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From Seatttle-
The shutdowns of worship were directed by Etienne and Episcopal
Bishop Greg Rickel, in accordance with Gov. Jay Inslee's limit of 250
persons at public gatherings. "While I cannot disclose details we do, in
fact, now have several of our churches affected directly with some of
the people in quarantine," Rickel wrote.
Such services as the 10 a.m. Sunday mass at St. James
draw a heavy turnout of elderly worshippers, who are especially
vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Other places of worship in the Puget Sound area are
likewise live streaming, Temple de Hirsch with its Shabbat services,
Seattle's First United Methodist Church with its Sunday morning worship.
The Cedar Park Church in Bothell is doing online worship. Likewise,
Seattle First Baptist Church is having online worship only, and Sunday
printed a sermon by Rev. Dr. Tim Phillips, along with Psalm 95 ("We are
the people he watches over, the flock under his care").
More here-
https://www.seattlepi.com/coronavirus/article/A-live-streamed-Lent-Seattle-cathedrals-empty-15132901.php
From ENS-
Waterway, in the shadow of tug boats and a grain storage warehouse, is an unlikely sight: eight raised beds of lettuces, green tomatoes and squash blossoms.
There’s a carpet of wood chips. There’s a picnic table and some benches. A small compost bin stands against a chain-link fence. On the other side of the fence grow wild raspberries, cascading toward the waterway where tugboats pass on their way to work in the Port of Seattle.
“It’s spectacular here,” exclaimed Mission to Seafarers Seattle Director Ken Hawkins on a recent afternoon as tugs sounded their horns and traffic on the West Seattle Bridge streamed overhead.
More here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/08/01/mission-to-seafarers-welcomes-strangers-with-peace-vegetables/
From Seattle-
Every Friday, Nancy Rogers opens the battered, former cream-puff box with the hole cut out of the lid, sits at a plastic-covered table at the back of the room and reads the prayer requests that have been slipped inside by the homeless people who come for breakfast five days a week.
“They’re for housing,” she said of the requests. “They’re for jobs. They’re for a relative who is sick. They’re for getting along with each other.”
Rogers and her colleagues at the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church feeding program bow their heads and pray for all those things and more.
Then they get up and start lunch for the more than 100 people who will come in off the streets of Ballard and beyond — the sixth and last meal of the week made by this army of older women who have never stopped being mothers.
More here-
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/for-27-years-these-seattle-women-have-served-food-and-unconditional-love-to-the-needy/
From Seattle-
South African novelist Alan Paton, elderly and nearly blind, spoke against apartheid 30 years ago at Seattle’s St. Mark’s Cathedral. The author of “Cry the Beloved Country” in a sad session with Seattle Post-Intelligencer editors, saw bloody racial confrontation as the only future path.
But the miraculous evolution of her native South Africa gives hope of a way about for a grieving Israeli mother named Robi Damelin, who saw her soldier-scholar son shot to death by a sniper while on duty with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
“I think I cannot give up hope, I live there: I believe in the possibility of people to change. Yes, I am an optimist. Miracles happen,” Damelin told a Sunday forum at St. Mark’s.
Damelin was here with Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian father whose 10-year-old daughter was killed by an IDF soldier. They are active in Parents Circle-Family Forum, a grassroots movement of Palestinians and Israelis pressing for a mutual understanding that will bring peace after conflict that has lasted 65 years.
More here-
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/10/14/peace-in-palestine-miracles-happen/
From Seattle-
Over the years, Patricia Patterson thought about joining protest marches in support of women's rights or against war. But the cause that finally got her to take to the streets was nuns."It baffles me that a group of women who are among the ... most compassionate are being, frankly, picked on by the Vatican," Patterson said Sunday. She joined a throng of nearly 500 people who marched in support of the nuns' group recently rebuked by the Catholic Church for promoting "radical feminist themes" at odds with official doctrine.Patterson carried a picture of her aunt, a nun who had a major influence on her life. Other marchers carried flowers and sang hymns as they walked from Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill to St. James Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese of Seattle.But Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain wasn't home. He was in St. Louis for meetings with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group that includes about 80 percent of women's religious orders in the United States.The Vatican put Sartain in charge of revamping the Leadership Conference to bring its practices more in line with Catholic orthodoxy.After a four-day conference that concluded Friday, the nuns agreed to talk with Sartain but said they would not "compromise the integrity" of their mission.More here-
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018907447_nuns13m.html
From Seattle-
St. Mark's Cathedral, while professing its love for social justice, has denied a request by Occupy Seattle to pitch tents as "offices" in the cathedral's parking lot, a few blocks north of the movement's recent Seattle Central Community College encampment.
The pre-Christmas no-room-in-the-parking-lot decision was made by St. Mark's governing Vestry, which has in the past allowed the Tent City homeless encampment to pitch multiple tents in the lot of the Episcopal cathedral.
"The heart of the cathedral community is in social justice, but legal and financial constraints made it unrealistic for us to approve the request," said the Rev. Canon Rebecca McClain, senior priest on the cathedral staff.
Coast-to-coast actions by churches show that the nimbus of the Occupy movement is wearing thin.
Trinity Church, the wealthy Episcopal congregation in New York's lower Manhattan, has fed and clothed Occupy Wall Street protesters -- but has refused to let them camp on a church-owned gravel lot. Several demonstrators were arrested there last weekend after scaling a chain-link fence onto the lot.
More here-
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/St-Mark-s-Cathedral-to-Occupy-Seattle-No-room-2418633.php
From Seattle-
The "Holy Box" atop Capitol Hill -- St. Mark's Cathedral -- has devoted three long years to a "healing process" after the tumultuous departure of its last dean, and is at last ready to fill one of the principal pulpits in very secular Seattle."It has been a long time," said Roger Valdez, a member of the governing vestry of the Episcopal cathedral, which has been one of Episcopalians' best-attended churches in America.In becoming head pastor of this Seattle institution, the new dean will need the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job.Or as the parish profile puts it, he or she must bring "a vision for urban ministry," a "heart for pastoral case," plus "a sense of the worldwide church unfolding in this 21st century." And there's this description of worship:"While we are specifically a Christian and Episcopal community, we pride ourselves on our interfaith events, which draw Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Native Americans to celebrate a deep and broad understanding of God."Read more:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/St-Mark-s-Cathedral-Heeling-and-looking-for-2338515.php#ixzz1fNadvpVa
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