WOOLWICH — Lent is a time for reflection and study in preparation for Easter. To that end, Day’s Ferry Congregational Church is hosting an exploration of prayer, meditation and mindfulness from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday evenings — Feb. 20 and 27, and March 6, 13, 20 and 27 — at 50 Old State Road in Woolwich. […]

BATH — Winter fun will help benefit a local group next week. The Neighborhood United Church of Christ is hosting a Winter Carnival fundraiser on Friday, Feb. 23, to benefit the Neighborhood Café and open Mic. The festivities will kick off at 5:30 p.m., with a gumbo dinner, followed by an open mic. Later in […]

VATICAN CITY The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis meets frequently with victims of sexual abuse, seeking to defuse a mounting scandal over his unbridled support for a Chilean bishop accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse. Spokesman Greg Burke said Francis meets in private with victims individually or in groups several times […]

Last year I celebrated Lent for the first time. The churches in which I grew up seemed to skip from dolling out Christmas cookies to cutting the Easter ham with hardly a pause to reflect on the passion of Christ leading up to the pivotal moment of our faith. I fasted one meal a day, […]

BRUNSWICK All Saints parisioner Ed Polewarczyk facilitated an interactive space shuttle launch presentation last weekend. Polewarczyk, a Wiscasset resident and retired director of orbiter production and operations of the United Space Alliance, walked the audience through a possible space shuttle launch — from preparation, to flight, entry and landing — at St. John’s Church Hall […]

BRUNSWICK The Brunswick Shambhala Meditation Center has announced a weekend meditation retreat for Friday evening, Feb. 23, through midday Sunday, Feb. 25. The Brunswick Shambhala Meditation Center is located at 19 Mason St. Shastri Veit Weber, a senior teacher in the Shambhala tradition, will be leading the weekend in sitting and walking meditation as well […]

“He reached down from on high, he took me; he drew me out of the mighty waters.” Psalm 18: 16 Trusting God Do you remember the words to that old song, “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze?” Now to us this may look […]

Much has been conjectured about what happens when we die. Some believe everything ends and we go back into the earth. There are many other beliefs besides this. When I was going through my worst depression, which I no longer have, I wished that I could just cease altogether from existing. I couldn’t imagine continuing […]

Thanks to the efforts of many young Maine Catholics, local soup kitchens, food banks, and food pantries were truly the big winners on Super Bowl Weekend, Feb. 3-4. Youth ministry groups at parishes throughout the diocese held soup pots to collect monetary and food donations from parishioners as they left weekend Masses to benefit the […]

BRUNSWICK All Saints Parish will host “On Care for Our Common Home,” a special multi-week series in which participants will read and discuss Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’.” All are encouraged to attend, including those from other denominations and people with no faith traditions. Participants will learn about Francis’ appeal to address the needs of […]