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For Earth Day, Honor the Wabanaki’s Response to the Climate Crisis
How should parishes celebrate Earth Day (April 22) and Earth Week (April 17-23) this year? The Diocese of Maine’s Creation Care Team suggests that we look to the Wabanaki experience as they respond to the...
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Season of Creation Celebrated with Ecumenical Service in Houlton
Under the leadership of Earth Keeper Christy Fitzpatrick, Good Shepherd, Houlton hosted an ecumenical service at the town amphitheater in Monument Park to start off the Season of Creation. There were about 40 in attendance,...
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Easter Vigil in Camden, April 4, 2026
The clergy and congregations of St. Margaret’s, Belfast, St. Peter’s, Rockland, St. John Baptist, Thomaston, Nativity Lutheran, Rockport, and St. Thomas’, Camden, gathered to celebrate the Great Vigil of Easter together. Bishop Brown joined them...
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Rev. Tom Mousin Retirement, April 12, 2026
On April 12, the congregation of St. Peter’s in Portland celebrated the ministry of the Rev. Tom Mousin, who served as priest in charge for five years. Mousin, who is retiring, was an elementary school...
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Ascension Day Call to the 207th Annual Convention, May 14, 2026
Hello church. Happy Ascension Day! This is a grand, grand day in the church. We celebrate Jesus fulfilling his ultimate destiny—foretold in scripture and by himself— that following his crucifixion and resurrection he would leave...
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Earth Day 2025 Worship
Earth Day 2025 Worship from the Creation Care Team of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine Resources for liturgy for a service on Earth Day (The Tuesday of Easter Week, April 22, 2025) or on the...
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Dio Maine Cooks: ‘Crab Cakes with Tarragon Tartar Sauce’
Founded in 1975, St. Francis, Blue Hill is one of the newer congregations in the Diocese of Maine. “In its very early days it moved around from the wine shop, to the bank, to a...
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Update on Use of the Common Cup
24 March 2023 Dear Friends in Christ, The late theologian, Louis Weil wrote, “When the Christian community meets to do the whole eucharistic action in obedience to the Lord, he comes. He gives himself to...
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Time for Some ‘Holy Cancellation’: A Lenten Quiet Morning Led by Fr. Martin Smith
The two New Testament words that we translate as forgive, actually mean “to cancel” and “to let go.” Lent is specially a time when we celebrate God’s constantly renewed cancelation of everything that puts us...
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World Too Beautiful service reflection
Reflection by Peter Jenks for World Too Beautiful service, January 5, 2022 January 6, Feast of the Epiphany, is no longer simply an overt religious date for churches to offer a service or meal; but...