Prayers Requested for the Cathedral


The clergy of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is asking every church in the diocese to submit a community prayer. These prayers will be printed on ribbons and hung from the ceiling of the nave, as a component of an art installation titled Divine Pathways.

The prayers themselves will not be visible from the ground, but their presence will imbue the artwork—and the sanctuary of the Cathedral—with new and deeper meaning.

If you wish to participate in work of art and prayer, please send your prayers via email.

Your prayers provided for this purpose will be both offered at our daily Shrine Prayers at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fifth Avenue and then carefully considered and integrated into one prayer which will then be written on a ribbon by the exhibition’s artist, Anne Patterson.

We will be accepting prayers for this purpose until September 10.