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A Message from the Dean on January 20, 2025.

The Cathedral mourns the loss of the Very Reverend Harry Pritchett, the eighth Dean of the Cathedral. Dean Pritchett served from 1997 until 2001.

Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of AdventBy The Very Reverend Patrick Malloy, Dean My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked w...

Reflection for the Third Sunday of AdventBy The Reverend Canon Steven Lee, Vicar Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to ever...

Reflection for the Second Sunday of AdventBy The Reverend Canon Eva Suarez “For he is like refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; he will sit as a refiner...

Reflection for the First Sunday of AdventBy The Very Reverend Patrick Malloy, Dean “Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these...

Read an interview with Tom Fedorek, Senior Guide in the Public Education and Visitor Services department at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as we celebrate his 40 yea...

One of the Cathedral’s most important artists has died. Word has come from the family of Simon Verity, the principal carver of the Portal of Paradise, that he died Su...

Yesterday, the bishops of The Episcopal Church, including our own bishops, elected the Right Reverend Sean Rowe to replace Bishop Michael Curry upon his retirement as Presi...

A Reflection from a Chaperone who attended Nightwatch in March 2024.

Hold Vigil with Asylum Seekers this Holy Week

“God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” — Luke 18:13b

Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; do not be jealous of those who do wrong. — Psalm 37:1

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?” — Ezekiel 18:25

I have learned to be content with whatever I have. — Philippians 4:11b

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited...

Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with a try of joy. — Psalm 47:1

When some Midianite traders passed by, his brothers drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. — Genesis...

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing: to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fr...

When Jesus heard this, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.&rd...