Live
Sunday, January 26, 2020
7:00 PM
Cathedral Nave
GIVE
STEP 1: Pledge Online to the 2020 Campaign
http://www.saintsaviour.org/giving
STEP 2: Four ways to Fulfill Your Pledge
Method 1 - Give through Realm (preferred)
Method 2 - Give through Paypal
Method 3 - Give by check
Method 4 - Give with giving envelope
Contact pastoralcare@stjohndivine.org for help.
SERVE
World AIDS Day Commemoration
Sunday, December 1 at 1:00 PM
Cathedral Nave
Join the Cathedral Congregation this Sunday, December 1 for a World AIDS Day commemoration. We will be displaying two beautiful blocks of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Cathedral, specifically one created by Donna Karan New York "In Love We Trust" from 1994. This block also features a Perry Ellis tribute panel by Tommy Hilfiger. The second block features the wonderful Keith Haring panel, among others.
Choreographer Jody Sperling and her all-women company Time Lapse Dance presents excerpts from “Wind Rose”, along with a duet created in collaboration with cellist Scott Johnson for the occasion of World AIDS Day. The elegiac work explores themes of grief, isolation, and transcendence.
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Cathedral LGBTQ+ Community
Invites You to a Holiday Card Writing Party
For Clients of SAGE USA and The Ali Forney Center
Tuesday, December 10
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cathedral House Conference Room
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Raising My Voice: A Harlem Re-Entry Initiative
Pilot Partnership with the Cathedral Congregation,
the J.C. Flowers Foundation, and Circles of Support
Begins January 2020
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Global Mission:
Presentation on the Current Missionary Context in Cuba
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:00 PM
Cathedral House Conference Room
From Marsha and Tim
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Whether you are traveling or staying home, cooking the meal or going to a friend or relative for your version of the traditional feast, we wish you a joyful holiday. If you are spending Thanksgiving alone, working on school work or just chilling, we hope you find some joy in that too. Solitude does not have to be lonely.
For us Christians, the day after tomorrow is also thanks giving day, as is the day after that. We have so much to be thankful for as the Cathedral Congregation: wonderful, complicated people from all walks of life, all ages and backgrounds worshipping together and led by clergy who are devoted to their call; great preaching; a music department that is superb; and above all opportunities for us lay folks to serve God in so many ways. We are growing and our ministries are growing with us. As we turn now to Advent, that season of expectation (and a little madness) let us look forward to what will be asked of us. Let us look for new ways to express the love that has been lavished on us by our God.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Marsha and Tim
NOVEMBER 27, 2019