Posted on 06/04/2023 8:55:25 PM PDT by Cronos
It’s part of the church’s month-long “Iconic Pride” series
The NYC Pride 2023 festivities have officially commenced, and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is getting in on the rainbow-hued celebrations.
To kickstart its monthlong "Iconic Pride" series, the uptown cathedral (located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street) is honoring the city's vibrant LGBTQ+ community with a fittingly colorful ongoing installation by Mexican-American visual artist Gabriel Garcia Roman. Along with the artist's Queer Icons works, which feature modern-day people seen through the lens of religious iconography, the display will see the cathedral's majestic interior columns illuminated in the colors of the Pride Flag.
St. John's will continue the celebration with an all-ages Pride Family Day on Saturday, June 3 from noon to 4pm, complete with an ice cream social, art activities inspired by the Queer Icons artworks and live music from the LBTQ+ marching band, the Queer Big Apple Corps. On Monday, June 5, the cathedral will host a Pride Panel Discussion from 6pm to 7:30pm, welcoming faith leaders across various religious denominations—The Rev. Dr. Charlie Bell, The Rev. James Martin, SJ, The Rev. Dr. Patrick Cheng, and The Rev. Dr. Mary Barber—to join The Very Rev. Patrick Malloy, Dean of the Cathedral, in a sit-down centered on the spiritual lives of LGBTQ+ communities.
And there's no church without a choir: on Sunday, June 18, a community choir made up of singers from around the city will join the Cathedral Choir for a Pride Evensong Service at 4pm, performing tunes from Ethel Smyth, Daniel Ficarri, Craig Phillips, among others. The Queer Horn Collective, a group of LGBTQ+ local instrumentalists, will also perform at the beginning of the service.
To conclude the monthlong series, the Feast Day of St. Pauli Murray—a sainted gender-nonconforming lesbian and activist who was the first Black woman ordained a priest in The Episcopal Church—will be held on Saturday, July 1. St. John's will honor her memory with a 6pm screening of My Name is Pauli Murray, a documentary about the saint's life and legacy.
Check out the full scope of the "Iconic Pride" series at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's website.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its bishop.the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, or St. John's Cathedral for short, after the Revelation by John of Patmos (also called "John the Divine").
Apostates are everywhere.
“God resists the proud”
Episcopal Church USA is gayer than a three-dollar bill.
And, sadly, perhaps 30-40% of Catholic bishops (and *all* of Bergoglio’s appointed cardinals in this country) would like nothing better that if the Catholic Church remade itself in the Episcopalians’ image.
If something isn’t done to stop this madness, it will eventually result in the demolition of these great structures.
What do they stand for, if not God’s word, which calls homosexuality an abomination?
Nothing. And once that is believed, there will be no further use for them, else they might rekindle the debate.
That is the exact plan.
I thought the Episcopal Church was dying... Isn’t this a Cathedral that was built during the time people were joing the Episcopal Church? Not leaving it in droves.
The Cathedral was built during the time when people were joining the Episcopal Church... Not in our time when people are leaving in droves.
I'm sure it would make a fine mosque or drag queen show cabaret.
I bugged out about 15 years ago. Apostate Church.
you are correct
The homo agenda is designed to not only have our churches literally destroyed, but ultimately have the Bible outlawed as hate speech.
We are well on our way, when people bow before gay loving politicians as their new idols.
You left when there were ~ 2 million attendees
Looks like it is below 1.5 million now and I think there will be a sudden drop 9ff when older people die.
I kind of think that cliff will happen in 2030. What do you think?
They’ll want to raze them to the ground. Can’t have anyone even contemplating what they once stood for.
Happy to say that my family left last year.
Its a beautiful building, built by rich and devout New Yorkers from an earlier time.
Its hardly a religious institution though. I was there just before covid and they had an “exhibit” of a huge metal dragon sculpture, hanging over the entire nave.
Pagans, they are
Many old and beautiful churches have already suffered the fate of being turned into mosques and bars (and worse). The new owners don't want them torn down because they delight in committing sacrilege and blasphemy in what was once a holy house of God.
The month of June sucks.
Can we take at least a one day break from this insanity on June 6?
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