Join All Hallows Guild for Flower Mart

Friday, May 3 | 10am - 6pm
Saturday, May 4 | 10am - 5pm

This weekend, for Flower Mart 2024, the Cathedral Close is fully “In Bloom!” Rain or shine, returning to the Cathedral grounds for this free event are the ever-popular antique carousel and children’s rides and games, the beloved puppet show and the Cathedral tower climb.

As always, our friends at All Hallows Guild feature numerous offerings from premier plants, unique gifts from a variety of vendors, spectacular free entertainment, festival food, and an international floral exhibit inside the Cathedral. Their White Elephant tent is filled with unique treasures, and you will find an amazing selection of books for young readers in the Children’s Book Tent.

Since 1916, the volunteers of the All Hallows Guild have been dedicated to the care and preservation of the Cathedral gardens and grounds. Click below for more information including a performance schedule and event map.

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UPCOMING SERVICES & OFFERINGS

Holy Eucharist

Sunday, May 5, 11:15 am

Join us for a service of Holy Eucharist on the sixth Sunday of Easter. The Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith preaches and the Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope presides.

Available in-person or online.

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AT THE CATHEDRAL

In the Company of the Saints

Sunday, May 5, 4 pm

Join the Washington National Cathedral Choir for In the Company of the Saints. This intimate performance is held in the Great Choir. Sit in the massive hand-carved pews, feet away from the High Altar, with its intricately carved reredos. Carved of French limestone it depicts more than 100 individuals that exemplify the Christian faith throughout the centuries.

This choral program explores the legacies of saints from St. Peter and St. Paul, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tickets from $30

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Registration for National Acolyte Festival Now Open

Saturday, October 12, 9:00 am-2:00 pm

Join acolytes, servers, and vergers from near and far on Saturday, October 12, for the Cathedral’s annual day of celebration, fellowship and learning.

The day begins as participants join in the longest and most colorful procession imaginable—the Grandest of Processions—as we prepare to gather around Christ’s table for a festival Holy Eucharist.

Following the service, participants are invited to spend the afternoon exploring the Cathedral and joining a variety of workshops. Perfect your thurible techniques, help build the LEGO Cathedral create a liturgical streamer, and take a look at Cathedral treasures.

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Join the Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage Online Book Study: Hope: A User's Manual

Wednesdays, 7 pm

In a time when our world seems fractured by contentious politics, war, climate change, and other scenarios of gloom and doom that dominate the headlines, how can we realistically practice hope? Join us online Wednesday evenings in May as we delve into "Hope: A User’s Manual."

These online sessions focus on engaging in thoughtful reflection and conversation to help cultivate resilient hope in our lives.

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Honor the Women in Your Life with a Mother's Day Tribute

Celebrate the special women in your life with a Gloria Deo gift this Mother’s Day. These thoughtful gifts, made in honor, memory or thanksgiving, support the Cathedral’s mission and are inscribed in the Book of Remembrance, on view in the nave.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Sunday Sermon: The Rev. Canon Leonard Hamlin Sr.

"But I'm here telling you that we've got a gospel of good news that grips us, holds us, energizes us, lifts us, empowers us and moves us. We have a gospel of good news that breaks in and breaks up the discordant notes of life."

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