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The Monthly Newsletter of Saint Mark’s Church, PhiladelphiaLion’s Mark

Summer 2010: ‘the Lion’s Mark’

Saint Mark’s is a community that gathers in faith, serves in love, and proclaims hope, through Jesus Christ.

From the Rector Crossing the Street, Unlocking the Gates

The Curate’s Column Place and Priesthood

People in the Pews Profiles of Saint Mark’s members: Joy Tomme

The Eight Doors of Saint Mark’s An Overview of Eight Areas of Ministry

The Last Word Roman Traffic — and Trust in God

Take Six A summer calendar for 1625 Locust

Irvin Odrick and Ken Pearlstein in the kitchen during Saturday’s Soup Bowl

Lion’s MarkSummer 2010

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By 5pmThat little episode reinforced a very important lesson that we have been learning at Saint James the Less. I was on one side of the church, alone, doing what the church thinks I should be do-ing on Easter Day. Clearly, that was not where the community thought it needed to be. They did want to be at Saint James the Less, however, and they wanted to use it, as they have told us over and over, as a place of refuge and welcome and happiness for their kids.

As the person who is more or less in charge of what happens at Saint James the Less, I see a real choice to be made. I could wait over on my side of the street for people to come to church. Or I could realize that people are already coming to Saint James the Less, seeking ministry there, but on the other side of the street.

the building isn’t the endIn the church, especially in a place as committed to worship as Saint Mark’s, we often think that Christian ministry must be-gin and end in a church building, gathered at an altar, on a Sun-day, in the morning, doing the types of things that congregations normally do: celebrating the Eucharist, singing hymns, teaching Sunday School, listening to sermons (or day-dreaming through them), and so on. If you want to do the work of the Gospel and you already have a church standing there, then you know what to do: get services going, crank up the usual Sunday machinery, build a community that meets once a week, and point it toward Easter.

But at Saint James the Less, we suspected (and have been repeat-edly assured that our suspicion is on track) that a different ap-proach is called for. A school, occupying the building across the street from the church, seemed to be the thing to build up, the thing the community was saying it needed, the way the Gospel would be proclaimed and heard.

This message came through to us, loud and clear, last June when we organized City Camp with the diocesan Youth Ministry of-fice. Kids from all over the neighborhood and beyond spent a week at Saint James the Less reading, learning, playing, eating, drawing, praying, falling down, getting up, the way kids do.

on Easter Day there have been a lot of hours clocked in church at Saint Mark’s over the course of the previous week. But Father Ashcroft and I have been going to our mission church, Saint James the Less, each Sunday at 5pm to say Mass or Eve-ning Prayer, depending on who shows up. Normally it’s a hand-ful — just five or six; eight would be a crowd — most from Saint Mark’s, one or two from the neighborhood. The school crossing-guard often comes. But on Easter, I told Father Ashcroft to take the afternoon off; I would go alone, with my dogs; I didn’t ex-pect anyone to show up. And I was right. Baxter and Ozzie and I sat in the cool, dark church and said Evening Prayer together.

The other side of the streetI’d forgotten that the local neighborhood association had asked to hold an Easter egg hunt on the property, on the other side of the street from the church. If you’ve not been to Saint James the Less, you may not realize that it sits, surrounded by its cemetery, on one side of Clearfield Street, with the Parish House (where we hope to open a school) and Rectory on the other side.

It was on that side of the street where I noticed all the cars, and noise, and the gates open, when I pulled over into the drive-way to the church. After I had locked up, I walked across the street with the dogs. A small crowd of families and children with painted faces toting bags with treats was milling about as events

were winding down. A popcorn machine was being packed up, tables folded, and a generally happy, Easter-y feeling filled the air. I said hello to some of the neigh-bors I’ve gotten to know and some of the kids who knew Baxter from last sum-

mer met Ozzie for the first time. I was glad to have ended my Easter with this visit.

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locked gates and small facesThe week after City Camp, when a bunch of us were still around cleaning up, but the gates to that side of the street were locked again, from time to time we’d hear them rattle, and go over to find a small face peering up through the bars asking if there’d be camp today or if a friend could be found there. It felt pretty rot-ten that the answer was ‘No’ and that the gates stayed locked. At the next neighborhood community meeting we heard two ques-tions repeatedly: Why wasn’t City Camp longer? And when were we going to open that school we have been talking about?

Opening a school is a big project. A school for low-income stu-dents that will be financed by contributions is an even bigger one. Over the past year or so, an Advisory Board has been meeting to lay the groundwork for this proj-ect and to get fundrais-ing started. We have now raised just over $200,000, thanks primarily to the generosity of a couple of people: Audrey Evans and Joel Greenberg, but also to a small group of dedi-cated supporters.

On the strength of this fundraising, we have been searching for someone to take on this project full-time, since it requires more effort, time, and energy now than I can spare. I hope that soon we will be ap-pointing someone who will take on the day-to-day work of pre-paring for the opening of the school. That person will have my support, and the support of an expanding board, but will free

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me from the responsibility of serving as the principal manager of this process and its fundraising. There will also be support from the Nativity Miguel Network of schools with which we have af-filiated.

With God’s grace, a school will open in Fall 2011, admitting kids into small classes of the fifth and maybe the sixth grades. The Vestry and I expect to be able to provide leadership and support to the school for a short while, but it is our hope and expectation that after the first couple of years the school will be independent of Saint Mark’s. Once that independence is gained, I hope Saint Mark’s will continue to be a strong supporter of the mission, as we are able.

linked in mission and ministrySaint Mark’s and Saint James the Less were linked at the time of our separate foundings, a year apart from each other. Some of the same people were involved in the building of both church-es; any number of our founders and benefactors are buried in the cemetery there; both parishes were at the forefront of the Oxford Movement in this country. It’s fitting that we are now linked in our mission.

And although I am hesitant to say it, it may be a matter of some pride for Saint Mark’s that at a time of confusion and discord in the church, we have seen a great jewel, available for the ministry of the Gospel, which was sitting empty, untended, and unused, until we determined to find a way to use that jewel for the build-ing up of God’s kingdom.

This summer, City Camp will be held at Saint James the Less again. I expect that opening up those gates for a week or more will help us to see and hear how it is that God is calling us to keep those gates open every day of the year.


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wonderful sermons. He also answered soap opera casting calls for priests. And al-ways got the job.

When I married John Tomme in 1962, we moved to Chicago. The Tomme fam-ily was Roman Catholic. We had the kids baptized, enrolled them in Saint Greg-ory’s School, and attended Saint Greg-ory’s church. I took instruction (maybe because Father Kline looked like Mont-gomery Clift) but it didn’t take. When that marriage broke up, Michael, Jolie, and I moved back to New York, where I worked on Show magazine until I got a call from another U of I friend, Dick Buford, who was Executive Director of the City Planning Commission under Mayor John Lindsay. He asked me to be his secretary. When Lindsay decided not to run again, Dick and I left City Planning. In 1972, I moved to Philadelphia to work for Van Arkel and Moss, a redevelopment firm. But by 1980, my eyesight was so impaired that I had to have cataract surgery.

The day I returned to work, I ran into a friend who was a member of Saint Mark’s. She asked if I’d like to go to noon mass to thank God for my successful eye surgery. Having not been able to see well for so long, going into Saint Mark’s was an awe-some visual experience. I started attend-ing regularly and shortly was confirmed. I sang in the Choir, was head of the Altar Guild, and taught Sunday School. Charles Moore was the rector. One of the innova-tive things he did was to offer a course, Education for Ministry, that’s also taught

in seminaries. I took the course. But it caused me to take a hard look at my be-liefs. I decided I had some issues and I became unchurched. During that time, my son became a priest in the Episcopal Church! And I decided to make a living as a writer — I wrote about religion. Eventu-ally I realized that if I had church issues, they were best worked out while going to church. I came back to Saint Mark’s in June 2008.

Favorite aspect of the parish The music and liturgy.

describe the parish to a stranger It’s God-centered, fun, and beautiful.

Greatest challenge for the parish Attracting young families, then dealing with the changes and squalling babies.

Last book read Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, by Sharon Begley

Hymn you’d take to a desert island When Morning Gilds the Skies

Three people, living or dead, you’d bring on a road trip Ugh! re road trips.

What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt? Model maker for architects.

What would you like to hear God say when you pass through the Pearly Gates? We have a spot for you on our Comedy Channel.

I was born and raised in Paxton, a farming community in central Illinois. Every Sun-day was spent in the Methodist church. My mom was Choir Director. Dad was Super-intendent of the Sunday school. And I was head of the Methodist Youth Fellowship.

Mom gave piano lessons. When it was discovered in high school that I had a sing-ing voice, she was ecstatic. Overnight she turned into a stage-mother. Which was okay by me. I loved being in the spotlight and she was the best accompanist a singer could have. In 1949, I went to the Uni-versity of Illinois, starred in all their op-era productions, and mom was sure I was headed for the Met. Only problem was, I fell in love with an artist, Ron Gorchov, and we married. In 1953, three months af-ter our son Michael was born, we did go to New York and I did do one off-Broadway opera. But the task of keeping food on the table fell to me, and I wasn’t all that keen on the opera biz anyway.

Our daughter Jolie was born in 1958. A couple of years later Ron and I broke up. A friend from the U of I got me a job as Ex-ecutive Secretary at The Actors Studio. I was living on East 73rd Street at the time. One of the Studio’s founders, Elia Kazan, lived on East 72nd and his good friend and next-door neighbor, Sidney Lanier, was the curate at Saint Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue. Sidney’s cousin was Thomas Lanier Williams (Tennessee) — and Ten-nessee was Kazan’s favorite playwright.

My kids and I started going to Saint Thomas to hear Sidney preach. He gave

Recently, I goofed up a Lion’s Mark interview date. Ergo, this month I’m interviewing myself.

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northern woods of Minnesota. Being a “parish priest” carries with it a set role and social position. I know where I fit in the neighborhood, the city, the deanery and the diocese, despite the fact that the so-cial standing of the priesthood has changed drastically in the past few hundred years. Being a parish priest is a known quantity, but at times that “known quantity” has felt slightly uncomfortable, as if I was trying to squeeze myself into a mold that didn’t quite fit my personality and being.

Being a priest in Alaska, the deserts of China, or the north woods is far more

complicated. What are the duties and responsibilities? How is priesthood ex-pressed when there is no parish, no build-ing, no social standing, no uniform to prove to people on the street who I am? What does it mean to be a priest and a carpenter or a teacher or whatever I end up doing to pay the bills in Grand Marais, Minnesota?

This is a question that the Church in-creasingly will need to deal with. The reality of denominational decline, of ur-banization, of the exponentially increasing costs of clerical salaries and health care, all mean that many parishes are struggling or will struggle in the next few years to support a priest. Priests will need to wear multiple caps in many places.

I hope this coming time in my life be-comes an exploration of priesthood that is primarily internal, an exploration of what my priesthood means, of how God is call-ing me to live this life, and in what direc-tions the traditional understanding of priesthood might need to change in the years to come.

I’ve always been struck by this passage from de Chardin: “Since once again, Lord — though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia — I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself; I, your priest, will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labours and sufferings of the world.”

Saint Mark’s has formed me sacramen-tally, in the discipline of standing at the al-tar, day in and day out, and having a sense of what it means to offer the world flowing

by our doors up to God. Because priest-hood is a “walking sacrament,” we go out into the world in cassock or cowboy boots and offer again and again to God every-thing that is, whether at the high altar at Saint Mark’s, Locust Street, in the steppes of Asia, or even in the forests and lakes of northern Minnesota.

Although in Minnesota I won’t express my priesthood traditionally, these two years have given me the roots to have that flex-ibility, to explore what it means to be a priest when that is not my primary job. I am immensely grateful for that.

on 11th Street a few weeks ago, you’d have seen the Curate of Saint Mark’s in cleri-cals, jeans, and snake skin cowboy boots. Not normal attire for me, but I was on my way to a fund-raiser for the flood victims in Tennessee, and somehow cowboy boots had entered into the equation.

I was secretly amused by the looks that I got. While wearing a clerical collar cre-ates a certain amount of interest, begging, or strange looks generally, something about the jeans and cowboy boots re-ally seemed to throw people.That got me thinking about things like uniforms and

clerical collars, and the strange settings in which ordained people find themselves in the world. I’m fascinated by specific brand of wandering Jesuits from a few genera-tions ago. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is a famous example, but there are others. Father Bernard Hubbard, like de Char-din, was a scientist and a priest, and spent a vast part of his life in the Alaska wilder-ness. Not content to carry a pack with all his camping supplies and food, Hubbard also brought along all the necessities for daily mass. A wonderful image shows him saying mass with several students in the midst of the Alaskan wilderness; he’s obvi-ously been packing an alb and chasuble.

I’ve been thinking about what it means to carry my priesthood with me into the

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Outreach

The Saturday Soup Bowl continues to feed hungry and homeless people every Saturday in the summer. We always need folks to make soup (recipes on the parish website) and to help serve on Saturdays from 7am to 9am.

City Camp 2010 is June 26 – July 3 at Saint James the Less. This exercise in building community brings kids from around the diocese together for a week of urban mis-sion work: helping to improve the neigh-borhood, working on one of the buildings at Saint James the Less, and running Vaca-tion Bible School for kids from the neigh-borhood. We need adult volunteers to help in the following ways:

• Registration, M-F in the morning, and manning the front desk throughout the day • Serving breakfast and lunch (M=[]]]]) • Preparing and serving dinners • Supervision and reading for morning ses-sions (M-F) • Supervising community outreach projects • Assisting in cottage renovations

If you have a day or even a half day to help, please do. Help make this community thrive! Saint James the Less is located at 3227 West Clearfield Street in North Phil-adelphia, just below East Falls. A van will leave Saint Mark’s every day at 8.15am and return at 5pm.

Buildings and Properties

A visit to Saint James Street, along the back side of the Parish House and Rec-tory, will reveal lots of scaffolding that’s been erected for the rehabilitation of the

brownstone on that side of those two buildings. This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from Partners for Sacred Places and is being carried out by Milner + Carr Conservation. The brownstone throughout our buildings needs much re-pair and conservation and this is the first step in accomplishing the long-term goal of rehabilitating all the buildings’ exteriors.

CHristian formation

Regular Sunday morning Christian For-mation for children and adults is on hiatus during the summer months. We return to a regular schedule after Labor Day.

Wednesday Evening Bible Study

June 30 • Summer session 1 Lesser-known women of the Bible July 21 • Summer session 2 Lesser-known women, part 2 August 11 Summer session 3 Lesser-known women, part 3

community

Saying goodbye to Father Ashcroft On Thursday, 17 June, at 7pm at the Rectory, come express your love and good wishes to Andrew before he heads out for the next chapter of his ministry. There’ll be drinks and something to nibble on.

Congratulations! Tabitha Nemeroff gradu-ated from Trinity High School on 5 June and will attend the George Washington University in Washington DC this autumn.

Playgroup for children and caregivers One of the exciting uses of our facilities is the playgroup for children and caregiv-ers that meets here on Wednesdays from 9am to 11am and Thursdays from 2pm to 4pm, either in the library or the garden,

if the weather is nice. We welcome chil-dren from our parish family and beyond, so please spread the word!

Saint Mark’s Square in Philadelphia? (By Edward Lonergan) Venice, it seems, has nothing on Philly. We have our own Saint Mark’s Square. Recently, while browsing through an old booklet of his-toric points in Philadelphia, I came across a reference to a Saint Mark’s Square. This I had to track down. There is indeed such a place — and a street sign to prove it. It’s even historically registered. It’s not quite

a square, but rather a small street in a city with many tiny streets,

some of them quite charming. This one is a

gem of Victorian vintage row homes. If you stroll

down it, as I did, you may even spot a Saint Mark’s

Lion emblem or two. And just where is this place located? Here’s a clue: It lies hard by what used to be the Philadelphia Divinity School. Seek and ye shall find!

Stewardship

The Stewardship Committee invites you to connect to a ministry in the church this summer. There’s no better way to become a part of Saint Mark’s than through service to others and to one another in ministry.The summer offers many opportunities, including Soup Kitchen and City Camp. We ask parishioners to gather stories for us, stories of personal growth and faith and service. See The Last Word for more.

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Worship and music

The Reverend Violet Little On 27 June at 11am, Pastor Violet Little, who runs the Welcome Center and the Welcome Church, will preach at the High Mass. Saint Mark’s provides ongoing support for these important ministries to homeless people. Violet’s message is important to hear — and will be inspiring.

Remember all summer long there are Sunday masses at 8am and 9am. If you have plans for the day, like going to the shore or just hanging out, you can still make it to church and be on with your plans while the morning is still young!

Sumer choir! This call goes out to all members of the parish interested in par-ticipating in a summer choir project. Who? Anyone with some minimal musi-cal reading ability. When? Sunday morn-ings through the summer in the choir room at 10am. What? Our responsibility is to chant the psalm and alleluia verse. If there’s enough of a quorum, we’ll prepare a short anthem. This is a wonderful oppor-tunity to practice your chanting or if you live the jet-set life, a chance to keep up your singing skills! Again, please just show up on Sunday mornings at 10am or email [email protected] when you might be available to sing!

The Choir will be spending time in re-cording sessions during June to produce a CD that will be available for Christmas.

The Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, 15 August, falls on a Sunday this year, and we will observe it in style on that day. If you can, please be here to add your voice to God’s praise.

Eight ministry areas of the parish

ministriesAn interview with the new Assistant Or-ganist, Tom Sheehan

Tell us a little about yourself. I’m from the Hudson Val-ley in New York state, a town called Red Hook. I went to the local public schools and grew up interested

in music as long as I can remember. My grandfather was my first piano teacher un-til age 5, when I started taking professional lessons. I’ve been playing in some way ever since. I’ve been involved in a lot of music groups at school, including music theater and orchestras, playing trombone!

What was your first encounter with the organ? It was at Saint Christopher’s Roman Catholic Church in my neighborhood. It had an aw-ful electronic instrument, but I loved the sound of it at the time. My first encounter with a pipe organ was an interfaith music convention around age 5, when I heard the organ at the Vassar College Chapel. I’m told I was so excited about it that it was all I would talk about after the concert.

Which had the biggest impact on your life: A book? A piece of music? A place you’ve visiteds? I’ll go with a piece of music: the Duru-flé Requiem. I learned about the piece on arriving at Westminster Choir College four years ago and immediately fell in love with it. In fact, it was my introduction to serious choral music and that definitely changed my opinions about what choirs could and should do.

If you could be anything other than a musician, what would you be? I always loved math and science at school and I think those disci-plines exercise a part of my brain that I really love to use. They’re not nearly as re-warding for me as music, but I’d enjoy do-ing something with them if music weren’t an option. It would have to be something other than a desk job, though. The feel-ing of personal freedom really drove me to a career in music in the first place, rather than just music as a hobby.

What are you looking forward to the most about working at Saint Mark’s? A more intimate style of worship. The Anglo-Catholic tra-dition has always appealed to me, having been raised in the Roman Catholic faith. And the choir at Saint Mark’s is fantastic! I’ll really enjoy working with the wonder-ful staff and clergy, who have been so wel-coming and friendly to me. And since the organ at my previous church was a digital instrument, it will be really great to be able to use the fabulous Saint Mark’s organ.

Finances

It’s important to continue to pay your pledge throughout the summer months. It’s easy to forget and fall behind, but it helps everyone if you stay up to date.Thanks!

Communications

This issue of The Lion’s Mark covers events from mid-June into early summer. We won’t publish in July, but will return in August, to prepare everyone for home-coming and the programming year ahead.

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I just returned from a week in Rome. I’ll skip everything that can be said about Rome that’s already been said. All I’ll share with you is the great fascination I developed learning how to cross the street at the Piazza Venizia outside of the Victor Eman-uel Monument.

are you ready?My friend, a Canadian ex-pat living in Rome for the last 20 years, coached me before we crossed the eight-plus lanes of traf-fic. “Just step into the street and walk. Do not stop. Do not look to the left or right. Do not speed up or slow down or adjust your gait in any way. Just walk to the other side.”

“Really? Just walk to the other side?” Cars, bus-es, and trucks were a torrent of metal rapids. Does my Blue Cross card work in Rome, I won-dered? “Ready,” he asked? I nodded and followed him onto the cobblestone, fixing my gaze on the back of his head, remembering: Do not stop, do not look to the left or right, do not speed up or slow down or adjust your gait in any way.

in the media of the viaA few steps in, too far to retreat and nowhere near the other side, I felt compressed air off the front of a twelve-wheeler changing the air pressure against my skin and I turned my head toward the beast and hesitated. A miniature bedlam ensued.

The twelve wheeler, which had already adjusted its course around me (along with a deluge of other driver) at my hesitation, buckled. The twelve wheeler jolted, a car screeched to a halt behind it, hands started flying and horns blowing. Tourist! My friend laughed on the other side of the piazza.

On my next try, I got it right. I did not hesitate. I just walked into the street calmly. I didn’t stop, look about or adjust my gait. It was amazing! The traffic simply parted. It was like swimming calmly through a school of tame white sharks.

Now good social science begs that we ask this question: Was the experience repeatable? Did my friend’s advice work every time? And the answer is, yes. At every seemingly uncompromising crosswalk, it worked. It is the Roman custom that it works!

saint mark’s in romaI thought of many of you while I was in Rome, as I admired an-cient vestments at San Giovanni Laterano or while walking through the dust of the neglected Santo Stephano Rotundo, or marveling at Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. But I thought of our rector, Sean Mullen, when I crossed the Piazza Venizia out-

side the Victor Emanuel Monument.

Really, Sean, really? You want us to serve soup every Saturday to the poor? Really? You want us to open a school . . . where? In North Phila-delphia? Really? You want us to raise — how much money? Really? And how are we to do this?

Well, it’s quite simple. Just start walking. Do not stop. Do not look to the left or right. Do not speed up or slow down or adjust your gait in any way. Just walk to the other side. And it works every time. At every seemingly uncompromising crosswalk, it works. Because it is our custom.

step into the crosswalkSaint Mark’s gives us many opportunities to step into the crosswalk this summer. City Camp

approaches. The poor are hungry every day. Our buildings con-tinue battling the elements. Even as the mulch is laid in our gar-dens, the weeds find their way to the top soil. There is work to be done.

The stewardship committee of Saint Mark’s asks this of you: Let your summer have at least one labor of love aimed your church’s way. Gather a story for us, a story of growth and faith and ser-vice. We’ll be together in the autumn months sharing those sto-ries at a series of at-home suppers and we want you all — and your stories — to be there.

— Ken Pearlstein

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY


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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

EVELYN UNDERHILL JOSEPH BUTLER, BISHOP

BERNARD MIZEKI, MARTYR

BASIL THE GREAT

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The REGULAR SCHEDULE of SERVICES at Saint Mark’s Church

Sundays 8 am, Low Mass, Rite I 9 am, Sung Mass Rite II10 am, Christian Formation for all ages11 am, Choral High Mass

Monday through Friday7.30 am, Low Mass9am, Morning Prayer12.10pm, Low Mass5.30 pm, Evening Prayer

Saturday9:30am, Confessions (Lady Chapel)10am, Low Mass10:30am, Holy Rosary

ALBAN, FIRST MARTYR OF BRITAIN

NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

IRENAEUS, BISHOP OF LYONS

SAINT PETER & SAINT PAUL, APOSTLES

WILLIAM WHITE, BISHOP OF PENNSYLVANIA

Vestry meeting

Parish Office closed for Fourth of July

CITY CAMP begins

CITY CAMP ends

Today through 6 July Food Cupboard closed

Guest Preacher: The Revd Violet Little

Food Cupboard reopens

The Monthly Newsletter of Saint Mark’s Church, PhiladelphiaLion’s Mark

All of us here at The Lion’s Mark — managing editor and designer Cynthia McFarland, People in the Pew interviewer Joy Tomme, and article chasers-down and text rounders-up extraordinaire Megan Gallagher and John Bilinski — hope you’re enjoying the new format and style of the Saint Mark’s parish newsletter.

If you have an idea for an article, considering writing! Want to see more news about _____? Let us know! Enjoy copy edit-ing and proofreading? We’d be happy to have you assist. Con-tact Megan Gallagher at [email protected] with your ideas. Or raise your hand in an email to her and let us know if you’d like to help.

We’ll see you in the autumn. Meanwhile, The Lion Sleeps This Summer. (Cue doo-wop music.)

Joy Tomme

John Bilinski

Megan Gallagher

Cynthia McFarland

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