Blog Post

Diocesan Staff Launches New Parish Visitation Program

https://episcopalmaine.org/diocesan-staff-launches-new-parish-visitation-program/

Offering Maine Episcopal congregations practical assistance and spiritual encouragement is a collective mission of the diocesan staff, and we continually look for ways to better serve our churches. So, in December 2025 we decided to...

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Bishop Brown Reflects on His Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

https://episcopalmaine.org/bishop-brown-reflects-on-his-pilgrimage-to-the-holy-land/

Have you ever been in the presence of a member of the clergy and thought to yourself, “Wow, he/she/they is clearly called”?  That’s what happened for me during my recent visit with Archbishop Hosam E....

Event

Parish Administrators Collaborative Meeting

https://episcopalmaine.org/event/parish-administrators-collaborative-meeting/

The Parish Administrators Collaborative (PAC) is a community of professionals who share knowledge and resources to support the ministry of our congregations and the mission of the Church. Membership is open to the primary administrative...

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Online Giving to Churches and Missions in Maine

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/online-giving-info/

The Diocese of Maine uses the platform Vanco to collect donations for all of our churches! We established this system in order to provide an online giving resource to help facilitate stewardship in our churches. While every church and chapel is included in...

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Bishop Brown’s Sermon: 2025 Fall Clergy Day

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/bishop-browns-sermon-fall-clergy-day-oct-7-2025/

A sermon for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine preached by the bishop, Thomas J. Brown, in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Newcastle for the Fall Clergy Day with the Bishop, Tuesday, 7 October 2025.  Take...

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Season of Creation Devotional

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/season-of-creation-devotional/

Diocese of Southern Ohio Vestry Devotionals: Good News to All Creation Welcome to these brief devotionals reflecting upon the place of creation care in the life of the parish and work of the vestry. These...

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Parish Administrators’ Collaborative (PAC)

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/pac/

The Parish Administrators' Collaborative of the Diocese of Maine is a community of professionals who support one another, share knowledge and resources, and support the ministry of our congregations and the mission of the Church.

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Dio Maine Cooks: The ‘100’ Cookies

https://episcopalmaine.org/dio-maine-cooks-the-100-cookies/

In this second installment of “Dio Maine Cooks,” we honor St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Palmyra and the church’s new rector, the Rev. Christopher Warne, who are celebrating their new ministry together today. The slim,...

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Litany for Gun Violence

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/litany-for-gun-violence/

A Litany in the Aftermath of Gun Violence  by the Rt. Rev. Stephen T. Lane, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine Giver of Life and Love, you created all people as one family and...

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Ascension Day Call to the 207th Annual Convention, May 14, 2026

https://episcopalmaine.org/resources/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...