St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church
Our Mission: "To Love, Praise, Welcome and Serve"
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Worship this Sunday:
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Pastor Elaine Hewes, presiding
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11:15 a.m. H.O.M.E. Annual Craft Fair
Explore a diverse array of handmade crafts, art, and unique creations created on the H.O.M.E. campus and by local vendors.
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All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.
| | | | 4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom) | | | | |
10:00 a.m. In-person Meditation
10:30 a.m. Session A on Antigone in person only
4:00 p.m. Choir rehearsal
| | | | Celebration of the lives of Tony and Pat Stoneburner begins at Thresholds at 1:00 p.m. and ends at St. Brendan's +/- 3:00 p.m. | | | | 9:00 a.m. Women's Breakfast at Stonecutters Kitchen | | | | |
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling presiding and The Rev. Barbara Lundblad preaching
5:00 p.m. Celtic Eventide
| | | | 10:30 a.m. Prof. Peter Antich leads final session on the Phenomenology of Illness | | | | 7:00 p.m. "One Voice": A musical tribute to Marian Anderson - a Benefit Concert for Chelsea Davis’ Broadway-bound musical MARIAN (more info below) | | | | 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Session B on Antigone | | | | 17th Annual St. Brendan Women's Retreat | | | | 7:00 p.m. "Courage is Contagious" - An evening with Bishop Mariann Budde, Merrill Auditorium in Portland (more info will follow) | | Ninth Sunday after Pentecost | | |
Sermon given by The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Reece on July 26th.
Click below for the video recording.
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Ann van Buren: I would like to thank Nancy Greene for bringing me some of her purple allium flowers to plant in my garden. What a joy it is to see them thriving!
Bill Scaife: I am grateful for our Memorial-Meditation Garden and for the beautiful cross crafted by James Boster. We have a place to pray, to meditate, to appreciate silence.
| | We extend our gratitude to The Rev. Stephanie Batterman, a member of our Monday Meditation group, for making this altar frontal and matching stole for St. Brendan. Stephanie presented her handmade gifts on July 19th, and we used them for the first time this past Sunday. | | |
A thousand thanks to Skip, Diane, and Cindy
and the many others who helped make our Annual Lobster Picnic a success!
Skip tells us that the picnic has been an annual event for at least 27 years.
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The Power of Silence
It is our practice at St. Brendan to hold silence at the beginning of Sunday morning worship. It is our practice to hold silence numerous times during Celtic Eventide. It is our practice to gather for silent meditation on Monday afternoons at 4:30 (over Zoom) and on Wednesday mornings at 10:00 (in person).
We remind ourselves now and then that the word “silent” and the word “listen” share the same letters, just in different order. We remind ourselves now and then that when Mother Teresa was asked what she says to God when she prays, she said, “Oh, I don’t say anything; I just listen.” And when she was asked what God says as she’s listening, she said, “Oh, God doesn’t say anything. God just listens.”
I like to think we are being “schooled” in the art of silence at St. Brendan. I like to think we are being shaped in the practice of deep listening. Because it is there, in the place of silence, where the words fall away, and the letters fall away, that we can best “hear” (or know) the voice/the presence of God deep within our hearts.
It is in the spirit of this mystery that I offer this little poem…
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Morning Comes to the Bagaduce River
Seventeen geese just swam by without making a sound.
I could see them through the opening in the foliage
between the river and me.
And I learned in that few seconds that there is something
more silent than silence.
And that’s seventeen geese gliding through the water
without making a sound.
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Be sure to come to our annual H.O.M.E. Craft Fair this Sunday, August 2.
See the article below for more information.
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H.O.M.E. of Orland, ME, will be here this Sunday, August 2, in the Parish Hall after our worship service with consignment crafts created by artists around Hancock County and crafts created by residents of the homeless shelters run by H.O.M.E.
You will find great gift opportunities and many practical and beautiful handcrafted items for you and your family. Proceeds from this craft sale support H.O.M.E.’s mission to serve the underserved of Hancock County.
H.O.M.E. has been serving the people of Hancock County since 1970. Today, H.O.M.E. provides 54 shelter spaces on a given night and has 16 housing units. They run a food pantry, soup kitchen, childcare program, classes, an amazing gift shop, and more. Click here for an uplifting 56-year story of dedication to building hope in the community of Hancock County.
Your pledges to St. Brendan each year have supported H.O.M.E. through the Outreach Ministry allocations.
| | Education & Spiritual Development Ministry | | | | |
"The Lord is gracious and
full of compassion"
Psalm 145:8
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 10:30 a.m.
Session A on Antigone
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Richard Mallory – 8
Bringier McConnell – 8
Dan Reardon – 10
Fay Beaudoin – 11
Nancy Allison – 12
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Diane Greenlaw – 13
Woody Osborne – 20
Jim White – 22
Lori Parkhurst – 26
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We pray for those in special need:
We give thanks for the life of Anne Williams.
We pray for Luke and their family as they mourn her passing.
May God's strong love comfort them at this time.
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Debra Carter
baby Charles
Harry Vickerson
Julie M.
Danny Judkins
Cathy Johnson
Meg Graham
Charlie Putnam
Judson Brown
Mike S.
Meredydd Cooper
Henna Torrey Roy
Jerry
Agnes and Billy
Gwyn Murray
Sally
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Beth Kyser
David
Preston Henderson
Tammie Cox
Tyler Goss
Kate Hallen & Bob Blum
Judith Jerome
Mimi Maslan
Judy Miller
Megan
Bishop Thomas Brown
Naomi
Anne Burton
Hewit
Mary Ann and Terry
Nishah
Corbin
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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
Marcia Scott
Carol Stoneburner
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We continue to hold in prayer those in our community who have recently lost loved ones; among them are the Williams, Stoneburner, Sherman, and Hewes families.
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. Philip's by the Sea, Fortunes Rocks, Trinity Chapel, York Harbor, and for our Council on Indigenous Relations.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for The Church of the Province
of Uganda.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for North Sedgwick Baptist Church, Sedgwick.
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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Throughout the Bible, God uses food as a primary means of calling the people together and of revealing the divine Presence to them. Today we have Matthew’s account of the feeding of the 5,000. For early Christians, this account’s importance lay not so much in the miraculous multiplying of the loaves and fishes as in its resemblance to the Eucharist, their own way (and ours) of experiencing Jesus’ continuing presence in their midst.
Today we reach the most important moment in the story of Jacob. This scoundrel has long resisted God but now as he returns to his homeland, God and he wrestle through the night. Finally, God blesses him and gives him a new name, Israel, “he who strives with God.” Jacob is converted and becomes the holy father of God’s People.
Having reached the conclusion of his discussion of the glory of God’s grace, Paul now tries to deal with the fact that some Jews have not accepted Jesus as the Messiah. Nevertheless God’s promises to them remain.
Religious meals are one of the universal expressions of human religion. All the insights of God’s long love affair with humanity are summed up in these meals. Given deeper and fuller meaning by the Passover of Israel and finally used by Jesus to interpret the meaning of his death and resurrection, the Eucharist becomes for us the fullest and most complete revelation of God’s love and of His salvation.
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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