Sunday, June 23rd, 2024

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Eucharist Rite II

7:30AM in Emmanuel Chapel



Holy Eucharist, Rite II 

10:00AM in the Nave & Livestreamed

5:15PM Holy Eucharist

in Emmanuel Chapel

Welcome to St. Luke’s Cathedral



We are a community of faith with ancient worship and modern thought, catholic traditions and progressive theology. We proclaim a Biblical perspective for thinking people, a respect for reason, science, and a diversity of perspective. This empowers compassion and care for both the wider community and one another. Our commitment to welcome and inclusion is central to our mission modeled on the Kingdom of God and proclaimed by Jesus Christ. 

Sunday Morning Service Participants

Preacher & Celebrant

The Reverend George Stevens, Interim Dean

Assisting

The Reverend Rebecca A. Grant, Deacon

Music Leader & Organist

Harold Stover, Guest Cathedral Musician

Cantor & Tenor Soloist

Curtis Maurand

Lector

Judd Hume

Prayers Leader

Stephanie Merrill

Ushers

Peter Bingham, Chester Bishop, Melissa Coy, Susan McCuller

Verger

Louisa Radtke-Rowe

Crucifer

Alec Thorne

Live Streaming

Jack Swanton, Sam Allen

Eucharistic Ministers

Joseph deKay, Caleb Ireland

The Healing Team

Sara Schmalz, Peter Carleton

Contributing Ministries

Acolytes, Vergers, The Flower Guild, The Altar Guild, The Kneeler Guild, The Healing Team, Eucharistic Ministers

Music copyrights granted under OneLicense.net #A-713087. Sources: The Hymnal 1982, Lift Every Voice and Sing II, Wonder, Love, and Praise, Voices Found, My Heart Sings Out, The Saint Helena Psalter, The Book of Common Prayer,, Enriching our Worship, The Holy Bible (NRSV). 

5:15PM Service of Holy Eucharist

Celebrating

The Reverend Dr. Celestin Hategekimana

Reflecting

Eleanor Roberts

Special seasonal music

Barbara Ryland, harpist

The Altar Flowers are given this morning in loving memory of

Darrell Jennings Doughty

Happening Today

Welcome This Morning’s Guest Musicians

Notes from Today’s Guest Organist

This morning’s music  is largely by Johann Sebastian Bach in conjunction with the Bach Virtuoso Festival’s residency at St. Luke’s. The prelude is an untitled movement from Bach’s Pastorella (“Pastorale”) that features a soulful melody played a solo stop set against pulsating repeated chords. The offertory solo is from a collection of sacred melodies published in Leipzig in 1736 for which Bach supplied accompaniments, and today’s opening, sequence, communion, and closing hymns are from the more than 300 Lutheran chorales that he harmonized. We usually associate his hymn-based organ works with those sturdy chorales, but Gregorian chants were also a part of the Lutheran service and Bach occasionally used them as the basis for organ compositions. The service closes with his Fugue on the Magnificat, based on the Gregorian tonus peregrinus that was traditionally used to chant the Magnificat at vespers. Bach begins by surrounding the tones of the chant with rich counterpoint in the organ manuals and concludes by sounding it out in long notes in the organ pedals.

Coffee Hour

Please join us after the service for a time of fellowship in the upper hall through the doors to the left of the altar. All are welcome!



Interested in hosting? It is an important part of our parish life and provides us with a time for connection. Hosting is fun and easy, it requires bringing in a baked good and brewing coffee the Sunday of your choosing. 

Please consider signing up, a lot of gratitude comes with the job. 

Check the hosting schedule by visiting the link here.  

Please email Meredith Cough with your date.

UPCOMING

Performances running until June 25 

The Bach Virtuosi Festival, founded by violinist Lewis Kaplan, offers residents and visitors of southern Maine a world-class concert series for lovers of the baroque repertoire. BVF has been well-received by the public, the press, and the artists themselves from its outset in 2016.

The artists are world renowned musicians, musicologists, and professors who play Bach and his contemporaries with brilliance, love and integrity.

To learn more about this year’s festival, to see times and locations of concerts, to purchase tickets, and to learn about the artists visit their website.

Phase II Educational Sessions and Phase III Small Groups

Beginning Tomorrow!

Sign-Ups Available

All cathedral community members are invited and encouraged to sign up for Phase II Educational sessions and Phase III Small groups on Zoom with Susan Czolgosz of WorkLife Consulting.

Times and sign-up links are available in the email which was sent on June 7th. Click here to read the email.

If you are unable to sign-up for sessions at home, we will have access to the sign-up pages for both Phase II and III available at coffee hours via the cathedral laptop. A member of our team would be glad to assist you.

If you need help or clarification with this process, please contact our parish administrator Avery Levesque-Schott for assistance via email or phone (207)-772-5434.

Phase II

The Phase II Educational Sessions will commence on Monday June 24th.

The Educational Sessions are additional times to the initial meetings held in May. 

Phase II workshops are designed to equip members in conflict mediation, caring communication skills and structured dialogue. They will introduce the idea of interest-based conflict, address the root causes of our congregational conflict, and will teach us how to avoid pitfalls in the future. This phase of our conflict transformation process seeks to build rapport and trust within our community.

If you attended one of the earlier Phase II Educational Sessions in May and would like to participate again, you are welcome to do so. We ask that you please be courteous and allow all members of the community an opportunity to participate.

Phase II Sign-up

Phase III

Phase III of the conflict transformation process is the small group experience.

Phase III will commence on Monday June 24th. 

It is a two-hour commitment. Groups of no larger than 8 individuals will gather to create an intentional listening community. The pre-requisite for participation in the small groups is attendance in the Phase II workshops. This is mandatory.

If you have not yet participated in a Phase II Education Session, there are sign-ups available here.

The small group experience at its core is an opportunity for healing and reconciliation.

Phase III Sign-up

‘In Person’ Sessions

For both Phase II and Phase III sessions, we will offer specific sessions which are ‘in person only’. For these meetings participants will gather in the Chapter Room at the cathedral, and join a singular Zoom call to connect with Susan. If you sign-up for this type of meeting, you must attend in person.

Pick-Up Choir—Sing for One, Two or Three!

June 30th, July 28th, & August 25th

On the last Sundays of June (30th), July (28th), and August (25th), music director Christian Clough will offer one-off choir opportunities for anyone interested.

Please gather in the choir room at 8:45 AM to learn a very simple anthem to be sung during that morning’s 10 AM liturgy.

Come as you are—ALL ages welcome, no prior singing experience necessary, no robes required, no processions to worry about—to enrich our summer worship.

Questions? Contact: Christian Clough.

Announcements

New Solar Panels Positively Impacting

St. Luke's Efforts to be Eco-Friendly & Cost Effective

The cathedral financial team received our first CMP bill with an amount due of $0 thanks to our 171 solar panels via NexAmp. Based on the info provided by CMP our next several bills will also be zero. 

While we will still owe Nexamp 85% of the credit generated from the solar bills

(A net savings of 15%), we will also be able to carry forward any balance on the CMP bill to the next bill cycle. 

Go solar energy and going green! 

With any questions please contact Tim Wilkins.

The Parish Prayer List Will Renew this Upcoming Week

Next Sunday, June 30th, the parish prayer list will renew.

Names remain on the prayer list for 3 consecutive weeks unless otherwise requested. If you wish for a name to be added, contact Avery Schott, Parish Administrator

Canon Clough Away

Christian M. Clough, St. Luke’s Canon for Liturgy & Music, is currently in Louisville, KY, representing Maine’s Episcopalians as one of four Lay Deputies—along with St. Luke’s parishioner John Hennessy—at the 81st General Convention of the Episcopal Church, where he will join thousands of other Episcopalians as part of, and swirling around, the largest democratic governing body in the world.

The General Convention gathers every three years to pray, discuss, debate, and legislate the direction of our denomination. You can learn more about the General Convention on its official website.

Before, during and after GC 81, you can follow developments via the Church’s official Episcopal News Service as well as through our own Diocese’s communications at Christian will be back on Sunday 30 June.

Opportunities & Resources

Space still available

for a Variety of Camps this Summer!

"Camp Bishopswood has been owned and operated as an arm of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine since the early 1960’s. Located on the shores of Lake Megunticook near Camden, Maine, Bishopswood is a beautiful, picture-perfect slice of God’s creation – ideal for a children’s summer camp!"

Opportunities This Summer Include:

• Youth Camp for children 8-16: Campers can do 1 week or multiple week sessions.
• Mini-Camp for ages 6-8
• Summer Finale: September 13-15. A weekend multigenerational summer camp experience for people of all ages. Registration for this experience is now open! There is also a day-only option on Saturday, Sept. 14.
• Back this year after a several-year hiatus is a mini retreat especially for those who do formation work in our diocese on Friday, Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. As in years past, this will be an opportunity to spend a day in conversation with formation folks, to enjoy delicious food, and imagine ways in which we can collaborate and uplift one another in our formation work. 



Register for Summer Finale here, including one-day and overnight options.

Register for the Formation Mini-Retreat on Sept. 13 here.

Want to learn more about Camp Bishopswood? Visit their webpage here.

To support Camp Bishopswood, visit their giving page here.

Watch the video above to learn more about Camp Bishopswood

"The Philadelphia Eleven" Panel Discussion

Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Maine

"In case you missed the screening of "The Philadelphia Eleven" on May 14 in Portland, or want to revisit the excellent panel discussion afterwards, we captured it on video. Listen to the Rev. Merrill Bittner, the Rev. Sukie Curtis, the Rev. Portia Hirschman, the Rev, Nancy Moore, and the Rev. Vicki Smith discuss women's ordination and the evolving role of women in The Episcopal Church."

An Update from St. Elizabeth’s Essentials Pantry

Diaper supplies are getting low at St. Elizabeth Essentials Pantry, especially size 3. Please consider adding diapers to your grocery list this week and leave in the blue box at the Park Street entrance. We are very appreciative of your continuing donations of kitchen ware and linens.

Questions?  Contact Byrd Wood

A General Convention Primer from Bishop Brown

Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Maine

"General Convention is our church’s means for setting a strategic direction, for responding to how we hear God calling us, and for equipping every one of our faith communities for

the work of ministry.”— The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown

In this short video, Bishop Brown shares his thoughts about some of the most important aspects of the 81st General Convention, including the election of a new presiding bishop. Read the transcript on the Diocesan website here.

The First-Ever Major Retrospective of a Wabanaki Artist

in a Fine Art Museum in the United States

Currently on Display at the Portland Museum of Art

May 24 though September 15, 2024

Published by the Portland Museum of Art

"As the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States, Jeremy Frey: Woven is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art. Featuring more than 50 baskets, made from natural materials like black ash and sweetgrass, Woven presents a comprehensive collection that spans a career of more than two decades. These works are intricate, mesmerizing, and expressive, emphasizing Frey’s prodigious skill and prolific creative output that honors and transforms one of the oldest art forms in the northeast. "

To learn more about the collection, the artist, and to purchase tickets, visit the link here.

Cultivating Climate Resilience: An Inclusive Discussion

June 27, July 11, July 18

9:00-10:00AM

The South Portland Library

Published by the South Portland Land Trust

The South Portland Land Trust, in partnership with the South Portland Library, invites you to a three-session discussion of ALL WE CAN SAVE (One World, 2021), an anthology of essays and poems by women regarding "Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." 

The discussions will be led by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder, a writer and editor based in Northern New England and the author of the forthcoming book, MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN (Broadleaf Books, 2025). The sessions will be held in the Main Library from 9:00 to 10:00 AM (or a bit longer) on June 27, July 11, and July 18 (all Thursdays). Please save these dates and plan to attend all three sessions. 

Paperback copies of the book can be purchased from various outlets for around $12, and the Library will have a number of both physical and electronic copies available at the Main Library or though the Library System.

To register for the All We Can Save discussion group, please click on the link here to go to the Library page where you can sign up. 

The Healing Team

The Healing Team offers prayers weekly on Sunday during and after communion in All Saint's Chapel (the small chapel to the right of the communion rail).

The following team members will be serving in the coming weeks:

June 16, 2024 Mary Strnad, Elise Magnuson

June 23, 2024 Sara Schmalz, Peter Carleton

June 30, 2024 Mary Strnad, Peter Carleton

July 7, 2024   Sara Schmalz, Judd Hume

Eco Tips from the Public Policy and Environmental Action Team

With the beginning of summer following the solstice on Thursday, PPEAT offers the following eco tips to “green” your summer activities:

1.Plan a "staycation" by finding interesting and enjoyable activities in your local area. This activity will support local organizations and diminish the use of fossil fuels used in cars or planes.

2. Have “green “ picnics by packing food in reusable containers. Bring cloth napkins as well as reusable plates and utensils. Remember the reusable water bottle! These steps will help reduce waste and protect the environment.

3. Plan sustainable reading through e-books or audio books. If you prefer a physical book, borrow from your local library or swap books with friends.

4. Harvest rainwater by investing in a rain barrel and use the stored water on plants.

5. This is a wonderful time to frequent farmer’s markets where you can find delicious fresh produce and support local farmers.

To learn more about PPPEAT click here

Contribute to St. Luke’s Summer Music Ministry

The Cathedral Choir will be in recess from 9 June through Labor Day, and summer is a great time to make a musical contribution to our worship as a singer or instrumentalist. Help us to keep our music well-supported with your offerings.

Please email Christian Clough, Canon for Liturgy & Music.

The Biblical Study Group

Summer Learning Resources



The Biblical Study Group will be on vacation until 1 September.

When we resume, we will meet Sundays 8:00-10:00AM.

Our ongoing theme is discovering the nature and meaning of “being created in the image of God.” To stimulate spiritual growth over the summer months, we invite you to read the following recommended resources:

1) God: A Biography by Jack Miles. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times calls this text “a tour de force.” Published by Vintage Books, Random House Publishing, New York, 1996

2) Jung’s Thoughts on God: Religious Depths of the Psyche by Donald Dyer, PH.D. Published by Nicholas Hays, 2000 P.O. Box 2039, York Beach, ME 03910.

“It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon you.”

3) Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction and In Support of Jung’s Extensive and Intensive Thought by Murray Stein.

Published by Open Court Publishing Co., P.O. Box 300, Peru, Illinois 61354. To order call 1-800-815-2280.

Join Luke's Garden

LGBTQIA+ Group

Luke's Garden is the cathedral's LGBTQIA+ group which meets every 2nd Sunday of the month following coffee hour.

All are welcome!

For additional information contact Orion Williams

Join the Young and The Restless

We are St. Luke’s 20s-30s-year-old ministry. We are an active group at the cathedral which also gets together outside of the church.

Join us as we go hiking, ice skating, play trivia, or just enjoy each other’s company! If you are new to us, welcome! We meet every Tuesday at Maine Beer Company in Freeport for Trivia from 6-8.

 Other events happen sporadically throughout the month, however trivia is a great opportunity to meet us if you’re joining us for the first time. Contact Shana Rose to stay up to date with group activities and information.

The Kneeler Guild and

Prayer Shawl Knitters

Tuesday

2:30PM

The Upper Hall.

For additional information contact Jeri Edgar 207-303-8447 or Nancy Mawhinney 207-775-7500

Everyone is welcome, whether you are curious or want to begin. Kneeler kits cost $75, which include directions, yarn, needles & canvas. Novices are welcome; we will teach you as needed. Prayer Shawls: 26-29” by 60”; select your yarn & needles. Coffee & Tea available.

Weekly Ministries

• St. Elizabeth's Jubilee Center is offered every Tuesday from 8:30 am to 11 am.

• The Food Pantry is open from 8 am to 11 am every Thursday.

• The Tuesday 12:10 Eucharist is offered every week in Emmanuel Chapel in-person and on Zoom.

• Noon prayer is offered every Wednesday via Zoom.

• Contemplative Prayer is offered every Thursday at 4:30pm on Zoom

• Compline is offered weekly on Friday from 8-8:30pm on Zoom.

Click on the logo above to learn about all that is happening in the wider Diocese.

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