With the deep chill of a Maine February upon us and five children hanging around our house on a one-week school vacation, it was time to get out and have fun. So, while our older children played a board game around the kitchen table, my husband, Dana, and I gathered our two youngest boys and […]
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Bishop Deeley to Bless and Dedicate New St. John’s Community Center & Adoration Chapel in Brunswick on March 3
BRUNSWICK — All Saints Parish in Brunswick will celebrate the opening of its new St. John’s Community Center and Adoration Chapel March 3, after years of planning fundraising and construction. Bishop Robert P. Deeley will preside over a blessing and dedication ceremony at the new center. All are welcome to attend the day’s events which will […]
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Faith Notes book review: ‘Common Man, Extraordinary Call’
When my husband and I became the parents of a little girl with special needs, we didn’t have time to read books about cerebral palsy, join a support group or seek resources to help us raise her. For one, we were too busy feeding, encouraging and taking care of our daughter, Ruth. For another, Dana […]
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Faith Notes: Merry Stuffmass
“What do people who aren’t religious celebrate at Christmas?” a dear friend’s daughter recently asked her – or something along those lines. “Well, some people celebrate a religious Christmas and some people celebrate a secular Christmas,” she explained, describing a friend who celebrates the season by hosting friends and giving to others even though she […]
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Faith Notes: A power greater than yourself
There’s an election next week, but I find it hard to concentrate on who’s running for what with the tragedy in Pittsburg where 11 people were gunned down in an anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue. With masses of desperate people crowding our southern border, hoping for a better life. With the New York Times’s photos […]
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Faith notes: The model of love
I turned the page in the biography I was reading to my children about the life of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary to India in the early 1900s, when I came across a scene that typified what angers so many about the history of Christian missions — a procession of Indian servants carrying a group […]
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What Hanukkah’s portrayal in pop culture means to American Jews
When I was growing up in suburban New York, Hanukkah was not grounded in religious observance. Having no clue that there are traditional Hebrew blessings that accompany the kindling of the Hanukkah candles, we invented our own wishes, awkwardly voiced out loud, for happiness and peace. Then again, the festival of Hanukkah demands the performance […]
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Fundraising for All Saints Parish Multipurpose Facility in Brunswick eclipses $4 million
BRUNSWICK — Hundreds of donors, parishioners and businesses have raised more than $4 million toward the completion of the new All Saints Parish Multipurpose Facility in Brunswick, the Catholic diocese announced Thursday. “The community is overjoyed at the progress being made,” said Jim Baskerville, general chair of the steering committee overseeing the campaign. “Inside […]
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Workshop on centering prayer scheduled in Auburn
AUBURN — “Your intention, when you sit for this, is to consent to God’s presence and action in your life.” The words of Fr. D. Joseph Manship, a priest of the Diocese of Portland, describe the concept of “centering prayer,” a method of silent prayer through which participants seek to open their whole beings to God […]
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Faith Notes: Fable’s faults and foibles
The first surprise about our rescue puppy was that she wasn’t a puppy. “She’s about nine months old, nearly full grown,” the vet said last month, prying apart the jaws of the pup we’d named Fable. “She has all her adult teeth.” “I knew it!” I said to my husband, Dana, when he drove her […]