ORR’S ISLAND All Saints’ Chapel has announced its schedule of clergy that will lead its services through September. Services take place at 9 a.m. each Sunday; the chapel is located at 9 Cooper Lane. Rev. Samuel Hartman will officiate this week’s service. The schedule for the rest of summer is as follows:  July 8 […]

PORTLAND Elizabeth Allen, director of human resources for the Diocese of Portland, has been named president-elect of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators. She will become president at the organization’s convocation in 2020. Allen, who has been on the NACPA Board of Directors since 2015, will continue to serve as diocesan human resources director […]

We were enjoying a peaceful walk along the Kennebec River with friends when our young children stopped to play on the bank of a muddy pond. Perfect childhood bliss. Then, across the pond, three hunting dogs crashed through the brush and sprang into the water. It happened so quickly, it took a moment to see […]

NEWCASTLE It is the oldest continuously used Catholic Church east of the Mississippi River, the first church in the United States to be named for St. Patrick, and houses both the altar of Bishop Cheverus and a bell cast by Paul Revere. But each corner and adornment of the elegant red brick sanctuary that is […]

ORR’S ISLAND All Saints’ Chapel has announced its schedule of clergy that will lead its services through September. Services take place at 9 a.m. each Sunday; the chapel is located at 9 Cooper Lane. Rev. Frank Strasburger will officiate this week’s service. The schedule for the rest of summer is as follows:  July 1 […]

“And he shall be like the light of the morning sun rising on a cloudless morning, gleaming from the rain on a grassy field.” 2 Samuel 23:4 Walking in the Rain What is rain but the re-distribution of life-giving water in the form of drizzle, showers, downpours, cloudbursts, or just plain raining cats and dogs? […]

GENEVA Pope Francis journeyed Thursday to the well-heeled city of Geneva to encourage all Christians, despite their differences, to unite in efforts to foster justice and fight poverty while the rich grow “ever more wealthy.” The pontiff ’s day-long trip to the lakeside Swiss city that embraced the Protestant Reformation was aimed at stressing what […]

BRUNSWICK “This is amazing.” That is how Father Patrick Finn described what it’s like to now be a priest of the Diocese of Portland. Finn was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Robert P. Deeley June 16 in a full St. John the Baptist Church — a church where he once enjoyed youth ministry and […]

WISCASSET Things are heating up at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church as many volunteers are working on final plans for the 66th Annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 30. Everything from hand-crafted toys to hand-made quilts to original books will be on sale throughout the church grounds and inside the church hall from 10 a.m. to […]

These days I am feeling a certain kinship with Job, who lived a couple thousand years before Christ. I’m not certain they had browntail moth caterpillars in the land of Uz, where he lived with his flocks and family, but it seems likely, given that his skin was covered with a rash so painful or […]