Chill out with your friends from EYC as we de-stress before finals. Fun painting activities, music, games, Chipotle dinner and a variety of sweet treats as we celebrate birthdays. We’ll also wish our graduating seniors on their way as they head into the next chapter of their lives.
Visit spcathedral.org/adults for more information and to register for the Zoom link.
Visit spcathedral.org/small-groups. Newcomers are always welcome to join!
The class will meet at 9:00 am on Sundays through May 12 in Harvard Hall, and yes, there will be coffee. Short excerpts from the Confessions will be available for participants to read before each session. Visit spcathedral.org/augustine for more information, a link to the book, and the reading schedule.
Visit spcathedral.org/adults for more information and to register for the Zoom link.
Visit spcathedral.org/small-groups. Newcomers are always welcome to join!
We will recognize and celebrate faith milestones for our children and youth:
- four-year-olds moving up to Children’s Chapel from the nursery
- rising third-graders joining EYSeedlings
- rising sixth-graders coming into EYC
- and our high school graduates!
We hope that ALL families will join us in worship this Sunday to pray for and support the children and youth in our congregation.
Visit spcathedral.org/small-groups. Newcomers are always welcome to join!
Visit spcathedral.org/small-groups. Newcomers are always welcome to join!
We have lots of things to tie-dye for Family Pride! You’re also welcome to bring your own items you’d like to tie-dye. Taco lunch provided! All ages are encouraged to join us.
The 10th annual Spiritual Pride dinner, hosted by the Friends of St. Aelred, will be at 6 pm Saturday, June 15, in Harvard Hall. June is Pride Month, and we hope you will come and enjoy a catered banquet, flowers, decorations, an inspiring program, and a chance to meet with other welcoming and affirming people from faith communities throughout the Tampa Bay area.
All are welcome! Spiritual Pride lifts up the importance of a supportive faith community for LGBTQI+ Episcopalians. That support is more important than ever now, when equality issues are under fire. Perhaps this year you’ll consider inviting someone you haven’t seen at the banquet before — and maybe even buying their ticket. Can you imagine what that might mean to a young adult: to see a room full of supporters and to know that you are one of them.
Our speaker will be our own Stephen Willis, moderator of the Friends of St. Aelred. Stephen is a real estate agent and manages the Court Administration-Polk County Juvenile Court Division, and was formerly a Pentecostal minister. At the Cathedral he is an usher and lector. His partner, Rodney Kayton, managing partner of a market research firm, serves on the Flower Guild and as a verger and is coordinating several aspects of the Spiritual Pride banquet.
Tickets ($40) will be sold at the Cathedral on Sundays: May 19 in the Narthex after the 8 am service; and May 19 and 26 and June 2 in Harvard Hall after the 10:15 am service. Visit spcathedral.org/pride to purchase tickets online.
Please buy your tickets early! We are space-limited to 118 attendees, and the dinner is often a sellout. Because beer and wine will be served, this event is open only to those age 21 and older.
The class will meet at 9:00 am on Sundays through May 12 in Harvard Hall, and yes, there will be coffee. Short excerpts from the Confessions will be available for participants to read before each session. Visit spcathedral.org/augustine for more information, a link to the book, and the reading schedule.
Our final service of Choral Evensong for the program year, at 5 pm April 28, includes the Responses of Bermuda-born contemporary composer Gabriel Jackson and the Service In G of British-born composer Francis Jackson (no relation).
Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) is probably best known for his vocal music, and while he cites Michael Tippett and Igor Stravinsky as influences, he is also drawn to soul and R&B. Francis Jackson (1917- 2022) was organist and music director at York Minster for 36 years. His extensive output of sacred and secular music includes canticles, anthems, hymn tunes (including the widely sung “East Acklam”), organ sonatas and other organ pieces, an organ concerto, a symphony, chamber music, and solo songs.
An organ prelude is at 4:45 p.m. Dwight Thomas is director of music and organist, and the Cathedral Chamber Choir sings. A freewill offering is taken, and a reception follows.
Contact Hillary Peete (hpeete@spcathedral.com) with any questions.
The class will meet at 9:00 am on Sundays through May 12 in Harvard Hall, and yes, there will be coffee. Short excerpts from the Confessions will be available for participants to read before each session. Visit spcathedral.org/augustine for more information, a link to the book, and the reading schedule.
Visit spcathedral.org/adults for more information and to register for the Zoom link.
We have hundreds of bandanas, scrunchies, and headbands to tie-dye for Pride Family Day! Join us as we get a head start on this project. You can also bring your own shirts, socks, shoes, or whatever you want to tie-dye too.
It is a tremendous gift to our survivors to put our wishes and intentions in writing. What do you want your funeral to look like? Join us for a workshop in Harvard Hall to walk through the stages of funeral planning as a gesture of pastoral and spiritual support to those we love.
We will look at the appropriate scripture passages and hymns (and perhaps sing a few), the choice of a service with or without a celebration of the Eucharist, and the particular aspects of Rite I and Rite II. We will talk about the costs of burial of cremation ashes, flowers, and choir. There are many choices, and the person best equipped to design the funeral you want is you. For younger folks, this workshop may equip you to start helpful conversations with your parents who have not yet made their plans.
You — everyone from children to seniors, men and women — are invited to participate this month in the Love Quilt Project, which creates handmade quilts for children orphaned by AIDS/ HIV in South Africa and those in foster care in this country. Each quilt features squares with words of encouragement and pictures drawn by adults and children that send a message to the recipient that love is the common thread uniting us all. These squares are sent to volunteers who complete the quilts using donated materials.
The founder of the Love Quilt Project will be with us on April 21 after the 10:15 am service for a workshop. We’ll gather in Harvard Hall at noon to have a sandwich lunch, view a short video, and learn more about the project. Everyone (all ages!) will have the opportunity to create a message square using fabric markers. Please register to help us plan for materials and lunch: spcathedral.org/arts.
Contact Hillary Peete (hpeete@spcathedral.com) with any questions.
The class will meet at 9:00 am on Sundays through May 12 in Harvard Hall, and yes, there will be coffee. Short excerpts from the Confessions will be available for participants to read before each session. Visit spcathedral.org/augustine for more information, a link to the book, and the reading schedule.
Create your own pysanky through this batik method of design, adapting ancient traditions from Ukraine to fit your personal meaning and style. Workshop leader Johanna Zenobia Krynytzky has been "writing" these eggs since she was old enough to hold a kistka, taught by her mother and grandmother. Today it thrives, in and out of Ukraine, as a national symbol of resilience, expression, and rebirth. Visit spcathedral.org/easter-eggs for more information and to register.
Visit spcathedral.org/adults for more information and to register for the Zoom link.
And any reader — Christian or not, philosopher or not — will find much in Augustine that is captivating, inspiring, and challenging. For the story of Augustine’s life as he presents it in the Confessions is at once startlingly intimate and dizzyingly cosmic.
“ ‘How can I make sense of this action?’ turns effortlessly into ‘How can anyone make sense of any action?’ ‘Why did I keep stepping on my own feet?’ leads to ‘Why do we all make such a mess of things?’— and, inevitably, to reflection on what exactly it means for a life, any life, to be a mess, and what it might look like for the mess to get cleaned up, for what is broken and fragmented and dispersed to get put back together.”
The class will meet at 9:00 am on Sundays through May 12 in Harvard Hall, and yes, there will be coffee. Short excerpts from the Confessions will be available for participants to read before each session. Visit spcathedral.org/augustine for more information, a link to the book, and the reading schedule.
Contact Hillary Peete (hpeete@spcathedral.com) with any questions.
This is for ALL FAST network members! We will gather with everyone from across the county to hear issue updates, testimonies, and approve the Nehemiah Action Agenda and what to expect at the Nehemiah Action. Visit spcathedral.org/fast for more information.
The Friends of St. Aelred is an organization of LGBTQ Episcopalians and their friends and supporters that strive for social justice, fellowship, and service to the community. Our mission is to love and serve each other, respecting all persons as diverse creatures of God. Visit spcathedral.org/small-groups for more information.
