Watch & Listen

The music staff of the Cathedral brings extraordinary live music to your home every Tuesday at 6 pm. This week, Artist in Residence David Briggs will perform music by Jean Langlais and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as his own compositions.

Audre Lorde is the 2020 inductee to the American Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In Poets Corner tradition, a memorial stone carved with Lorde’s dates and a quotation from her poem “A Litany for Survival” has been laid in the Cathedral, placing Lorde amongst her fellow American literary giants. The Cathedral celebrated the life and works of Audre Lorde, poet, essayist, feminist, educator and activist, with a virtual induction ceremony on Thursday, February 18. Readers and participants include members of Lorde’s family and fellow poets including Dante Micheaux, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Martha Collins, Cathedral Poet in Residence Marie Howe, United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, and more. Lorde’s writings are both deeply personal and committed to a liberatory political vision. Her poems and essays openly discuss her lesbianism, Blackness, motherhood, cancer diagnoses, and many other facets of her life, exploding notions of both white male dominance and cultural homogeny within progressive social movements. These many layers of selfhood, expressed through lyrical writings both prose and poetic, celebrate difference, inviting readers to draw upon their own personal journeys to add to the shared fight for justice and community.

In this Lenten Pilgrimage video, learn about how Holy Week connects to the rest of the Cathedral's mission and programming. Canon Molloy guides viewers through the different rituals of Holy Week and their meanings, and provides an overview of other Holy seasons in the Christian calendar.

In this Lenten Pilgrimage video, learn about how rituals -- like baptism, funerals, holidays, and more -- define our lives. We place significance and meaning in where these rituals take place, who participates in them, and the symbols that represent such events.

On this virtual pilgrimage, learn about how the life and passion of Jesus Christ is represented in the stone, glass, and bronze of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. How are the biblical events of Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter depicted?