St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church
Our Mission: "To Love, Praise, Welcome and Serve"
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Worship on Sunday:
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Pastor Elaine Hewes presiding and
The Rev. Timothy Ensworth preaching
| | 11:30 a.m. Tim and Lynne Ensworth's slideshow about their trip to Cambodia | |
All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.
| | | | 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross Art Show open | | | | |
9:00 a.m. Women's Breakfast at Stonecutters Kitchen
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross Art Show open
4:00 p.p. Jazz Concert with Scott Cleveland (piano and vocals) and Aiden Fiori (electric bass). Suggested donation is $20.
| | | | 4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom) | | | | 1:30 p.m. Worship & Music Ministry meeting (Zoom) | | | | |
10:00 a.m. In-person Meditation
10:30 a.m. Bible Study with The Rev. Tim Ensworth
12:30 p.m. Outreach Ministry meeting
4:00 p.m. Choir rehearsal
| | | | 8:30 a.m. Men's Breakfast | | | | |
9:30 a.m. Gathering at the Meditation Garden
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Pastor Elaine Hewes presiding
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From the series “Love Rocks,” images by Juliane Gardner
But rather something more like this…a hint in an ice-bound world of a love that once let loose cannot be long-held in tombs or graveyards or wintry landscapes, but rises in ways and places no one would ever expect or imagine…
Sermon given by Pastor Elaine Hewes on Easter Sunday.
Click below for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
| | I invite you to come and take a peace crane from our tree, and to think of someone in your life who may need a sign of love’s presence rising… of the love that moves in the ice and the snow… Someone to whom you might give this invitation to become a member of the “Despite Everything Club,” with its insistence that by the power of God’s love, Good Friday does not have the last word… | | |
Tenebrae (Service of Shadows)
Click here for the video recording.
Maundy Thursday
Sermon given by The Rev. Steve Hayward
Click here for the video recording.
Good Friday
"Roots"
Reflection given by The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling
Click here for the video recording.
| | Easter Flowers given in memory of and in thanksgiving for: | | |
Dick Bellows
Carlotta and Bob Budd
Mary Chewning
Clara Dixon
Marian Dobbs
Margot Ernst
Ross Gagnon
Roger Greene
Fran Greenlaw
David W. Hawkins
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Michael Hewes
Robert Rowe Lentz
Nicholas Whitney Lentz
Jim, Julia, and Julie Miller
Mary Ann Shaw
Tony and Pat Stoneburner
Nancy Torrey
Susan Wade
Eleanor Washburn
Ted Wright
| | Our thanks to Lis Ingoldsby, our "lily whisperer," for ordering and tending the flowers. | | |
The nature of hope
In my Easter sermon, I referred to the poem below, written by my colleague and friend, the Reverend Alice A. Hildebrand. Alice sent the poem to me toward the end of Lent, and it offered me such a powerful image of hope, despite all the despair and destruction going on in our world, that I have carried it with me ever since. So, with Alice’s permission, I pass her poem onto you, recognizing that as we pass such gifts on (gifts first given to us), we are bearing witness to the love that cannot be long held by cross or tomb or despair or death, but rises in times and places we would least expect. (If there’s anything the life, death and resurrection of Jesus tells us, it is this.)
Alice’s poem also reminds me of a very wise saying from Brother David Steindl-Rast: “Joy is the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” I think I need to carry this bit of wisdom around with me as well, trusting that in time I will understand its truth.
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This morning I am thinking about birds
This morning I am thinking about birds
how videos of the explosions
show them surging upwards
from whatever they were doing, perhaps
looking for food, or eating what they’d found.
Their flight paths crisscross
the background
of the burning city;
nesting season in Tehran, too,
as it is on my partially frozen New England hillside
maybe they are building, or were.
Twenty days of war
and birders are still posting sightings, as of day 17, at least.
A man named Parsa has posted
twenty-eight Common Swifts, five Red-billed Choughs, sixteen Rooks.
I searched and found an Instagram post
by someone with his name who said
“Everything will be fine.”
Alice A. Hildebrand
| | Giving our Priorities Shape (GPS) Action Item | | |
The GPS Action for the second Sunday of Easter 2026 continues to be the invitation to enter into the mysteries of God’s unfathomable love for us and for all of creation and to allow ourselves to be held in that mystery. By the power of this love, may we be released from the things that hold us captive, such as fear, hopelessness, or anger, and may we be set free to be signs of God’s love rising in the world in which we now live.
May the little wooden cross we received on Palm Sunday continue to remind us of our need to go deep down into ordinary lives of beauty and suffering and have the courage to reach out with open hearts to share the love of the Risen Christ.
| | Bishop Brown's Easter Message | | |
"Because of God's victory over death, we know that God's love is greater than the world's hate, God's healing is stronger than the world's brokenness, God's power for life is greater than death’s power to destroy."
— Bishop Thomas Brown
Click the image for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
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The Town of Deer Isle's annual roadside cleanup is planned for Friday through Sunday, April 24-26. Last year, St. Brendan’s teams cleaned up the stretch from Reach Road to Lowe Road. There is always a lot of trash on that stretch, and the cleanup makes our part of North Deer Isle Rd so much nicer! Please join us! Check with John Arrison about what times might work best for you.
If you would like to help clean up a piece of road near where you live, check with the Deer Isle town website and its cleanup map, at https://www.deerislemaine.gov/environment.
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" . . . in your presence there is fullness of joy. . ."
Psalm 16:11
Zoom Meditation/Silent Prayer at 4:30 p.m.
Readings, poems, and prayers are shared before a period of silence.
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10:00 a.m. Wednesdays
In-Person Meditation/Silent Prayer at St. Brendan
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Bible Study
Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
Bible Study on April 15 will begin a new series led by The Rev. Tim Ensworth on “Sowing Tears, Reaping Joy: The Bible and Brahms Requiem.”
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Judy Curtis – 15
Sally McConnell – 16
Tim Ensworth – 21
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Elizabeth Compton – 23
Barbara Wright – 30
Elaine Taggert – 30
| | Mickey Jacoba has moved back home. Her phone number is 367-5125. | | |
The Hancock County Food Drive began on April 4th this year. It is an annual food collection and fundraising project that supports food pantries, free meal programs, and school backpack programs across Hancock County.
More than 1 in 10 Maine households go without nutritious food, making Maine the most food-insecure state in New England. Childhood food insecurity rates in our region are even higher: according to the Kids Count Data Center, 1 in 5 children in Hancock County live in food-insecure households.
At the end of the drive, all of the donations will be evenly distributed among the participating food assistance programs. 100% of your donation goes toward feeding people in our community! To donate or learn more, click the button below.
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Community Matters More voting is now open!
Bangor Savings Bank's Community Matters More Program allows you to vote for your favorite non-profit. This could mean $5,000 for Families First Community Center to continue helping families who are facing the devastating effects of homelessness.
Please take a few seconds to vote. Once you've clicked on Maine and then Hancock County, you'll see a field where you can type in Families First Community Center. Click here to find out more about this organization.
| | We pray for those in special need: | | |
Danny Judkins
Cathy Johnson
Meg Graham
Charlie Putnam
Judson Brown
Martha Dane
Caroline Dane
Mike S.
Jennifer Hutchinson
Meredydd Cooper
Henna Torrey Roy
Liz Leuthner
Jerry
Agnes and Billy
Julie and Tom
Gwyn Murray
Sally
Beth Kyser
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David
Preston Henderson
Mollie Ann Meserve
Tammie and Jason Cox
Tyler Goss
Kate Hallen & Bob Blum
Judith Jerome
Mimi Maslan
Semantha
Judy Miller
Megan
Bishop Thomas Brown
Naomi
Anne Burton
Hewit
Mary Ann and Terry
Nishah
David Morrish
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Corbin
Rebecca
Pam B
Jaxson
Heather Corey
Stephen Gill
Bill Scaife
Brent Was
Gary and Wellesley
Mary Lawrence Hicks and family
Nancy Greene
Peter Brown
Seth
Linda Shepard and family
Lindsay Bowker
Marcia Scott
Carol Stoneburner
| | We pray, also, for those who love and care for them. | | |
We continue to hold in prayer those in our community who have recently lost loved ones; among them are the Stoneburner, Sherman, Hewes, Putnam, Wright, and Clauson/Hewes families.
We pray for those struggling with addiction and mental illness and their caregivers.
We pray for all those receiving care through Neighbor Care and for all the relocated residents of the Island Nursing Home and their families.
We pray for the victims of gun violence -- in our cities and towns, in our schools, in our places of worship, and in our homes.
We pray for the victims of the violence of armed conflicts around the world. We pray for those made refugees by the violence of armed conflicts. We pray for the victims of terrorist attacks everywhere.
We pray for all who suffer the effects of domestic violence and the violence of bullying in our schools and workplaces.
We pray for our nation, our president and vice-president, and all elected and appointed leaders.
We pray for all peacemakers and all those who work for justice; may we be found in their ranks.
We pray for all those serving in the armed forces of our country.
We pray for Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury; Hosam, Bishop of Jerusalem; Sean, our Presiding Bishop; and Thomas, our Bishop.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Mary & St. Jude, Northeast Harbor and for new life in our homes, our families, and our communities.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for Igreja Anglicana de Mocambique
e Angola.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for the North Sedgwick Baptist Church, Sedgwick.
| | | 2nd Sunday of Easter
We continue today to celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, a celebration which will last for fifty days in all (and which is celebrated again every Sunday throughout the year). The Gospel reading begins with the first Easter Day when Jesus appeared in the evening to the disciples and gave them his Spirit. The story continues with his appearance the following Sunday when Thomas met the Lord and confessed his faith. It concludes with words for us: “Blessed are they who have not seen, yet believe.”
On the Sundays of Easter, the first reading is always from the Acts of the Apostles. In today’s reading from Acts, we hear a portion of Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost proclaiming the resurrection. God has raised Jesus; and Peter and the other Apostles are witnesses of the resurrection.
The second lesson on the Sundays of Easter this year comes from Peter’s first epistle. This is a sermon on the meaning of baptism. Today the message is about our rebirth into new life in God as we died and rose with Christ in baptism.
Nevertheless, in the world we will still have trials and persecutions, Peter tells us, but in them, our faith is strengthened and purified.
As we gather as Church to celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, we find the living presence of Jesus in his Word, in the sacraments, and in our life as the community of the Body of Christ. We find ourselves made by the Holy Spirit into a community that is the visible and living sign of the risen Christ.
Notes on the Sunday Readings and Seasons of the Church Year. Copyright © 2009 by Michael W. Merriman. Church Publishing Incorporated, New York
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Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Pastor Elaine Hewes
Tel: 207-479-5651
elaine.hewes@gmail.com
Emergency Contacts:
| | Warden - John Arrison, 207-505-2474 arrison17@gmail.com | | Warden - Allen Downs 207-348-2560 agdowns53@gmail.com | | |
Emily Hawkins - Treasurer
Cindy Beyer - Clerk
Beth Carter
Kassie Grey
George Pazuniak
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