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Sunday, July 28th, 2024
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
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Holy Eucharist Rite II
7:30AM in Emmanuel Chapel
Holy Eucharist, Rite II
10:00AM in the Nave & Livestreamed
Holy Eucharist
5:15PM in Emmanuel Chapel
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Welcome to the Cathedral Church of St. Luke
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.
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Sunday Morning Service Participants | |
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Preacher
The Reverend George Stevens, Interim Dean
Celebrant
The Reverend Christopher Worthley, Assisting Clergy
Assisting
The Reverend Rebecca A. Grant, Deacon
Music Leader & Organist
Christian M. Clough, Canon for Liturgy & Music
Lector
William Salomon
Prayers Leader
Susan McCuller
Ushers
Mary Linneman, Melissa Coy, Stan Kuziel, Susan McCuller
Live Streaming
Jack Swanton, Sam Allen
Eucharistic Ministers
William Hoyt, Caleb Ireland
Contributing Ministries
Acolytes, Vergers, The Flower Guild, The Altar Guild, The Kneeler Guild, The Healing Team, Eucharistic Ministers, pick-up choir volunteers
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).
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5:15 PM Holy Eucharist
Celebrant & Reflector: The Reverend Celestine Nkubito
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Thank you to this morning’s pick-up choir!
We appreciate your musical gifts and offerings during this morning’s liturgy. If you would like to participate in the summer’s last pick-up choir, 25 August, please gather in the choir room at 8:45AM to learn a very simple anthem to be sung during that morning’s 10AM liturgy.
Come as you are—ALL ages welcome, no prior singing experience necessary, no robes required, no processions to worry about—to enrich our worship.
The anthem will be distributed on the day of the services, and will be simple enough to learn in the time allowed, but if you would like to see the music in advance, please send an e-mail to Christian and he will send you a link to a scan of the music.
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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.
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Summer Finale
Sept. 13 - 15
Camp Bishopswood
Registration is now open for Summer Finale at Camp Bishopswood!
Summer Finale has several offerings:
- There is 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.
See a full description, including FAQs, here.
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Joyce M. Walsh
JUNE 20, 1932 – JULY 8, 2024
Please join us for a service in celebration of life in the cathedral nave on Wednesday, July 31st, at 11:00AM.
Light refreshments to follow
in the Upper Hall offered by the St. Luke's Kneeler Guild.
Please hold Joyce and her family
in your prayers.
Joyce's obituary can be found here.
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Nancy Neal Ault Beebe
AUGUST 21, 1927 - JUNE 30, 2024
Please join us for a service in celebration of life in the cathedral nave on
Saturday, August 3rd, at 11:00AM.
Light refreshments to follow
in the Upper Hall.
Please hold Nancy and her family
in your prayers.
Nancy's obituary can be found here.
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Eco Tips from the Public Policy
& Environmental Action Team
PPEAT invites you to watch the short film entitled “A Story of Stuff” which addresses the environmental impact of our consumption-crazed culture.
The film aims to raise awareness about what we are consuming and what becomes of these items when we no longer use or need them. Furthermore, it poses the greater question “Are our consumption habits contributing to environmental degradation and harm to others?”
To watch the film and to access helpful resources, visit the webpage here.
To learn more about PPEAT and to read past meeting minutes, please visit their page on the cathedral website here.
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Season of Creation Book Group
Meeting Each Monday at 6:45PM
August 26-September 30
Connect Room at St. Alban's Episcopal Church
885 Shore Rd, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107
Contact Mary Bingham Paul if Interested
The Season of Creation is fast approaching! In September, parishioners from St. Alban’s, St. Luke’s, and St. Peter’s are joining together to form a book group.
The group will start on August 26 and end on September 30, 2024. Proposed meeting times are each Monday from 6:45PM-8:00PM in the Connect Room at St Alban’s. Spaces are limited to 12 people. While in-person is preferable, a hybrid option will be offered.
The book discussion will be led by Mary Brigham Paul, a member of St. Alban’s.
The group will be reading Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World by Karen Armstrong.
Please contact Mary Brigham Paul sign up, and please indicate whether you would like to meet in person or on zoom.
You can purchase the book through Amazon, Nonesuch Books, or wherever you like to purchase your books.
About the Author: Karen Armstrong has written many books on religious affairs, with a specific focus on the history of world religions. To read more about her please visit the webpage here.
About the book: Sacred Nature is “An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to rekindle our spiritual bond with nature, drawing on the wisdom of the world’s religious traditions”.
“Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear to awe to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred…Karen Armstrong re-sacralizes nature for modern times. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the world’s religious traditions, she vividly describes nature’s central plan in spirituality across the centuries: from the Book of Job to St. Thomas Aquinas, from Lao Tzu to Wordsworth, and from the Stoics to Jainism and beyond…explor(ing) the power of silence and solitude, the nature of personal sacrifice and the need to reconnect with sorrow and compassion—and how greater contact and appreciation for nature can help us in unexpected ways”. Penguin Random House Publishing
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RESOURCES FROM THE DIOCESE
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THE WIDER CHURCH
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To read about stories, resources, and events from around the Diocese of Maine, read their newsletter, The DioLog, by clicking the link here, or by clicking on the Episcopal Maine Shield in the bottom of this email. | |
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From the Bishop: A Call to Prayerful Action
26 July 2024
The commemoration of the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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"The people in the Holy Land—Israel and Palestine—are heavy laden. And right now, our most faithful prayer is for the burdensome violence to end. I have written to our representatives in Washington to call for a ceasefire. And I urge you to join me in making your voices heard."
—The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown
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Bishop Brown Recaps General Convention
Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Maine
News from the 81st General Convention is widely available from the Episcopal News Service and more information from our deputies and communications team will be forthcoming. In the meantime, the following is the bishop's curated list of key resolutions. All of the resolutions are easily accessible online here.
- A015, Owning a Commitment to Reparations
- A028, Support fro Freedom to Consider Ethical Issues in Investing
- A035, Establish model policies for Anti-Racism work
- A049, United Methodist Church, toward Full Communion
- A053-A058, several canonical amendments related to Title IV disciplinary process
- A101, Revise Denominational Health Plan pricing
- A110, Clarify distinction between Biblical Israel and Modern Israel
- A121, Authorize Commemoration of Bishop Barbara C. Harris
- A168, Establish the Diocese of the Great Lakes
- A169, Establish the Diocese of Wisconsin
- B010, Revise Title IV process
- C009, Establish Navajoland's autonomy
- D007, Israel-Palestine
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D074, Renouncing the Theology of Slavery by the Reverend James Craik, 11th President of the House of Deputies. nota bene--you will be hearing a GREAT DEAL more about this resolution and its connection to one among us in the Diocese of Maine.
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Tri-Dio Sacred Ground Circles Begin Again This Fall
Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Maine
"Are you interested in joining others from the Episcopal Dioceses of Northern New England (and beyond) in a film-based dialogue series on race and faith? The third round of Tri-Dio Sacred Ground dialogue circles will start this fall, and will include others from the wider Episcopal church and other denominations. There will be at least three circles that will meet at different times and on different days. Register here.
View the Sacred Ground Invitational video “We Bless You” by the Union of Black Episcopalians and Sacred Ground staff, and learn more about Sacred Ground here.
Representatives from each diocese are: Mary Provo of Maine, Betty Lane of New Hampshire, and Franci Vinal Farnsworth of Vermont. "
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The BTS Center Convocation 2024
Hope in Small Places: Becoming People of Refugia Faith
Sept. 26-27
Maple Hill Farm Inn and Conference Center, Hallowell
Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Maine & The BTS Center
"In a climate-changed world, we are drawn toward places where life persists, hope is nurtured, and courage, gratitude, and wonder are ever-present. These are the spaces Convocation 2024 keynote speaker Debra Rienstra celebrates in her book "Refugia Faith: Seeking Hidden Shelters, Ordinary Wonders, and the Healing of the Earth,"
Drawing upon the biological concept of refugia—little pockets of safety where life persists in times of disaster— she suggests that this is a moment when people of faith are called to be people of spiritual refugia. In-person registration is limited to 100 participants. Learn more and register here."
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Save the date for Presiding Bishop-elect Rowe’s
installation service
Published by the Episcopal Office of Public Affairs
"As announced at the close of the 81st General Convention, the installation of Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe will be a simpler, scaled-down event this fall with a view toward reducing carbon footprint and increasing virtual engagement and participation.
The installation service will take place on Nov. 2 at the Chapel of Christ the Lord in The Episcopal Church Center in New York City with a prelude beginning at 10 a.m. ET and the service starting at 11 a.m. ET.
There will be an extensive livestream production to support churchwide access and participation.
All are welcome and encouraged to attend virtually."
More information will follow at a later date.
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OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES | |
Sunday 5:15PM Service of Holy Eucharist | |
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The 5:15PM Service is a lay-lead worship service of Holy Eucharist and meditation which gathers each Sunday in Emmanuel Chapel. Each week we welcome a member of the clergy to celebrate the Holy Eucharist.
The service invites all in attendance into a space of quiet and stillness, with music, scripture, and reflections.
We look forward to welcoming you to future services. Please join us!
With questions about the service please contact Liz Parsons.
Below are photos from previous services along with a reflection offered by parishioner, Phyllis Wilkins.
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Parishioner Eleanor Roberts offers a reflection | |
The Reverend Christopher Worthley, celebrates The Holy Eucharist | |
The Altar Prepared for Service | |
Click here to read a reflection offered by parishioner Phyllis Wilkins on July 7 | |
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Contribute to St. Luke’s Summer Music Ministry
The Cathedral Choir is on 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Volunteer to Serve on the Altar Guild
Volunteering with Altar Guild is fun and rewarding.
Together, the Altar Guild works to enable our congregation to engage in worship that is filled with order, beauty, peace, and tranquility.
For more information, contact Kate Leschey or Rita Siavelis.
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Access Your Realm Profile
The Cathedral’s online database, Realm, is a useful tool for parishioners to manage their contact and pledging information.
Realm helps our community by improving our record keeping in a more streamlined fashion.
When joining Realm you can sign-up to be a part of the online directory in the database.
To activate your Realm profile please contact our financial administrator Nina Andersen.
Nina will assist you with the few steps necessary to access your profile.
We look forward to sharing this exciting new technology with you!
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Parish Notes
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Cathedral Pick-Up Choir: Today, July 28, meet in the choir room at 8:45AM
- Joyce Walsh Service in Celebration of Life: Wednesday, July 31 at 11:00AM in the cathedral nave. Light Refreshments to Follow in the Upper Hall
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Nancy Beebe Service in Celebration of Life: Saturday, August 3 at 11:00AM in the Cathedral Nave. Light Refreshments to Follow in the Upper Hall
- Baptism for Henry Watson, Grandson of John Watson and Nancy Brain, Sunday August 4, during 10AM Eucharist
- The Reverend Rebecca Grant away August 8-13
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Weekly Ministries
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The Food Pantry is open from 8 am to 11 am every Thursday.
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The Tuesday 12:10 Eucharist is offered every week in Emmanuel Chapel in-person and on Zoom.
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Compline is offered weekly on Friday from 8-8:30pm on Zoom.
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Click on the logo above to learn about all that is happening in the wider Diocese.
https://episcopalmaine.org
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(207)-772-5434
Email
Physical Address:
143 State Street, Portland, ME 04101
Parking Available at:
134 Park Street, Portland, ME 04101
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 4141, Portland, ME 04101
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