
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
In 2009, hundreds of thousands of visitors put all 601 feet of the Cathedral to use – artists and animals tumbled and tramped through – great performances mesmerized – voices from the pulpit echoed from the High Altar to the Bronze Doors – bells tolled – the Great Organ set the air a-shiver with sound – and the Cathedr...al is poised for much more. . .into 2010 we go! Celebrate with us at the New Year's Eve Concert for Peace: http://www.stjohndivine.org/NYE2009.html
Happy New Year!

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC is celebrating the dedication of the 2009 Peace Tree, adorned with 1,000 hand folded paper cranes symbolizing peace and friendship. This holiday season lets be grateful and embrace our diversity; what unites us is ultimately more powerful than what divides us. Happy Holidays!

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC is preparing for Paul Winter and Consort's 30th annual winter solstice celebration this coming Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Special guests include Russia’s Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble and New York’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Tickets are available through the Cathedral website.

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will be filled this Saturday night with the Choir's rich medley of voices at this years Christmas Concert. The Choir and The American Composers Orchestra with Anna Reinersmann on harp with other special guests will treat listeners to Dancing Day by John Rutter and Part One and Hallelujah of G.F. Handel's masterpiece, ...Messiah. http://www.stjohndivine.org/CathedralChr istmas09.html

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC
welcomes musician, activist and humanitarian, Sting, for two evenings
featuring songs from his brilliant new album If On A Winter's Night... (photo below copyright Tony Molina)

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC The Episcopal Church is the United States branch of Anglicism. It claims about 2.3. million members. The Anglican Communion is the world's third largest Christian body after the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Its 77 million members are comprised of 38 provinces worldwide. Anglicans trace their roots to the Churc...h of England and its leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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In Rome, the archbishop of Canterbury called for clarity on the future of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC was chartered as "a house of prayer for all people." Passionately committed to being a place where people experience the immense possibility of the human spirit, the Cathedral actively seeks out different voices, gathering the crucial conversations of every generation under its roof. Photo below by Helena Kubicka de ...Braganca: Vado Diomande and Kotchegna performing traditional dance from the Ivory Coast

Suzanne Phillips The Lord Be With You (and also with you) Lift up your hearts....or is it hands.....?

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC invites you to meet Elizabeth Royte, author of Bottlemania, next Sunday, 11/15 for a conversation at 2:30 in Cathedral House and for Evensong at 4:00. Royte discusses the consequences of making, filling, transporting and land-filling the billions of bottles of water we have become used to drinking as a convenience or ...as an effort towards healthier living. Royte examines the state of tap water today, and the social impact of water-hungry multinationals sinking ever more pumps into our global communities. Fiji Water, Glacial Water, Voss Water, Evian and on and on. Join us!

Margaret Diehl I had a wonderful time at the Tennessee Williams tribute last night-
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"The Eyes" by Tennessee Williams, glorious bird, Gore Vidal on Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams poems, the cathedral of St. John the Divine poet's corner

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC from the Memoirs of Tennessee Williams: "Do you think that I have told you my life story? I have told you the events of my life, and described as best I could, without legal repercussions, the dramatis personae of it. But life is made up of moment-to-moment occurrences in the nerves and the perceptions, and try as you ...may, you can't commit them to the actualities of your own history." Photo (courtesy Rudoph Rainer) Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, Olympia Dukakis, John Guare, Vanessa Redgrave

Vincent Ellin I still remember this Church from my long distant childhood....I love churches

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC was delighted to have Roger Housden, author of many books including a recent anthology of sacred poetry - for lovers of God everywhere, Poems of the Christian Mystics - read at Evensong. Following by 18th century Jesuit Jean Pierre de Caussade: "The divine will is a deep abyss of which the present moment is the entranc...e. If you plunge into this abyss you will find it infinitely more vast than your desires."

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC Artistic and intellectual discourse at the Cathedral opens us to the "God" of whirlwinds, of change, of creation itself. The Poets' Corner, modeled after the original in Westminster Abbey, celebrates Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, ee cummings and other great American writers whose voices have carried us to the far edg...e of what words can say and sometimes beyond.
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