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‘It’s All About Love: A Festival for the Jesus Movement’

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/its-all-about-love-a-festival-for-the-jesus-movement/2023-07-09/

  The Episcopal Church “It’s All About Love” Festival Sunday, July 9 – Wednesday, July 12 The Episcopal Church is hosting “It’s All About Love,” a churchwide festival and revival featuring worship, learning, community, and...

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Q&A Session for Iona Collaborative’s “Thriving Bi-Vocational Congregations”

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/qa-session-for-iona-collaboratives-thriving-bi-vocational-congregations/

Wednesday, October 19 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET Offered by the Iona Collaborative The Iona Collaborative believes small communities can reflect God’s vision for a flourishing world. Today’s culture of rapid change presents an ideal learning opportunity...

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204th Annual Diocesan Convention

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/booklet-for-the-204th-annual-diocesan-convention/

The documents that make up the Journal of the 204th Annual Diocesan Convention can be accessed below: Agenda Bishop Brown’s Address Rules of Order Consent Calendar Resolutions 1-3 Candidate information Report from the Trustees of...

Blog Post

Coast Guard Auxiliary Chaplain Support (ACS)

https://episcopalmaine.org/coast-guard-auxiliary-chaplain-support-acs/

USCG Auxiliary Casco Bay Flotilla “The 2-1 ACS” “Semper Paratus – Always Ready”. That’s the proud motto of the United States Coast Guard, the guardians of our Nation’s maritime safety and security. The Coast Guard...

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Caring for Loved Ones with Dementia

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/caring-for-loved-ones-with-dementia/

Caring for Loved Ones with Dementia Tuesday, May 21, 1:30 p.m. You are invited to an upcoming presentation at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Yarmouth. Over 11 million Americans provide on-going care for loved ones with...

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How to Worship When Your Priest is Sick

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/supply-sunday-morning-plan-b/

COVID Continued: Sick Clergy and Sunday Morning Plan B In recent weeks we’ve been hearing frequent reports of people testing positive for COVID, including in many cases, clergy in charge of Sunday worship.  The good...

Blog Post

Bowen receives 2023 Kany Award for work with Seeds of Hope

https://episcopalmaine.org/bowen-receives-2023-kany-award-for-work-with-seeds-of-hope/

Excerpted transcript of remarks by Bill Kany, son of the award’s namesake, from the award presentation “The criteria is to be a person who has done a great deal to benefit our communities over a...

Blog Post

Why Justice? A reflection on the Diocesan Justice Commission Meeting

https://episcopalmaine.org/why-justice/

“Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?”  From our Episcopal Baptismal Covenant “Do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.”   Micah 6:8...

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Marriage After Divorce

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/bishops-consent-for-marriage-after-divorce/

In the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, permission for marriage after divorce from the bishop is not necessary. Please direct questions or requests for advice in certain instances to the bishop’s executive assistant, Lauralee Raymond.

Blog Post

A pastoral word from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry on the death of Tyre Nichols

https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/a-pastoral-word-from-presiding-bishop-michael-curry-on-the-death-of-tyre-nichols/?mc_cid=eb3f1ce26a&mc_eid=a9ee3b300d

"Jesus once told a story to teach about what it looks like to love one’s neighbor, which Moses and Jesus both said is a commandment of God. It’s a story about a man beaten nearly to death and left on the side of the road to die by people who knew what Moses taught about love for God and neighbor—and what the prophet Micah taught when he said that God requires three things of us: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God." Presiding Bishop Michael Curry