
WHAT’S ON!
Welcome to the ‘What’s On at St John’s Cathedral’ page. Here you will find what is on this week, coming up, concert information and much more.
THIS WEEK AT ST JOHN’S
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English Conversation Group
Mondays
2-3pm
Darnell Room
Zoom Coffee on Tuesdays
10.30-11.30am
(Zoom link below)
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Take a break, have a coffee (or other preferred cuppa) and chat online with various members of the extended Cathedral community. Relax, bring your beverage and be welcomed into the conversation on Tuesdays – any time between 10.30am and 11.30am.
Use this Zoom link: (video/audio) or your phone – (07) 3185 3730, enter Meeting ID: 885 952 546#, Passcode: 399344# and then Participant ID: #.
Christian Meditation
Tuesdays
6.45-7.30pm
Cathedral & zoom
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Our Cathedral offers a weekly Christian meditation group on Tuesday evenings from 6.45 to 7.30pm. The meditation group is always open to new members. A simple meal of soup and bread is available in St Martin’s House from 5.30pm.
The meditation group meets in the Cathedral as well as by Zoom. To join via Zoom, use either this Zoom link or your phone – (07) 3185 3730, enter Meeting ID: 278 417 931#, Passcode: 042853# and then Participant ID: #.
Further information: Please contact The Rev’d Canon Julia Van Den Bos by email (jvandenbos@stjohnscathedral.com.au) or via the Cathedral office.
Why Christian Meditation?
Meditation is a universal spiritual wisdom and a practice found at the core of all the great religious traditions, leading from the mind to the heart. It is a way of simplicity, silence and stillness. It can be practised by anyone, wherever you are on your life’s journey. It is only necessary to be clear about the practice and then to begin – and to keep on beginning.
In Christianity this tradition of contemplation, the prayer of the heart or ‘apophatic prayer’, became marginalised and often even sometimes suspect. But in recent times a major recovery of the contemplative dimension of Christian faith – and prayer – has been happening. This is transforming the different faces of the Church and revealing the way the Gospel integrates the mystical and the social.
Central to this process now is the rediscovery of how to pray in this dimension and at this depth: finding a practice of meditation in the Christian tradition. The World Community teaches a practice derived from the Gospel teaching of Jesus and the advice of early Christian monks. The Desert Fathers and Mothers teach a Christian spirituality of powerful relevance for those today who want to live their discipleship to Jesus in a radical and simple way.
Information about Christian meditation is available at wccm.org/content/what-meditation.
Coffee on Wednesdays (COWs)
10am-2pm (Cathedral)
Good coffee, good food, great conversations!
Chair Yoga
Wednesdays
11am-12noon (Darnell Room)
Deanery Day
Speaker: The Rev’d Dr Ann Solari
Thursday, 10 July 2025 from 9.45am
(Darnell Room)
(2nd Thursday in the month)
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The Cathedral MU Branch will be hosting a Deanery Day in the Darnell Room on Thursday 10th July.
We have been asked to host the day as we are the newest branch in the Deanery.
Morning Tea will be supplied by the Cathedral Branch.
Lunch is BYO, but coffee/tea will be available at lunch time.
Deanery Days are when all branches in a Deanery come together for Fellowship.
There generally are 2 days per year.
There are 8 branches in Brisbane North East Deanery.
There is always a guest speaker, who on 10th July, is The Rev’d Dr Ann Solari.
We open and finish with prayer and then stay on for lunch.
Cathedral AMUA Branch
Anglican Mothers Union Australia (AMUA) is part of a worldwide fellowship of Christians united in prayer, worship and service.
AMUA Vision: a world where God’s love is known through loving, respectful and flourishing relationships.
AMUA Aim: to demonstrate the Christian faith in action by the transformation of communities worldwide through the nurture of family.
Membership is available for all [women and men] who have been baptised. If you are not yet a member and would like to find out more, please do get in contact.
The Cathedral Branch usually meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month in the Cathedral at 9.45am for coffee and the gathering starts at 10am.
AMUA branches will again celebrate Mothering Sunday and invite parishioners to donate to our special collection to support Mothers Union work. AMUA has accepted the invitation from Mary Sumner House to support MU’s Overseas Target Program, which will expand literacy courses in the Solomon Islands.
AMUA Cathedral Branch Projects:
Project – Hope in a Suitcase: Hope in a Suitcase is for children going into Foster Care under the umbrella of Foster Care Qld. Anglicare SQ are also involved. When a child goes to a foster parent, they are given their own little suitcase or backpack filled with their own special things, e.g. teen activities, Uno cards, puzzles, games, colouring books and pencils. Babies also go into foster care and need baby wipes, baby toys, throw rugs etc.
Project – Zephyr Education: Zephyr Education provides school needs for children who change schools because of domestic violence. Items include lunch boxes and water bottles; children’s underwear (girls and boys all ages).
Project – BOOKS4PNGKIDS: please bring new and used books for children aged 0-14 years old – early readers (numbers, alphabets, picture books, animals and cardboard books), primary school fiction and non-fiction, basic school supplies, Bibles.
For further information or to ask a question, please contact Mary de Vries viareception@stjohnscathedral.com.au or through the Cathedral Office.
Kids @ St Johns
Sundays
9.30am
in person during the Choral Eucharist
and online via our Facebook & YouTube Channel (recorded and available from Saturday 9.30am)
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Children’s Ministry
Children are very much part of our family and the children’s area in the Cathedral is available whenever the Cathedral is open.
Children’s ministry is offered in the Cathedral on Sundays during the 9.30am service and online (recorded and available from Saturday mornings at 9.30am).
The videos appear on the Cathedral’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel.
2nd & 4th Saturdays
10-11am (Darnell Room)
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2nd and 4th Saturdays – 10am to 11am
Mainly Music is designed for children aged 0 to 5 years, but older children may join in. Friends, parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles are welcome. Mainly Music is a community connection initiative.
Each Mainly Music session includes play time, singing and dancing time, and refreshments time.
Mainly Music is held in the Darnell Room, St Martin’s House. Parking is available.
For more information, see Hannah Dillingham or Ken Willett or contact them through the Cathedral office: phone – (07) 3835 2222; email – cathedral@stjohnscathedral.com.au.
The Journey 2025: God’s story, your story, my story.
Exploring the art of storytelling as a way to discern God’s call on our lives.
Sundays (on zoom)
4-5pm
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Who is The Journey for?
Those who want to take stock of their lives using a spiritual focus; Those considering baptism for themselves or for their children; Those considering confirmation;
Those who want to become an Anglican;
Those wanting to discern some future direction for their life; Those interested in unpacking the faith.
What is the process?
The Christian faith is a way of life. Entering into a way of life requires reflection. Christians are people who seek to live out the way of love. We seek to follow Jesus who, in his own life, demonstrated that we were made by God, who is love, for love. God’s love gives us the energy to love in turn. Since we are made for love, we each have a purpose. The Journey exists to enable people to discover what this truth means for them. The process aims to give people the space to test and then find their own way into this way of life. It takes what has happened in life to this point seriously. We believe that by reflecting on our life-story we discover how God has been at work in our lives since before we were born, and also identify ways in which we, as unique people, are to respond to this. We discover the way in which God’s love for us can shape our relationships, inform our motives, and help us find deep happiness.
How does it work?
By allowing those involved to ask questions, to talk over issues, share insights and to learn about specific areas that interest them. This takes place within small groups.
Why this way?
We learn most effectively when we are seeking answers to questions that matter to us.
Attending via Zoom: Use either this Zoom link (video/audio) or your phone – 07 3185 3730, enter Meeting ID: 894 0003 0380#, Passcode: 885493# and then Participant ID: #.
For more information please contact:
The Dean, Peter Catt, pcatt@stjohnscathedral.com.au or phone 3835 2239.
COMING UP
Saints on a Mission
Fridays
10.30-12noon
Zoom only
NOT ON THIS WEEK (11TH JULY)
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SAINTS ON A MISSION (on Zoom only)
Blair Martin (Meanjin/Brisbane) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Time: 10:30 Brisbane
Every week on Friday
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86022109248…
Passcode: 904552
Christian Art Exhibition in Cathedral
‘Waiting for the Miracle’
(2-30 July 2025)
Meet the Artist – Olga Bakhtina
Sunday, 20 July 2025
Following the 9.30am Eucharist
Wine Before Breakfast
First Friday in the month
7-8.30am
Zoom only
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Labyrinth Walk
First Sunday in the Month
Sunday, 3 August 2025
from 11.15am
In person and online
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The path is always new, because,
as a spiritual discipline, the labyrinth
is a path of contemplation,
reflection, prayer …
Beneath the surface, walking the labyrinth
is a profound discipline in listening,
in active silence, in finding movement
and rhythm in the stillneses underneath
and in between everyday’s noise.
Walking the labyrinth is an exercise
in finding the voice speaking in whispers
underneath the whirlwind of sound.
~ Travis Scholl, “Walking the Labyrinth –
A Place to Pray and Seek God” p.17, IVP Books, 2014
Mystics, Theologians & God-Botherers
1st Sunday in the Month
Sunday, 3 August 2025
6-8pm
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This event will be held ‘in person’ in the Cathedral, over YouTube and Zoom. Choral Evensong will be ‘in person’ at 6pm in the Cathedral and will also be accessible on our YouTube channel.
As part of Evensong, ………………….. will talk about ………………………
From about 7.10pm we join together in person in the Cathedral or via Zoom to share a discussion with …………………….. over refreshments. All are welcome to join us.
To join via Zoom, use either this Zoom link (video/audio) or your phone – (07) 3185 3730, enter Meeting ID: 768 010 419#, Passcode: 267366# and then Participant ID: #.
Wasting Time With God
1st Wednesday in the month
Wednesday, 6 August 2025
9.30am
(Darnell Room)
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Event Info: This event will be held in person and on Zoom and will begin with a short prayer service at 9.30am. ………………………. presentation and discussion will follow at 9.40am until 10.30am when the session will end with worship and then morning tea from 10.35am.
To join via Zoom, use either this Zoom link (video/audio) or your phone – 07 3185 3730, enter Meeting ID: 823 3447 0652#, Passcode: 303180# and then Participant ID: #.
Organ Relaunch
Sunday, 10 August 2025
6pm Festal Evensong
(followed by refreshments)
Everyone is most welcome to attend the relaunch of our 108-year-old Norman and Beard Organ following the first phase of its long-awaited refurbishment.
Winter Community Dinner in Cathedral
New night – Monday!
Monday, 11 August 2025
6.30pm
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Please join us for a Winter Community Dinner in our beautiful Cathedral!
There is no cost for the dinner; financial contributions are welcome and will be donated to The Romero Centre.
Please BYO drinks.
Please register for the dinner by Sunday, 10 August:
with Judy Fay community@stjohnscathedral.com.au
or via Reception – phone (07) 3835 2222
or sign-up sheet at the back of the Cathedral from Sunday, 20 July.
Please advise of any special dietary requirements.
All welcome!
CONCERTS
St John’s Cathedral
FREE! MORNING CONCERT SERIES 2025
Next Concert
Thursday, 7 August 2025 at 11am
Queensland Conservatorium:
Composition
Click here for 2025 concert schedule
Candlelight Concerts
Music in a whole new light!
GENERAL
Sustainability Roadmap Workshop
Friday, 25 July 2025
10am-1.30pm
(LOCATION: HENDRA)
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From the Pacific –
From the Torres Strait Island of Saibai – Aunty Dr Rose Elu
The Dean of Brisbane –
ACSQ Justice Enabler –
AMUA Social Issues and
Morning tea, coffee and tea will be provided
Register for catering purposes by: Monday 21 July 2025
Link: https://sustainabilityworkshop.eventbrite.com.au
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Laying on of Hands with Anointing (Healing Ministry)
Following the example of Jesus, and his explicit instructions to his disciples, the ministry of healing for any kind of disease or distress is an integral part of the proclamation and application of the Gospel of compassion. It is administered by the “Laying on of Hands with Anointing” by a priest gently touching the head or shoulders of the person in need. No questions are asked although a person may, if they wish, give their name or a brief description of their concern. It is perfectly acceptable, even encouraged, to receive this ministry on behalf of another who cannot be present.
The Ministry of Laying on of Hands with Anointing is available during the 9.30am Choral Eucharist on the first Sunday of the month. Those seeking the laying on of hands with anointing are invited to make their way to The Oratory after receiving communion.
The laying on of hands with anointing is also available by appointment; please speak with one of the clergy if you are seeking this.
Click to read about 'Spiritual Direction'
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction is about making a space for God in your life. Contrary to the name, Spiritual Direction is not about being ‘directed’; it is being encouraged to draw closer to God in a more conscious experience of God’s presence, grace, and love in your daily life.
In the midst of life we often find it difficult to notice God’s action within it. And yet we yearn to be able to discern the presence and the voice of God at a deeper level. In the practice of Spiritual Direction you are given the time and space to reflect on the experiences of your daily living, and as this contemplation takes place, you begin to discern God’s invitations and the work God is doing in your life.
Click here to read: ‘What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction sessions are now available at the Cathedral. To find out more, please contact the Cathedral Reception at St Martin’s House on (07) 3835 2222 during business hours.