It has been lit! If you missed the Pediment Dedication celebration on May 8th, stop by any time to see it (after dusk to see it lit!) and click here to read Dean Streit's remarks on the event! The Cathedral selected artist Donald Lipski to finish the Cathedral's pediment. Read more about the project and the history here. Read an extensive review of the new Cathedral pediment design from "The Living Church,” a national publication.    Our Dean with the Nautilus as it was being constructed onto the pediment Up and Coming...   The Cathedral is hosting ordinations to the diaconate and priesthood on Saturday, June 22nd, at 10:30 a.m. Bp. Shaw will preach and preside. Any Cathedral congregation members who can assist as greeters please contact the Cathedral office (cathedral@diomass.org). Please keep the ordinands in your prayers.   There will be a Lay Preaching class taught by Isaac Everett of The Crossing over eight Saturdays, May 11-June 29, with lunch at 12:00 followed by class 1:00-3:00 meeting in the Lawrence Room at the Cathedral Offices. Contact the Cathedral Office for more information.   In July, we will be moving to the air conditioned Lawrence Room for worship to get out of the heat for the summer.   Our first Hymn Sing of the summer will be on July 7th, our second on August 11th. We will be singing hymns at your request from The Hymnal 1982.   ***********************************************   This Sunday - June 23, 2013    There will be no Children’s Bible Study this Sunday. There will be no InFormation Forum this Sunday    ***********************************************     Dean Streit's Welcome: "This is an Episcopal Cathedral, your Episcopal cathedral. Please join us to worship and serve God. I think it could change your life. I know your presence, skills and passion will change ours."    The Cathedral's Pledge Appeal If you haven't made your pledge yet please do as soon as you can to help us meet our goal of $70,000 for this year. So far, we have $60,109 and over 850 hours of dedicated service pledged! Your support is crucial to our work here at the Cathedral. Send pledge cards to the Cathedral, or to request a card, please call our offices Click here to make an online pledge payment! (Please be sure to indicate your pledge payment in the feedback field)   How to find our Sunday Sermons   If you missed a celebration of Eucharist and still would like to hear the preaching, click here!   Click the link, then click "Just the Sermons," and you can find each sermon posted with their corresponding date and preachers! Many Angels Needed Now and Always (MANNA) We partner with four suburban churches whose volunteers work with our Leadership Team and staff to make and serve hot, nutritious meals to 150-175 members of the homeless community each week at our Monday Lunch Program. MANNA is much more than a meal. It is nutrition for the body in the form of healthy food, but also nutrition for the soul through a community forged across differences with love, respect, and welcome. The MANNA Book Group's Library is now officially open in the Church office lobby. The "microlibrary" is filled with books donated by many friends and congregants to our Cathedral. All are welcome to borrow a book, or donate one that is worth reading! The library hours are Mondays and Tuesdays from 9:00am to 2:00pm. The Pilgrim   "The kingdom of heaven, we are repeatedly told, is not trumpets and gongs and shafts of light but something far stealthier and lower to the ground, something-like yeast in the dough-whose presence may only be detectable in the sharpening, animating effect it has upon the ordinary elements of life. Something, perhaps, like a bunch of pilgrim writers showing up at a bookstore in Brookline and delivering a tight programme of readings to a quaking, sniffing, chuckling, gasping and finally standing-on-its-feet-applauding audience"...James Parker, Editor   Read more and excerpts from the March edition of the Pilgrim here.   The Pilgrim Journal is written by our homeless friends of the Blackseed Writers Group. Sign up for an annual print subscription for $25 by designating your gift to the Monday Lunch Program on our giving page.   Be sure to update your subscription! Many of the yearly subscriptions have run out!   The Crossing You're invited! The Crossing is an emerging church community that seeks to walk in the life-changing, world-changing Way of Jesus, sharing the love, hope, beauty and justice of God in the city of Boston. We fuse the wisdom and mystery of ancient traditions with that of urban mystics, artists and activists…a different way to gather, Thursdays from 6-7:30 p.m. in your Cathedral. Click here for The Crossing's website! "Like" us on Facebook. Be part of the conversation! Click here to be taken to our Facebook page and let us know what YOU want us to share. We're building our Facebook presence! If you want to find out more information, more about current events with the Cathedral, see our newest pictures - "Like" us by clicking the above link and "liking" the page!