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Let the Little Children Come unto Us!
posted on Feb 8, 2023 Dear People of God, At the annual meeting on Sunday, we saw statistics indicating a direct connection between a healthy, growing parish and the number of families with young children. If you look at our acolyte program, our children's ministr...
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Ash Wednesday 2023
posted on Jan 24, 2023 Ash Wednesday, is the first of the forty days of Lent, named for the custom of placing blessed ashes on the foreheads of worshipers. The ashes are a sign of penitence and a reminder of mortality. Ash Wednesday is observed as a fast in the church ...
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Lay Weeder Spring Work Day
posted on Jan 24, 2023 The Lay Weeder Spring Workday will be Saturday, February 25, from 8:00 am to 11:00 am, with lunch at 11:00. Lay Weeders will be planting annuals and shrubs, spreading pine straw mulch and doing garden clean-up around the Cathedral. Participants s...
Read MoreRemembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on Jan 15, 2023 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Archival Footage from SALT Project on Vimeo . In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, here's a lovely two-minute immersion in amazing archival footage from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs...
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Celebrate CAP!
posted on Jan 15, 2023 Cathedral Arts Project (CAP) is celebrating 30 years! What began as one dance class in Taliaferro Hall for 10 students has now reached more than 30,000 children in Northeast Florida and beyond. In 1993, Gail Weltsek and a small group of voluntee...
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The Unnamed Women of the Gospels
posted on Dec 28, 2022 An in-person Bible study focusing on the un-named women in the Gospel whose faithful responses to Jesus impact the Kingdom narrative. What can we learn from these women as we seek to follow Jesus in the new year? How can the nameless, powerless...
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Cathedral at the Beaches
posted on Dec 28, 2022 For those who live "way east," here's an opportunity to gather close to home. We're forming a small group comprised of St. John's Cathedral members who live at the beaches. The format of our meetings will be supper followed by theological discuss...
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
posted on Dec 24, 2022 Here at St. John's, we have an annual tradition of offering one of the most beautiful Christmas services in the Anglican tradition, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Held at 5 p.m. every New Year's Eve, this service is a journey in music a...
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News / Center for Prayer & Spirituality - Engaging the Contemplative Life
Who Is My Neighbor?
posted on Dec 18, 2022 A Quiet Garden Morning offered by The Center for Prayer and Spirituality at St. John's Cathedral. In the season of Epiphany when the Holy is manifest in many showings, we will look at the question posed to Jesus, "who is my neighbor?" On Sa...
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
posted on Dec 7, 2022 December 31 5 p.m. A New Year's Eve tradition at St. John's Cathedral, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has been voted one of the top things to do on New Year's Eve in Jacksonville. We agree that it is an excellent way to start the last e...
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