WISCASSET — Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene will host Glory Bound Gospel Singers in concert on Sunday at the 11 a.m. worship service. Glory Bound has performed extensively from the Southeastern states and into Canada. Their music is southern-style gospel. They have been singing for the Lord for more than 20 years and present the […]

WISCASSET — The Bible Baptist Church, 143 Beechnut Hill Road, Wiscasset, will be holding a “Fall Festival” on Saturday from 2-5 p.m. The public is invited. Activities will include a hay ride through the Bible, games, a bounce house, face painting and other fun events for all ages. There will also be a free lunch […]

BATH Retired educator and veteran storyteller Dr. Phyllis Blackstone will perform her program of travel stories titled “See the USA … In a RoadTrek” at the Bath United Church of Christ, located at 798 Washington St. in Bath. The performance will take place on Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. Blackstone, a retired university professor of […]

WISCASSET St. Philip’s Church, located at 12 Hodge St. in Wiscasset, is hosting a seated yoga series on six Saturday mornings at 9 a.m., beginning on Oct. 8. The instructor for the series is Susan Gallagher, certified yoga instructor. The charge is by donation, with all proceeds going to the church’s steeple fund. The St. […]

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven”. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The Seasons of our Lives The leaves are beginning to show color and are dropping gently to the ground like teardrops, as if the trees are grieving the passing of summer. But like it or not the seasons change; […]

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis is wrapping up a Caucasus pilgrimage that began in June in Armenia and ends this weekend with a visit to two other countries with tiny Catholic communities: the Orthodox Christian bastion of Georgia and the largely Shiite Muslim nation of Azerbaijan. Given the itinerary, Catholic-Orthodox and Christian-Muslim relations will be high […]

Moms, this one is for you. You who struggle to work and raise kids. Who are figuring it out as you go. Who are in it for the long haul – the rest of your life. No vacation days. No sick days. No pay other than the love deposited in your soul from countless hugs […]

PORTLAND The Diocese of Portland joins the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, in mourning the loss of Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety, who served as the eighth Bishop of Portland from 1969 to 1974. During his time in our diocese, he devoted himself in a special way to the social teaching of the Church, particularly as […]

ORR’S ISLAND — On Sunday, Sept. 25, Rev. Richard Hall 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. 25. For more information about the church and its services, […]

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and with all your strength, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Mark 12:30 Love thy Neighbor We are all made in the image of God, and the love of mankind is firmly […]