Come to the Cathedral on the afternoon of Sunday, May 18, 2025 to join in St. Matthew’s celebration of Lessons and Carols for Earth Day. Msgr. Jameson, Cathedral Rector, presides at this 3:30pm service that features the Cathedral Schola Cantorum in cooperation with the St. Matthew's Creation Care Green Team.

Our Eco-fair will follow Lessons & Carols in the Cathedral Great Room. Join us for light refreshments and learn how you can help Mother Earth.

Lessons & Carols

Through carols, chants and choral music, coupled with meditative readings of poetry and scripture, we call to mind the gifts of creation and explore the current threats to the fragile health of the earth.

Come early and spend a few moments enjoying the mosaics of St. Francis and his disciples in the St. Anthony Chapel. 

Music will include works by Renaissance composers Josquin des Prez and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw; contemporary Scottish composer Chris Hutchings; as well as a French carol, a Welsh hymn, and a Shaker tune. Texts will include those by the 2024 Pratt Green Trust Hymn Competition winner and Fred Pratt Green, a 9th-century Gregorian chant Sequence, and an organ prelude by Dan Locklair—all offering another window into Earth Day themes and the writings of Pope Francis in his environmental letters, Laudato Si’(2015) and Laudate Deum (2023).

Parking available

The parking garage will be open for this event.

Contact

For more information, contact Thomas Stehle, Pastoral Associate for Liturgy and Director of Music Ministries.