News and Events

On Saturday, June 2, the Cathedral will host the election of an additional Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Texas. Delegates are expected to begin arriving about 8 a.m. There will be an opening Eucharist at 9 a.m., and the nominating speeches will begin by 9:30 a.m. We can use a lot of help [read more…]

About 300 people attend Sunday Eucharist every week at the Lord of the Streets Episcopal Church, which ministers to the homeless and to those in crisis or in transition. A hot breakfast follows the service. Four times a year, the Cathedral’s Mission Outreach Council organizes a group of 8–10 volunteers for a two-hour shift [read more…]

Compassionate Houston and the Adult Formation Council invite you to a dialogue event on Wednesday, May 16, at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall. Former Mayor Bill White will continue Houston’s conversation on compassion with a presentation entitled “Putting Your Candle on the Candlestand.” White was a lawyer and a businessman and the US [read more…]

We hope that you will take a few minutes to look at the new Cathedral Profile. Creating the profile was a cheerfully undertaken labor of love and a very rewarding study of our church. We began by looking at profiles from other churches and at the 1998 profile from the search that brought Dean Reynolds [read more…]

On Sunday, March 25, 2012, parishioners were invited by the Search Committee and Vestry to participate in small group discussions to share ideas regarding the search for a new Dean. Twelve groups assembled in various places throughout the church, each led by a member of the Search Committee and assisted by a Vestry member. The [read more…]

Reaffirm your faith in the human potential! The Religion and the Arts Council and the Justice and Peace Council are sponsoring a trip to see the A.D. Players production of “The Beams are Creaking” on Sunday, June 10, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30 and must be purchased by May 18, either online [read more…]

Organist John Meier, the assistant director of music ministries at Houston’s Church of St. John the Divine, will present the first concert on the new organ console on Sunday, May 27, at 4:15 p.m. preceding a Pentecost Evensong. The Evensong will be sung by the Cathedral Choir at 5 p.m. and will be followed [read more…]

I am both pleased and excited to share with you the good news that the Rev. Susan Barnes with be joining the Cathedral staff beginning May 1. With Luchy Littlejohn’s retirement a few months ago and my retirement now just around the corner, we are a bit short-handed. As God often provides, it turns [read more…]

Please mark your calendars for a book signing with Cathedral member and author Diana Untermeyer on Sunday morning, May 20. Qatar: Sand, Sea and Sky is her first book. Untermeyer lived in Qatar from 2004 to 2007 as the wife of the U.S. ambassador. She and award-winning photographer Henry Dallal have produced a book [read more…]

From April 27 through May 24, the Cloister Gallery will present an exhibit of masks by Austin artist Peg Runnels. The opening reception is Friday, May 4, from 6–8 p.m., with a talk by the artist at 7 p.m. “When I began making masks,” Runnels writes, “I was unaware of their power. My first [read more…]

Help others and have a blast this summer on a Cathedral youth mission trip! Fifth and sixth graders will spend four days here in Houston with the CUSE program June 7–10. Grades seven and up will travel to tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo., on July 13–18. High-school youth will head to Washington, D.C., on August 5–10 to [read more…]