My husband, Dana, and I were on a bus, headed home from New York City, last weekend when we crossed into Maine and saw an American flag lowered to half-staff. “What is it this time?” I asked. Only after we arrived home did we learn of the school shooting that morning in Sante Fe, Texas, […]

BRUNSWICK In what has become an annual highlight, St. John’s Catholic School students will form a human chain to donate food to the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program facility. The event, set for 8 a.m. Thursday, May 31, will see St. John’s students stand side by side to create a line from the school at […]

GRASS LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. A large white cross that’s been in Jackson County for nearly 70 years has been taken down after a complaint over the religious symbol standing on stateowned land. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists asked the state Department of Natural Resources to remove the Grass Lake Ministerial Association’s cross in […]

“God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” — Romans 5:5 Celebrating Pentecost Pentecost, the fiftieth day after Easter, commemorates the receiving of the Holy Spirit by the early church, and it is sometimes referred to as the birthday of the church. The disciples were […]

ORR’S ISLAND All Saints’ Chapel has announced its schedule of clergy that will lead its services through September. The chapel opens for the summer on Sunday, June 3, with Rev. H. Roy Partridge Jr.; its final service will take place Sunday, September 30. The schedule is as follows:  June 3 — Rev. H. Roy […]

PORTLAND Six communities in the Diocese of Portland will offer the Totus Tuus — “Totally Yours” — program for the first time in Maine. The weeklong summer program for first to 12th graders, led by a team of college students and a diocesan seminarian, demonstrates living the Catholic faith and passes it on to participating […]

I have an internal narrator. We all do: Those sometimes pesky little thoughts that swirl through our minds, predicting and projecting information about our life. Why that jerk cut you off in traffic. Whether a coworker or family member likes or dislikes you. How a particular event or activity will go. But how reliable are […]

DURHAM Lisbon Area Christian Outreach’s annual benefit car show, hosted by Yankee Cruisers Car Club, will take place Saturday, June 2, at Shiloh Chapel in Durham. Registration will take place from 8-11 a.m. The event, which will include crafters and food, will benefit LACO’s food pantry program. “Summer is especially hard for families when free […]

“Jesus said, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord you know that I love you.” John 21:16 Saying I Love You Hanging on the wall in my house is a little framed picture which was passed on to me by my mother-in-law. It is yellowed with age, and […]

WISCASSET Feed Our Scholars is hosting a party tonight and everyone’s invited. For a fee of $25, attendees of all ages and abilities will paint a lovely, springy lupine picture under the leadership of artist Sue Begin of Cre8tive Events of Augusta. No need to feel one cannot paint a picture; Begin helps all to […]