Sunday, June 9th, 2024

The Third 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 Right Reverend Thomas J. Brown, Bishop of Maine

Assisting

The Reverend George Stevens, Interim Dean

The Reverend Rebecca A. Grant, Deacon

Music Leader & Organist

Ray Cornils, Guest Cathedral Musician

Tenor Soloist

Pavel Sulyandziga

Lector

Elspeth Grant Pruett

Prayers Leader

Marlene Cordes

Ushers

Susan McCuller, Melissa Coy, Gail Swanton

Verger

Randi Hogan

Crucifer

Liam Coy

Live Streaming

Jack Swanton, Sam Allen

Eucharistic Ministers

Kate Leschey, Joseph deKay

The Healing Team

Elise Magnuson, Judd Hume

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 & Reflecting



The Right Reverend Thomas J. Brown, Bishop of Maine

Happening Today

Welcome This Morning’s Guest Musicians

Ray Cornils was Portland’s 10th, and longest-tenured, Municipal Organist (1990-2017), and was also Minister of Music at First Parish Church (UCC), Brunswick, ME, for over 30 years, as well as providing interim leadership here at St. Luke’s in 2022.

Pavel Suliandziga enjoyed great acclaim as an established performance tenor despite his young age. He is a master’s graduate of the Russian Academy of Music in 2015, he studied with Arthur Levy and just completed his professional studies diploma at the Mannes College of Music.

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.

Maestro Harold Stover (St. Luke’s Parishioner) and Renaissance Voices invite you to the group’s final concert of the spring season entitled ‘Love Songs Old and New’. 

The program will feature music by John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Edward Elgar, selections from The Great American Songbook, and more! Tickets are $10 at the door.

UPCOMING

State Primary & Municipal School Budget Election Day

For City of Portland Residents

June 11th

Polls open 7:00am and close 8:00pm.

Published by the City of Portland: "Primary Elections determine each qualified party's nomination of candidates for federal offices and State and County offices. Party candidates who are elected at the Primary qualify to appear on the November General Election ballot."

To read more about the 2024 Primary Elections, click here

Published by the Portland Press Herald : "All registered Portland voters can participate in the Portland School Budget vote. Voters can change their party status up to 15 days before Election Day. You must be in a party for three months before changing to another party. Please call the City Clerk's Office at 207.874.8677 to verify your party status."

"You must vote at your correct polling place. Call 207. 874.8677 or go to the following website to locate your correct polling place."

For more information about the upcoming municipal election, click here.

The following locations have been established as voting places within the City:

Performances June 19-25 

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.

Want to support the Bach Virtuosi Festival?

The festival is looking for housing for visiting vocalists. Hosting an award-winning artist is a wonderful way to support the arts in Portland.

In turn, the festival offers complimentary tickets to all those who host.

Dates: June 16 - June 21. 

An artist host provides:

1) A clean place to sleep

2) A restroom

3) Light refreshments such as coffee in the morning.

The artists are gone for rehearsals and concerts most of the day and night.

If you are interesting in hosting an artist please contact the festival administrator via email.

Phase II Educational Sessions and Phase III Small Groups

Begin on June 24th

Sign-Ups Available

This past Friday, June 7th, the cathedral community received a communication encouraging parishioners to sign-up for upcoming 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 here.

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

Canon Clough Away for Two Weeks

Christian M. Clough, St. Luke’s Canon for Liturgy & Music, is traveling to Europe for two weeks.

The primary purpose of his travels is to sing in the second-ever amateur international chorus sponsored by BachFest Leipzig (Germany).

The choir will be composed of singers from at least 20 different countries. Christian sang in the first iteration of this choir in 2022, postponed from 2020 by COVID).

This year, the choir will sing Bach’s Cantata 131 ”Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir” and his motet “Jesu, meine Freude” on Sunday 16 June during the morning liturgy “in the order of Bach’s time” in Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, where Johann Sebastian Bach spent the last 27 years of his life composing, performing, teaching and conducting.

The performance will be led by Ton Koopman, renowned Baroque specialist and accompanied by the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra.

Prior to the start of rehearsals, Christian plans to spend a few days in the Alto Adige (Süd Tyrol) region in the north of Italy, hiking and sightseeing in the shadow of the Dolomite Mountains.

He will be back on Sunday 30 June.

Opportunities & Resources

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 9, 2024  Elise Magnuson, Judd Hume

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

The Maine Episcopal Public Policy Network (MEPPN) invites Episcopalians and all others who are committed to working toward justice and peace for all people and public policies that respect the dignity of every human being, both in the State of Maine, the United States, and the world. Members of this group work, with God’s help, affirm the essential relationship between what we believe and how we live.

The Network will work with ecumenical, Interfaith, and community partners on common concerns through the legislative process. It will work to implement social and environmental policy teachings and commitments of the Episcopal Church at the statewide and local levels through engaging grassroots leadership in the 57 congregations across Maine through training and information sessions.

Go to the MEPPN website to learn more and to receive alerts.

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 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.

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