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Remembering 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...
Read MoreCelebrate 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreCathedral 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 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...
Read MoreThird Sunday of Advent
posted on Dec 5, 2022 Sunday, December 11, 2022
8 a.m. Worship Service
9 a.m. | Virtual Faith Forum | Zoom
Our speaker will be Joe
O'Shields, lawyer and Hospital Chaplain discussing "St
. John's as
a Neighbor: An Historical Perspective." ...
Read MoreCall for Vestry Nominations
posted on Nov 23, 2022 Our Parish bylaws provide a nominating process for the upcoming vacancies on the vestry as well as Delegates to the Diocesan Convention. Nominations must be submitted and qualified by December 15. The election will be held at the Annual Parish Me...
Read MoreSt. Nicholas
posted on Nov 22, 2022 On Sunday, December 4, we will celebrate St. Nicholas with a special service at 9 a.m. in Cathedral Park. Did you know that St. Nicholas was a real person? Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in the fourth century. He cared deeply for other people. The m...
Read MoreNew Bulletin Format
posted on Nov 22, 2022 Dear friends,
As Advent approaches, your communications team at the Cathedral is busy moving into a new liturgical year. And in this new year, we will find ourselves with a new kind of worship bulletin. Actually, we will find ourselves with t...
Read MorePreparing for Christ's birth
posted on Nov 20, 2022 Dear Cathedral family, Legend has it that in 1839, a German pastor named Johann Henrich Wichern took an old wheel from a cart and placed wax candles between the spokes to help the children in his mission school count the days to Christmas. ...
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