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An online offering
from
The Wisdom Years

Starting May 27, 2021

Every Thursday, 
4 to 5:15 p.m.
(Central time) 

for 4 weeks

In his poem “Santiago,” David Whyte describes the spiritual journey as “the road seen, then not seen” – sometimes revealing the way we should take, sometimes dropping away and leaving us to walk on thin air. 

Our path, it seems, appears as we travel the journey.  Our part is to recognize the hand of God steadying us and beckoning us forward. 

In our study of “unfolding,” we will acknowledge and learn to navigate the road that urges us on at this time of our lives, though we may not always see the way ahead clearly.

How it works:

•  Each week, we will read from Nancy J. Hill’s book Unfolding, then gather in community and in small groups by Zoom to offer our own thoughts on how Hill’s essays inform our unfolding lives. We will learn from our shared wisdom and from the revelations of our own souls as we listen for the wind of the Spirit.  

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

Journey of the Soul

One of the qualities that you can develop, particularly in your older years, is a sense of great compassion for yourself. When you visit the wounds within the temple of memory, you should not blame yourself for making bad mistakes that you greatly regret. Sometimes you have grown unexpectedly through these mistakes. Frequently, in a journey of the soul, the most precious moments are the mistakes. They have brought you to a place that you would otherwise have always avoided. You should bring a compassionate mindfulness to your mistakes and wounds. Endeavor to inhabit the rhythm you were in at that time. If you visit this configuration of your soul with forgiveness in your heart, it will fall into place itself. When you forgive yourself, the inner wounds begin to heal. You come in out of the exile of hurt into the joy of inner belonging.

John O’Donohue
Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara 

May God Bless my Screwdriver

By Fletcher Lowe
From Living God’s Mission

“Blessing the farms and the fields, blessing the boats and the bait….  So in more rural times, congregations gathered as a way of asking God’s blessings. What were our rural friends asking God’s blessings on, but the means of production: farms, fields, boats, bait, for a good harvest and a good catch. The Latin word for ask is rogare, hence Rogation in our Episcopal liturgy.”

Read the essay.

Rogation Sunday was May 9. Rogation Days continue until the Day of Ascension, this year May 13. 

Want to know more about Rogation Days?

Easter in the Compost Bin

By Micha Boyett 
From Grow Christians

“This Eastertide I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to live in the relentless goodness of Easter Sunday, not only on the day of Easter, but in all the fifty days that follow. I’m in a new home this Easter, and in a new climate. Here the flowers have burst into bloom all over my yard, and I’ve been reading a book called Braiding Sweetgrass.”

(Note: Those in our recently-ended Gratefulness study will recognize Braiding Sweetgrass as a book we discussed.)

Read the essay.

The Intelligence Inside of the Aging Process

By Ron Rolheiser
From his blog.

“What can God and nature have had in mind when they designed the aging process? Why is it that just when our mental prowess, our human maturity, and our emotional freedom are at their peak, the body begins to fall apart?  Our faith, of course, because it opens us to a perspective beyond our biological lives, sheds some light on these questions, though it doesn’t always give us a language within which to grasp more reflectively what is happening to us in the aging process. Sometimes a secular perspective can be helpful and that is the case here.”

Read the essay.

“Why do you stand looking up to heaven?”

By the Rev Mike Marsh
From his blog, Interrupting the Silence

“We live in a world in which up is better than down. Singers want to be at the top of the charts, athletes want to be on top of their game, and students want to be at the top of the class. Everyone would rather have an up day than a down day. When the stock market rises we celebrate but despair when it crashes down. No one wants to be at the bottom of someone’s list. We work to climb, not to descend the career ladder. We hear and read about mountain climbers but not much is said or written about valley descenders. Recently, the three year old class at our parish school has delighted in showing me how high they can jump and, at least for a moment, defy gravity.”

Read the rest of the sermon.

Ascension Day is May 13 this year. 

The account of Christ’s ascension is told in Acts 1:6-11.

The Way of Words & Images: Creative and Spiritual Journaling

“Bring to life the words and images that come from within and around you to nurture and strengthen your spirit and well-being. Journaling is a powerful way to record, reflect on, and become a witness to your own experience, healing, and sense of self. We will play with writing reflections, stories, questions, lists, poems, letters, and dialogues. We will also access our creative expression and spirit through drawings, self-portraits, images, collages, and scribbles that unite our hands, hearts, and minds. No artistic or writing experience needed. This class is facilitated by Julia Kristeller, MEd, of the Psychology and Spirituality Institute.”

For more information.

 

 

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

Be The Change

Walk into nature in any of its forms today, and as you look and listen and receive the impression, also notice within yourself its effect on you. Is there some simple way you can return to nature its great gift to us, by planting or weeding or caring for an animal?

From Daily Good, May 4, 2021

Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming

An “On Being” interview with naturalist Michael McCarthy and Krista Tippett

“The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all,” Michael McCarthy writes. He is a naturalist and journalist with a galvanizing call — that we stop relying on the immobilizing language of statistics and take up our joy in nature as our defense of it. And he reminds us that the natural world is where we first found our metaphors and similes and it is the resting place for our psyches.”

Listen to the interview.

Coddiwomple

By Monica Mxon
From Shalem

“Several years ago, I planned a road trip with a good friend to visit her son, my godson, during spring break. However, as it turned out, we weren’t going to Idaho but to Iowa and also, as it turned out, my godson had come East and went back with us. He was the designated driver for most of the way, gamely playing 60s music, listening to our Swedish mystery on tape and laughing at my story about thinking I was heading to Idaho.

“That’s when he taught me a new word, ‘coddiwomple,’ which I loved immediately though I couldn’t quite believe it was real.”

Read the essay.

Do the Next Thing

By Fred Smith
From The Gathering

“Last week a friend was sorting through an issue that affects all of us at one time or another. She has a fine career and was suddenly sideswiped by a loss of confidence. It was not depression as much as a deflation. She had lost her sense of hope and belief in her own skills. All she could see was being stuck and immobilized – or worse. It’s often called the ‘imposter syndrome’ or the fear of being found out as not being as competent as everyone thought.”

Read or listen to the essay.

Our Most Common Sin

By Ron Rolheiser

“I venture to say that most of us operate, however unconsciously, out of anger and this shows itself in our constant criticism of others, in our cynicism, in our jealousy of others, in our bitterness, and in our inability to praise others. And unlike most of our other sins, anger is easy to camouflage and rationalize as virtue.”

Read the essay.

The Many Parts of Ourselves

A book recommendation from Joanna Seibert.

“Those parts of ourselves that block us from the Spirit can also be pathways back to an even richer relationship to the God or Spirit within us. Christians would tell us that the life of Mary Magdalene is our scriptural example. Whatever her seven demons were, they led her to Christ and a new relationship with God and a new life. The recovery community would say that the recovering alcoholic or addict is led back to the God of his understanding in his journey to recovery. The Jungians would tell us that a recognition of the shadow or unloved or unaccepted part of us can become our hidden treasure or gold.”

Read Joanna’s essay.

Love. Period.

A new podcast with Jacqui Lewis
From Center for Action and Contemplation

“How do we stand in love and faith in the midst of injustice? Starting early May, join Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis for Love. Period., a new podcast that advocates a fresh view of spirituality—a grown-up, inter-religious, universal view that speaks across race, gender, sexuality and generations. In conversation with special guests like CAC friends Rev. Dr. William Barber, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Jacqui invites us to experience faith as the practice of fierce love that heals the soul and the world.”

For more information.

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

Radical Joy For Hard Times

By Trebbe Johnson
From Daily Good

“When I receive a gift, I am conscious of both the gift and the giver. Gratitude suffuses me. This gratitude often transforms into a wish to give something back to my generous giver. We are conscious of this desire to give back when it comes to people who are givers. Places are givers, too. And we can give back to them. When we do, we become more courageous, more creative—and certainly more grateful!”

Read the essay.

Religion After Pandemic

By Diana Butler Bass

“During a Freeing Jesus event hosted by a Seattle church, a man asked: ‘What do you think is going to happen with churches after the pandemic? How is Christianity going to be changed by this?’ The question startled me. I was focused on my new book and not talking about the future of faith. I quickly pivoted back to Jesus. And the questioner just as quickly pivoted back to ‘What’s going to happen after the pandemic?’ 

“I don’t know,” I replied. “Nobody knows.”

Read the essay.

Our Struggle for Empathy and Generativity

By Ron Rolheiser

“In our normal, daily lives we are invariably so self-preoccupied that we find it difficult to be able to accord others the same reality and value we give to ourselves. In brief, it’s difficult for us to live in true empathy because we are forever consumed with our own heartaches and headaches. From two famous intellectuals, one speaking philosophically and the other psychologically, we get that same insight.”

Read the essay.

Learning to Read Spiritual Signs

By Joanna Seibert
From Daily Something

As spiritual friends, we help each other see where God is working in our lives. We have friends helping us connect the dots, suggesting that a storm may be coming when we miss the signs. We are called to remember how God led us in our past. We have seen the signs in the past. When one of us cannot presently see the signs of God alive in our lives, those of us who can see help out each other.

Read the meditation.

Group Spiritual Direction Workshop

An e-course from Shalem Institute
Tuesday, June 1, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm EDST
Wednesday, June 2, 12:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDST
Thursday, June 3, 12:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDST
Via Zoom

For those who want to learn or deepen the practice of Group Spiritual Direction. Participants will immerse themselves in a virtual spiritual community as they experience Group Spiritual Direction and explore their own call to this ministry. Through live experiential learning, presentations, small GSD groups, and prayerful silence, participants will steep themselves in the contemplative grounding which is the heart of this ministry.

For more information and to register.

Practicing Spirituality at Home – 2021

An e-course from Spirituality and Practice
By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Sunday, May 2 – Thursday, June 10

“Remember those little things we may do regularly, such as lighting a candle for a special occasion or tending to the care of a pet or a houseplant. These all have spiritual meaning, and they can become a workshop for the spirit if approached with respect, creativity, and imagination.” 

This e-course consists of 40 daily emails of practices, rituals, reminders, and prayers to help you bring more focus and intentionality to the ordinary things you do at home.

For more information and to register.

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

In celebration of Earth Day 

Crisis Kitchen

From Daily Good.

Watch an incredible video about Crisis Kitchen, a mutual aid group that has emerged during the coronavirus pandemic in Portland, Oregon, as a means to help people thrive. It was begun by laid-off restaurant workers. Free, high-quality, delicious meals are prepared and delivered by volunteers, utilizing donated space. This vibrant alternative care economy sends out 1,000 meals per week as an investment in the well being of the whole community, and as “an expression of love that is easily given to people you do not know.”

Watch the video.

Grieving the Trees

by The Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas
From Daily Meditations, Center for Action and Contemplation

“I’ve taken to praying outdoors. I go outside, feel the good earth beneath my feet and the wind on my face, and I sing to the trees—to oak and beech, hemlock and pines. Making up the words and music as I go along, I sing my grief to the trees that are going down, and my grief for so much more—for what we have lost and are losing, and for what we are likely to lose.”

Read the meditation.

Exhaling My Prayer Breath

By Westina Matthews
From Shalem Institute

“On January 29th I received my first Pfizer vaccine shot. On February 19th, I received the second shot. Two weeks later, I could finally begin to breathe deeply again. How long had I been holding my prayer breath?”

Read the essay.

Absence Makes the Heart Grow

By Br. Keith Nelson
From Cowley Magazine by Society of St. John the Evangelist

“We know that the familiar adage ends with the cheery adjective ‘fonder.’ To feel the absence of someone we cherish does often deepen our love the longer we are apart. But absence may also make the heart grow numb or inert, grief-stricken or depressed, baffled or enraged. Absence can make the heart grow hopeless.”

Read or listen to the rest of the essay.

Women on their Journey of Finding Purpose and Call

An online book club from Lumunos about women on their journey of finding purpose and call.
Meets via Zoom the first Wednesday of the month from 11am — 12pm ET.
Registration is free. Join anytime!

This meeting of “Women Becoming,” will discuss Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Book of Longings (https://suemonkkidd.com/books/the-book-of-longings/). In small groups, participants will use the the book as a resource to better understand their own stories. Future readings will also be books about women finding their calling and learning to live their most authentic lives.

For more information.

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

Dignity

We need to pray our lives, acknowledging both the dignity of our own life and the dignity of other people. We need prayer to discern how to steward this gift of life entrusted to each of us. And we need a practice, how then to live in a world filled with God’s children in need. -Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE

On Friendship

From the Center for Action and Contemplation

In two reflections recently, Richard Rohr of CAC looks at friendship, what he calls a “sacred relationship.” “A friend is medicine for life,” says Rohr. “What a striking metaphor! No remedy is more powerful, effective, and distinctive in everything that fills this life than to have someone to share your every loss with compassion and your every gain with congratulation.”

In “Sacred Relationship,” Rohr defines true friendship and mourns the way friendship is often devalued in our current society.

Read Sacred Relationship

In “The Gift of Wise Friends,” Rohr and Mirabai Starr look at the friendship between Francis of Assissi and his dear friend Clare, founder of the Poor Clares.  It is a sweet remembrance of these two extraordinary people who influenced Christianity. 

Read The Gift of Wise Friends

Daily Resurrection

By Fr. Ron Rolheiser

“What the resurrection of Jesus promises is that things can always be new again. It’s never too late to start over. Nothing is irrevocable. No betrayal is final. No sin is unforgivable. Every form of death can be overcome. There isn’t any loss that can’t be redeemed. Every day is virgin. There is really no such thing as old age.”

Read the essay.

The Seasons Of Life

From Sunny Skyz

 “There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly,” begins a modern-day parable.  “So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.” This parable reminds us to not judge our lives by whatever may be happening in this current season of life, but to remember that all seasons of life have much to teach us.

Read the parable.

Reopening with Intention

By Scott Stoner
From Living Compass

“I was unaware, back before Covid, of much I was idealizing busyness. Hurrying from one thing to another, I failed to realize how unable I was to be fully present and attentive to what I was doing.”

Read the reflection.

Judaism’s “Inner Path” of Aging

A webinar
From Sage-ing International 

Tuesday, April 20, 12:00- 1:30 pm ET

There is a wealth of wisdom within traditional Judaism that guides the individual along the evolving spiritual path of aging. “With aged men comes wisdom, and understanding in length of days” says the Talmud. This short webinar will include teaching and small-group discussions.

For more information and to register.

Practicing Spirituality at Home 

An e-course
From Spirituality and Practice

Sunday, May 2 – Thursday, June 10

This e-course consists of 40 daily emails that offer practices, rituals, reminders, and prayers to help you bring more focus and intentionality to the ordinary things you do at home. S&P will share some of the attitudes and actions recommended by 40 of their favorite writers.

For more information and to register.

Cultivating Contentment 

An e-course
From Spirituality and Practice

Sunday, May 2 – Saturday, May 22

Contentment begins with satisfaction with who you are and where you are in your life. It is not a word that we hear used much these days. But deep inside many of us is a yearning for this path which takes within its embrace simplicity, gratitude, equanimity, being present, and freedom from wanting.

For more information and to register.

Special invitation from the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas

Adults are invited to gather at Camp Capers in Waring, Texas for the Annual The Good, the True, & the Beautiful: Bishop’s Spring Retreat. Focused on the arts, creativity, and spirituality, the retreat will take place Friday, April 16, through Sunday, April 18th, 2021.

Hosted by Bishop David Reed, the weekend will feature two keynote speakers, afternoon breakout sessions, workshops focused on creativity, open mic night, worship, time for personal reflection, and fellowship. 

As keynote guests, Dr. John Price (Houston-based therapist, retreat leader, and musician) and Patrice Pike (Austin-based musician and founder of Step Onward, a nonprofit for young adult survivors of homelessness) will share how self-knowledge and life experiences can inform luminous stories and songs of faith.

More details, including words of welcome from the guests, workshop listings, weekend schedule, and pricing are listed on the event page. Find it here.

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

With Thanks to the Field Sparrow, Whose Voice is so Delicate and Humble

By Mary Oliver

I do not live happily or comfortably
with the cleverness of our times.
The talk is all about computers,
the news is all about bombs and blood.
This morning, in the fresh field,
I came upon a hidden nest.
It held four warm, speckled eggs.
I touched them.
Then went away softly,
having felt something more wonderful
than all the electricity of New York City.

—— From Devotions, the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, page 73

Overflowing with Gratefulness

An online study from The Wisdom Years.
For four weeks,
starting April 15, 2021
4 to 5:15 p.m. (Central time)

When we are grateful, says Brother David Steindl-Rast of The Network for Grateful Living, our hearts fill up and overflow like a bowl with joy and contentment. Our culture teaches that we should fill our bowls with material goods, and when the bowl is full we should get a bigger and better one and buy more goods to fill it. But then it never overflows.

There is a better way. A way that recognizes that enough is enough and true joy consists of being grateful for what we have.

In our four-week study, we will
– consider how we can live knowing that what we have and what we are is all we need
– learn to “hold space” for the possibilities for joy and contentment our God reveals to us
– look at practices that open us to awareness of blessings that call forth grateful living

To learn more and sign up for the study.
or send an email to Marjorie George at marjoriegeorge62@gmail.com.

Slowing Down

From Daily Good, April 5, 2021. 

This meditative video from Green Renaissance goes on a journey of slowing down and appreciating more of nature. It reminds us to slow our own pace so we can feed our souls.  Green Renaissance  is a passionate collective of four creatives, on a journey to share positive stories. 

Watch the video.

Visit https://www.patreon.com/greenrenaissance to see more videos and consider supporting their work.

A Second Look at the Resurrection

By Joanna Seibert

How do we explain the fact that no one recognized the resurrected Jesus? “The disciples on the road to Emmaus after the resurrection did not recognize [Jesus]. Mary Magdalene did not recognize him. The disciples meeting Jesus on the beach were not sure who he was. Jesus came and went through closed doors. The resurrected Jesus gave fishing tips, cooked meals, and ate dinner with his friends.”

Read the essay.

Following Jesus – Be Ready for Some Surprises

By Fr. Ron Rolheiser

“We often attempt to imitate Jesus by trying to copy his actions. It works this way: Jesus did certain things, so we should do them too. He taught, healed, consoled the downtrodden, went off into the desert by himself, stayed up all night occasionally and prayed, and visited the homes of sinners. So we should do the same things: We should become teachers, nurses, preachers, counsellors, monks, social workers, and non-judgemental friends to the less-than-pious.”

Read the essay.

It Couldn’t Be Clearer

–by Betsey Crawford, syndicated from kosmosjournal.org, Apr 03, 202, found in Daily Good

“It will be years before we comprehend the full effect of this pandemic. But we can already see that we are all completely, intimately, and sometimes desperately interrelated.”

Read the essay. (It’s long, but worth a serious read.)

Contemplative Earth Awareness

An online retreat day from Shalem Institute
Material available April 7 – June 23, 2021.

This individual online retreat day consists of video and audio teaching, which you can access on your computer or tablet, poetry for reading and contemplation, guided meditation audio, reflection questions and invitations into silence. Ann Dean, a spiritual director and nationally-known leader of retreats and conferences for deepening the life of prayer, invites you to deepen your contemplative Earth awareness by opening more fully to the divine loving Presence in all living beings.

For more information.

Living from the Spiritual Heart

An online course from Shalem Institute
Material available April 11, 2021 – May 23, 2021

 Join Tilden Edwards, Shalem’s founder and senior fellow, for six weekly sessions. With material designed specifically for this eCourse, Tilden offers video teachings, guided meditations, reflection questions, and midweek check-in emails. Material may accessed at any time within the course date timeframe. Material will be available for an extra 2 weeks after the course ends.

For more information.

A weekly collection of inspiration and resources for the journey, gathered from websites, books, and pass-alongs that have been shared with us. From The Wisdom Years – Spirituality for the Last Third of Our Lives.

Silence

We’re invited to practice remaining still before the Lord, ready to notice the visit from an angel delivering God’s Divine message of Silence. As this luminous darkness unfolds within, a peace and joy, beautiful beyond beauty, is born in our hearts, like a flower blooming in the desert. Out of this fertile silence, God’s Eternal Word is born, and so we bear the fruit of Christ’s Light by word, deed, and presence in the world.

Br. Nicholas Bartoli
Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Holy Week

Holy Week begins Sunday, March 28, with the Palm Sunday ritual of recalling Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Whatever Holy Week means to you – whether you attend formal worship services every day as an act of contrition and faithfulness or merely celebrate Easter as an indication of the arrival of spring, this week is an opportunity to quietly sit with God, in the garden if you like.

As Brother Bartoli notes above, this week offers an opportunity to engage  a practice of intentional silence and solitude for a brief period each day. One possibility is the use of the Centering Prayer method taught by Thomas Keating.

Learn more about Centering Prayer and other quiet practices at Contemplative Outreach. 

The brothers of SSJE offer resources for praying each day of Holy Week with selections of music, sermons, videos, and photographs.

Find the full range of resources here. 

Below see worship opportunities for Holy Week from Washington National Cathedral and the Society of St. John the Evangelist. 

The Agony in the Garden – The Special Place of Loneliness

By Fr. Ron Rolheiser

“It’s Jesus, the lover, the one who calls us to intimacy and delight with him, who sweats blood in the garden. That’s why, in describing his suffering during his passion, the evangelists focus little on his physical sufferings (which must have been horrific). Indeed, Mark puts it all in a single line: ‘They led him away and crucified him.’ What the gospel writers focus on is not the scourging, the whips, the ropes, the nails, the physical pain, none of that. They emphasize rather that, in all of this, Jesus is alone, misunderstood, lonely, isolated, without support, unanimity-minus-one.”

Read the essay.

Unless …

By the Rev. Mike Marsh
From a sermon preached on March 21, 2021

“We all have our ‘unlesses.’ They are lenses through which we see. They are the restrictions, limitations, and conditions that shape and inform our relationships and understanding of each other, Jesus, and ourselves.”

Read the sermon.

Musing on the Season

By Parker Palmer
From Daily Good

“I love the fact that the word ‘humus’–the decayed vegetable matter that feeds the roots of plants–comes from the same word root that gives rise to the word ‘humility.’ It is a blessed etymology. It helps me understand that the humiliating events of life, the events that leave ‘mud on my face’ or that ‘make my name mud,’ may create the fertile soil in which something new can grow.”

Read the essay.

Worship Opportunities for Holy Week

From Washington National Cathedral

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
Sunday, March 28, 11:15am (Eastern time)

The Cathedral opens Holy Week with a service marking the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and move to the story of Christ’s utter rejection and crucifixion outside the gates of the city.

This live webcast will be available on the Cathedral’s website, Facebook and YouTube channels.

Maundy Thursday
April 1, 7 pm (Eastern time)
Holy Eucharist with Stripping of the Altar

Maundy Thursday begins the Great Three Days (The Triduum) as we remember the Last Supper, the agony in the garden of Gethsemane and Jesus’ journey to the cross and crucifixion.

This service will be streamed on the Cathedral’s website.

Good Friday
Friday, April 2, 12:00pm (Eastern time)
Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday

On this most solemn of days, we offer a service of scripture, music, ancient prayer to mark the suffering, crucifixion, and death of Jesus Christ.

This service will be streamed here on the Cathedral’s website, YouTube page and Facebook page.

Easter Sunday,
April 4, 11:15 am (Eastern time)
Festival Holy Eucharist

The Cathedral proclaims the raising of Jesus Christ from the dead through word and song in a festive service marking the beginning of the Easter season.

The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith presides and the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde preaches.

The service will be streamed on the Cathedral’s website, YouTube page and Facebook page. 

From Society of St. John the Evangelist

All the major liturgies of Holy Week will be live-streamed at SSJE.org/chapel or on the Friends of SSJE Facebook page.

Times are Eastern.

The Sunday of the Passion:
Palm Sunday – March 28
9:00 am – Blessing of Palms & Holy Eucharist
4:00 pm – Evening Prayer

Maundy Thursday– April 1
7:30 pm – Holy Eucharist with Foot-washing
9:00 pm-7:00 am – Watch before the Reserved Sacrament

Good Friday – April 2
7:30 pm – Liturgy of the Passion and Holy Communion

Holy Saturday – April 3
6:00 pm – Evening Prayer

Sunday of the Resurrection:
Easter Day – April 4
4:30 am – The Great Vigil of Easter
5:00 pm – Evening Prayer

Gathered Wisdom is taking its own advice and sitting in silence next week. We will return on Tuesday, April 6. We wish you a joyous Easter.