Hello St. Paul’s, As we head into the summer months, we want to update you on the cathedral’s music ministry. As you know, our choirs are sounding magnificent this season, perhaps the best in a long time. This is due in large part to the presence of our staff singers. We do our best to … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground In Action Ministry: While workplaces and homes of migrants are raided and people detained, sometimes with ICE and other immigration enforcement agencies defying the law without authorization, many people in Los Angeles, San Diego, and throughout the country are exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly. Please take action to support our … READ MORE…
From St. Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: As faithful followers of Jesus, we are called to care for creation. Here are two resources, the first especially relevant to Ocean Awareness Month. In response to UN Sustainable Development goals the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference is being held in Nice, France this week with the … READ MORE…
Hello–may the Lord be with you! My name is Marti Welch-Doyle, and I am both pleased and honored to be sharing information as well as my experiences with Education for Ministry at St Paul’s Cathedral. EfM is a four-year Christian Formation program founded and administered through the School of Theology of the University of the … READ MORE…
Simpler Living Ministry: What a great neighbor we have just a few blocks away! How often do you walk along the beach, boogie board or swim, listen to the wave’s ebb and flow? You don’t have to give it a thought to appreciate its importance in God’s good creation! Here are a few resources to … READ MORE…
Dean Penny Bridges Alleluia, Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia. In this last week of the Easter season, the story of faith is building to Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit will descend upon the disciples. But the Holy Spirit is already very much in evidence, as we see in our story from … READ MORE…
From St. Paul’s Sacred Ground in Action (SGIA) & Simpler Living ministries: With the US Supreme Court’s refusal to hear an appeal from the Apache Stronghold to halt the massive Resolution Copper mine project on Oak Flat sacred Apache land, yet another treaty has been broken in the name of greed and in disregard of … READ MORE…
This month our highlighted ministry is the Altar Guild. Guild members are also known as sacristans, and here is a letter from sacristan Steve Mater. When I was a child, my mother was a member of the Altar Society for the small Catholic Church in my hometown. I would often go with her to help … READ MORE…
Dear Beloved St. Paul’s Community, I came to St. Paul’s not quite two years ago with a radiant theology developed over a lifetime as a spiritual refugee, a hard-won readiness to question, and a hope to push this small slice of the church to evolve, stretch, and create to meet the moment of not just … READ MORE…
Fifth Sunday of Easter,Penelope Bridges Alleluia, Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia. As so often happens in Easter season, we are reading our Scripture backwards today. The first reading, from Acts, comes well after both the resurrection and the revelation of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The second reading, from the Revelation … READ MORE…