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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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Frances Perkins’ Day
Frances Perkins’ life of good work – work that shaped our country and helped so many – has been an inspiration to generations and an icon for how baptized persons live out their ministry in...
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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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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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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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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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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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Model Safe Church Policies
1 Corinthians 12:12, 26-27 Christ is just like the human body—a body is a unit and has many parts; and all the parts of the body are one body, even though there are many. If one...
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Christmas Sing-Along
Come celebrate the joy of the Christmas season with a Christmas Sing-Along hosted by St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Yarmouth. Sing through a list of favorites like It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas,...