I sat on my couch utterly exhausted. I’d been coughing for six days – deep, lungwracking coughs that snatched at my breath. As I labored to breathe, a thought swept over me. I was done. I was tired of breathing and wanted it to stop so I could rest. But that was impossible, wasn’t it? […]

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, June 18, Rev. Alfred Niese will preside over the service Sunday at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 24. For more information about the church and its services, […]

WISCASSET St. Philip’s Church’s traditional kick-off to the summer — the Strawberry Festival — is upon us. The 65th annual event will take place at 12 Hodge St. in Wiscasset between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturday, June 24, and will feature strawberry shortcake with native strawberries, homemade biscuits, real whipped cream or Round Top […]

BATH — The Charles Wesley Singers, as part of their Summer Youth Mission Choir Tour 2017, will be performing a concert at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St., Bath, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 24. The group is made up of youth from grades six and up and have been performing at their church, […]

“Look at the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.” Luke 21:30 Ordinary Time All the major feast days are behind us and we now enter into what is often referred to in the church as Ordinary […]

WARSAW, Poland St. John Paul II discussed stepping down as pope with his aides but was advised against it in the interest of the Catholic Church, his former secretary said in a book recently published in the pope’s native Poland. A book of interviews with the Polish Rev. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, “Secretary of Two Popes,” released […]

From the beginning, my heart opened. Then just as quickly, it closed. Once my husband, our 6- year-old adopted son and I left his land of familiar smells and people, textures and sounds, our son closed off his heart. Mine soon followed. It happened so fast, I was caught off guard. I didn’t even realize […]

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, June 18, Rev. Alfred Niese will preside over the service Sunday at All Saint’s Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane, off Harpswell Islands Road/Route 24 on Orr’s Island. Services take place at the church at 9 a.m. Sundays, through Sept. 24. For more information about the church and its services, […]

FALMOUTH St Mary Schola will perform their annual Spring concert, A Musical Banquet, on Saturday, June 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of Saint Mary, Falmouth, Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 7:30 PM at the Cathedral Church of Saint Luke in Portland and Friday, June 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of […]

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Matthew 28:19-20a Celebrating The Trinity This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, a day when we celebrate and commemorate, not an historical event or a saint, but the doctrine of the three […]