All Saints Parish, including St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick, has a long history of helping Tedford Housing, which offers a variety of services for the area’s homeless and others in need. Over the course of the next two weeks, the parish will raise a little Christmas spirit to offer a helping hand once again. […]
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Book Notes: ‘Hope in the Valley’ a must-read for kids and adults
This past week, my family packed the car and drove up the Maine coast to visit my uncle for the Fourth of July. Just before leaving, my 13-year-old son, Asher, spotted Mitali Perkins’s new middle grade novel, “Hope in the Valley,” on my desk. “Can I bring this?” he asked. I hesitated. The book was […]
Spirit of Life: Making time to be better neighbors
This week in our congregation, we experienced something too rare these days — a unanimous vote on an issue of urgent importance to our neighbors. That issue is tribal sovereignty for the four Wabanaki tribes that remain in Maine, and the goal is to recognize and restore to Maine’s tribes the same rights, powers and […]
All welcome at healing service Sunday in Newcastle
The Rev. Richard Rice will lead a special healing service at St. Patrick Church, located on 380 Academy Hill Road in Newcastle, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11. All are welcome to gather at the service, which will also include prayer teams to assist those in need. Rice has served as a parish priest, hospital […]
Registration open for summer Bible school and Totus Tuus
Youngsters will become anchored in the knowledge that Christ guides them through life’s storms, discover why we need to care for our common home, take a Bible blast to the past, and go on other adventures during Vacation Bible Schools and Totus Tuus offered at parishes around Maine this summer, the Diocese of Portland recently […]
Church lets its light shine for peace and diversity
This weekend, UUCB will be lit up orange in recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Day; next weekend, it will be illuminated in rainbow colors to coincide with the Brunswick Pride Festival.
Freeport student graduates from seminary program
For the past four years, Logan Schulz, a graduating senior at Freeport High School, has attended a 6 a.m. class at the high school seminary program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Schulz would attend this 50-minute class daily during the school year to study Christian gospel principles before starting his regular […]
St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick raises over $45,000 for scholarship fund
Over 200 names of family members and friends who have passed away were read as candles were lit for each during the annual St. John’s Scholarship Memorial Mass held at St. John the Baptist Church in Brunswick on May 30. The Mass remembers and celebrates the lives of loved ones but also serves to raise […]
St. John’s Scholarship Memorial Mass set for May 30 in Brunswick
A special Mass to honor family members who have passed away and also to raise crucial funds for students at St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick will be at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 30. The St. John’s Scholarship Memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. John the Baptist Church on 39 Pleasant St. in Brunswick. […]
Spirit of Life: Feeling judgmental? Try curiosity
You don’t have to search far to find evidence of the growing polarization of our society. In so many areas of our lives, we are asked to choose sides. Are we red or blue, conservative or liberal, spiritual or secular, for it or against it? It’s not new, of course, this binary way we have […]