Community Thanksgiving Meal
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27th 6pm in Kaseman Hall
The Cathedral will provide turkey and ham.
Please bring a dish to pass.
No cost to attend.
Advent Family Festival
Sunday, November 30th at 10am
in Kaseman Hall
Come learn about the season that prepares us for Christmas and assemble your own Advent wreath!
Advent Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 7th
3:30pm
Cathedral Commissions Composer, Dr. Bruce Neswick gives a 25-minute lecture in the cathedral nave.
4:00pm Service begins
This special service will include the world premiere of a new work by The Cathedral Commissions composer-in-residence, Dr. Bruce Neswick.

The Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent begins with a Responsory from Matins, the first liturgy of the day in the English tradition. At the heart of the service are readings from Scripture that describe how God planned from ancient times to send a Messiah to bring his people out of exile and misery. Readings from the New Testament continue the story of God’s plan as it unfolds in the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Son of God, and comes to a climax and final act in his return at the end of time to complete the promised redemption.
Following each reading, there are carols, anthems, and hymns that have been chosen to help us reflect on the meaning of these things as we begin this Advent season of expectation and hope. Worship concludes with a Responsory from Vespers, a liturgy for the close of day.
We hope the evening’s time of scripture and song bring you a rich sense of God’s love and presence this Advent season.
No tickets are needed for this special service. Donations gratefully received.
Ted Howden Memorial Eucharist
Wednesday, December 10th at 6:00PM
We will celebrate New Mexico's own special saint who, while serving in World War II, was captured by the Japanese and gave of his own food rations to feed other troops on the Bataan Death March.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Festival
Thursday, December 11th at 6:00PM
Beginning with a festal procession, mananitas, and Eucharist. Mariachi band and tamale dinner to follow
Breakfast with Santa
&
The 10th Annual
"A Children's Messiah" with Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico
Saturday, December 13th
Breakfast with Santa begins at
8:00 am
Join us as we create Christmas ornaments together and spend some time with Santa.
The 10th "A Children's Messiah" 45-minute program begins at
10:30 am
in the Cathedral. Please visit the performing ensemble's website for additional musical information.
www.polyphonynm.com
Magnificent Magnificat

Sunday, December 14, 2025
11:00AM
Join us for this celebration of the third Sunday of Advent through these majestic musical works. Antonio Vivaldi’s Magnificat RV 610 will feature a period instrument string ensemble led by concertmaster Stephen Redfield and a chamber choir of 12 professional singers and soloists led by Canon Dr. Maxine Thévenot. Enjoy familiar excerpts from George F. Handel’s famous Messiah. Then, find yourself enveloped by the powerful sounds from the new Hauptwerk continuo organ at the Cathedral of St. John with Handel’s Organ Concerto Opus 7, No. 6. This organ concerto will highlight the keyboard virtuoso skills of soloist Dr. Thévenot.
No tickets are needed for this special service. Donations gratefully received.
Ceremony of Carols
Sunday, December 21 at 3:30 PM
and 4:00 PM
Discover one of the 20th century’s most beloved choral treasures this Christmas season with Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. The composer’s beautiful setting of medieval texts creates a unique listening experience—sometimes playful and dance-like, sometimes hushed and reverent, yet deeply moving throughout. Emily Levin, principal harpist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, joins the treble voices of the Cathedral choir to bring this magical work to life. All guests are invited to stay and enjoy a Christmas Lessons & Carols service at 4:00 PM, immediately following this performance.
No tickets are needed for this special service. Donations gratefully received.
Christmas At the Cathedral of St John
Wednesday, December 24th and Thursday, December 25th
Join us this Christmas as we gather in joy and gratitude to celebrate the birth of Christ. Through beautiful music, candlelight, and community, may your heart be filled with peace and hope. All are welcome, come and share in the wonder of this holy season!
Bradley Hunter Welch in Recital
Sunday, January 11th at 3:00 PM
Enjoy works by Bach, Drischner, Dupré, Frederick Swann, and Aaron David Miller in this afternoon organ recital. This concert is co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Hailed as “A world-class virtuoso” and “an expert at defining darks, lights, shadows and colors,” Bradley Hunter Welch is increasingly in demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and collaborative artist. A native of Knoxville, TN, Bradley holds the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts, Master of Music degrees, and the Artist Diploma from Yale University where he studied with Thomas Murray and Martin Jean. He also holds the Bachelor of Music degree magna cum laude from Baylor University where he studied with Joyce Jones.
Dr. Welch is the 2003 First Place winner of the Dallas International Organ Competition and was also awarded the Audience Prize for the second time, having previously won it in 2000. He was Director of Music & Arts at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX from 2009 to 2014 and currently devotes his full-time attention to a thriving solo concert career. Between his concert and recording engagements, Dr. Welch serves as Artist-in-Residence as Christ Church (Anglican) in Plano, TX–one of the largest Anglican churches in the United States. In addition to these duties, he performs approximately 20 concerts annually under the exclusive artistic management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, Hartford, CT.
His premier recording is the first solo organ recording of the Cliburn Organ at Broadway Baptist Church. Bradley is married to Kara Kirkendoll Welch, a flutist in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Adjunct Professor of Flute at Southern Methodist University. They have a son—Ethan Hunter Welch—and a daughter—Avery Kristine Welch.

Tickets are $25. Students with current IDs are eligible for free admission.
In Remembrance
Sunday, February 1 at 3:00 pm
The centerpiece of the program, Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps consists of 13 movements that alternate between music and readings. Based on research of original music sung by incarcerated inmates in Holocaust concentration camps, this 40-minute cantata is an emotional, musical journey through one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Working from translations of original Polish materials found in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and starting with just a single line of melody, McCullough has fashioned a haunting choral tribute to the 6 million Jews who were systematically persecuted and murdered as well as to the millions of other individuals the Nazi Party classified as “undesirables,” including Poles, Romanian gypsies, homosexuals, transsexuals, political opponents, religious dissidents, the mentally ill and the physically disabled. What emerges from the insanity of one of history’s worst examples of man’s inhumanity to man is a sense of music’s life-affirming powers.
She Sang the Stars
Sunday, March 8th 21 at 3:00 PM
Join the upper voices of Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico for International Women's Day weekend. This program celebrating the power, resilience, and strength of women will feature the New Mexico premiere of Canadian composer Sarah Quartel's She Sang the Stars. Listeners will also enjoy works by Mari Esabel Valverde, J. Reese Norris, Ethan Sperry, B. E. Boykin, Jim Papoulis, and Lady Gaga.

Nathan Salazar, pianist
Maxine Thévenot, condutor
Richard Elliott in Recital
Sunday, March 15th at 3:00 PM
Enjoy soul-stirring works for the organ composed by Brenda Portman, William Grant Still, and Maurice Duruflé, including his Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator.
Richard Elliott is the Principal Organist at the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he participates in the long-running daily organ recital series and accompanies the Tabernacle Choir on the choir’s weekly radio and TV broadcast, “Music and the Spoken Word,” as well as during general conferences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As accompanist for the Tabernacle Choir he has performed in many of the world’s great halls and appeared on numerous television and radio programs. He has traveled extensively as a solo recitalist, with performances on five continents, and previously served as an assistant organist at the John Wanamaker Department Store (later Macy’s) in Philadelphia, home to the world’s largest fully functioning pipe organ. Dr. Elliott can also be heard on dozens of recordings and videos with and without the choir.
Tickets are $25. Students with current IDs are eligible for free admission.
A Good Friday Meditation
Friday, April 3rd at 3:00 PM
Enrich this season of reverence and contemplation with an afternoon of moving musical works. At the heart of this performance will be the New Mexico premiere of Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross) by Philip Moore, featuring the Cathedral’s Dean and Rector, The Very Rev’d Kristina Ann Maulden, as narrator, and Director of Cathedral Music, Canon Dr. Maxine Thévenot, as organ soloist.
No tickets are needed for this special service. Donations gratefully received.
Women’s Life and Love
Sunday, April 12th at 3:00 PM
Enjoy an afternoon recital featuring three captivating and emotionally powerful art song cycles by Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, and Manuel de Falla. Mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Zander-Wall, with over fifty recital credits, has performed internationally with organizations such as the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft, the Hamburg Mahler Verein, and the Goethe-Institut. She has appeared with leading festivals and opera companies including Aspen Music Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Hamburg Opera, and is the founder and director of the Vocal Artistry Art Song Competition in New Mexico.
She is joined by Louise Bass, a distinguished organist and passionate interpreter of 20th-century French music. Bass studied at Indiana University and Oklahoma City University with Wilma Jensen, and in Paris with Susan Landale. Currently Artist-in-Residence in Organ at Georgia’s Piedmont University, she has toured internationally and performed at venues such as Spivey Hall, St. James Cathedral, and the Tuscia Music Festival in Italy.
Tickets are $25, with free admission for full-time students presenting a valid student ID.
PILGRIMAGE
to Bosque Redondo
UPCOMING - LENT 2026
Departs 9am from the Cathedral
Picnic lunch - Bring a sack lunch
Honor the history of Indigenous Peoples with a pilgrimage to Bosque Redondo. We will leave the Cathedral together to visit the place where the "Long Walk" ended. The Long Walk was a relocation program by the United States federal government to relocate the native peoples from their ancestral site in Northern New Mexico. Due to the march and interment, nearly 3,500 Navajo and Apache died.
Fundraiser Concert for Church Unbound
Sunday, May 3rd at 3:00 PM
Experience this meaningful concert while making a difference in your community. At the heart of this performance is Beatitude Mass: For the Homeless by Henry Mollicone. Featuring soloists soprano Jennifer Perez and baritone Edmund Connolly, a chamber orchestra and the Cathedral Choirs of St. John will come together under the direction of the Cathedral’s Director of Music, Canon Dr. Maxine Thévenot.
Church Unbound is a collaborative effort by Episcopal churches offering spiritual support, refreshments, and a church service to people living on the streets, meeting every Sunday at 1:30 PM at the corner of Central and Charleston Street in Albuquerque. Thank you for your support.
Tickets are $25. We encourage all who are able to select a donation ticket in support of Church Unbound. Free tickets are available for all full-time students who present a valid student ID.
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