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. Service of Healing with Holy Eucharist
The Rev. Andree Appel, reflector
Scripture readings for this Sunday (Notes are below)
The bulletin can be found here.
Join us in-person or online. Click below for the Zoom link.
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All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.
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4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom) |
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10:30 a.m. Bible Study
12:30 p.m. Outreach Ministry meeting (Zoom)
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11:00 a.m. Worship & Music Ministry meeting (Zoom) |
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10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with The Revs. Anne Deneen and
Joe Duggan presiding
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Hancock County Food Drive - See below for more information and
to donate.
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4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Empty Bowl Supper at St. Brendan |
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Holy Week and Easter services |
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Palm Sunday
Click here for The Rev. Emily Blair Stribling's response to the Passion reading.
Maundy Thursday
A text copy of The Rev. Andrew Stoessel's sermon is available here.
Good Friday
The Revs. Donna Downs, Jennifer Reece, and Kim Blocher designed this service,
which used art and music to help us reflect on the reading of John's passion.
Click here for the recording of this service.
The Great Vigil of Easter
Homily given by Pastor Elaine Hewes at the Easter Vigil at St. Francis by the Sea.
Click here for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
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There, under the snow is the rose, the presence of God, promising new life even when we can’t see it… “Eastering back behind our lines,” as one poet has put it… “Eastering back behind our lines of defense, our lines of fear and doubt and shame and grief…” “Eastering back” to make roses from our jagged ragged pieces of apple… “Eastering back” into the frozen landscapes of our lives to speak of a love that is stronger than death…
Sermon given by Pastor Elaine Hewes on Easter Sunday.
Click here for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
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Easter Flowers given in memory of and in thanksgiving for:
Marilyn and Lynn Verhey
Roger Greene
Marian Dobbs
Little Eagle
Clara Dixon
Fran Greenlaw
Mary M. Chewning
David W. Hawkins
Doris and Charles Hewes
Betty Clauson
Pierson Thomas Wolff
For those we have loved and lost
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In thanksgiving for the beautiful morning at the Stonington pier for the Easter Sunrise service.
Pictured are The Revs. Kim Blocher, Andy Stoessel, and Elaine Hewes.
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Lay-led Healing Service this Sunday,
with Andree Appel preaching,
followed by AED and Narcan training
It is our practice to have lay-led Sunday worship services whenever there is a 5th Sunday in a month. But since the fifth Sunday in March fell on Easter, we will have our lay-led service this Sunday, April 7th instead. And as we have been accustomed to doing this year on lay-led Sundays, we will have a service of healing, with hymns and prayers focusing on healing and an opportunity for people to receive a healing blessing during the Eucharist.
Our preacher for this Sunday’s worship service will be Andree Appel, our beloved deacon intern, who was with us at St. Brendan last year as part of her formation in the diaconate program. Andree is an ordained deacon now, serving St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick, and we are so grateful for her willingness to be with us and to preach for us as we consider the theme of healing.
Following worship, we will give everyone a chance to get a cup of coffee and a cookie, and then anyone who is interested will return to the sanctuary for two short presentations related to health and care for others in medical distress: Karen Vickerson will train us to use our AED device, and someone from Opiate Free Island will train us to use Narcan.
It’s a morning devoted to the theme of healing, something we all need in one way or another. And certainly, something the world needs. What a gift it is to be able to gather as a community in the Spirit of the risen Jesus, whose life was dedicated to healing broken hearts, broken relationships and broken communities. What a gift to receive the healing presence of God’s love into our hands and hearts and then to carry that presence of healing and hope into the world… I think it’s called “practicing Easter” (in the name of the One who teaches us how).
Pastor Elaine
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Giving our Priorities Shape (GPS) Action Item |
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The GPS Action item for this week during Eastertide is simply an invitation to enter into the mysteries of God's unfathomable love for us and for the world God so loves and to allow ourselves to be held in that mystery. To allow ourselves to be so immersed in that love that we begin to feel ourselves unbound from the things that hold us captive (such as fear and shame) and set free to be signs of God's love in the times and places in which we live.
Let our GPS Action item for this week be to become "insurrections of resurrection," "little Easters" rising into the grief and suffering of the world around us.
Note: In a recent post, Richard Rohr identifies death and resurrection as the universal pattern of Reality. Read his post here.
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The election of our next Presiding Bishop |
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Four chosen to stand for election
The Episcopal Church’s Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop has announced the names of the bishops it will nominate to succeed Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. Read more about the process here.
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Education & Spiritual Development Ministry |
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". . . in your presence there is fullness of joy . . ."
Psalm 16:11
Join us for Meditation/Silent Prayer
every Monday at 4:30 p.m. by Zoom
Readings, poems, and prayers are shared before a
period of silence.
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Bible Study
Bible Study resumes on Wednesday, April 10 at 10:30 a.m. in-person and on Zoon.
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April is Hancock County Food Drive Month
The Hancock County Food Drive is an annual month-long food collection and fundraising project that supports food pantries, free meal programs, and school backpack programs across Hancock County. These organizations work together every spring to raise funds and collect food, providing critical assistance to Mainers during a time when food insecurity rates are at their highest.
To learn more or donate, click here.
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From Martha and Pete Dane: Budapest |
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Rose Mallinger recited this prayer (Rabbi Nachman's "Prayer for Peace") shortly before she was killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre on October 27, 2018, in Pittsburgh:
May it be the will of the God of all our faiths that you erase war and bloodshed from the world and, in its place, draw down a great and glorious peace so that nations shall not lift up swords against nations, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Rather, may all the inhabitants of the earth recognize and deeply know this great truth: that we have not come into the world for strife and division, nor for hatred and rage, nor provocation and bloodshed.
And so, we ask for compassion and to be raised up by what is written: I shall place peace upon the earth and you shall lie down safe and undisturbed. And I shall banish evil beasts from the earth, and sword shall not pass through your land. But let justice come in waves like water and righteousness flow like a river. For the earth shall be as full of this knowledge as the waters cover the sea.
So may it be, and so we say, Amen.
Note: The Tree of Life building is now being restored. The architect is Daniel Libeskind, who designed the World Trade Center Memorial and the Holocaust Museum in Berlin. The project restores the main sanctuary and creates a memorial park with new construction for the Pittsburgh Holocaust Center and other community organizations.
Submitted by Julie Pierson
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We pray for those in special need:
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Beth and Tito Kyzer
Judy
Carlotta
Megan
Avery
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Bishop Thomas Brown
Naomi
Carol Simanton
Billy Nutter
Theo
Robert B. Tobin
Anne Burton
Hewit
Pat and Dave
Mary Ann and Terry
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Nishah
David Morrish
Corbin
Rebecca
Pam B.
Susan Wade
Jase
Jaxson
Heather Corey
Stephen Gill
Brent Was
Bill Scaife
Stewart and Julie
Gary and Wellesley
Mary Blanco
Mary Lawrence Hicks and family
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Max
Skip Greenlaw
Bob Budd
Nancy
Peter Brown
Nick
Seth
Linda Shepard and family
Mary Ann Shaw
Lindsay Bowker
Nancy Boothby
Marcia Scott
Tony Stoneburner
Carol Stoneburner
Nancy Stearns
Isabelle H.
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We pray, also, for those who love and care for them. |
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We continue to hold in prayer those in our community who have recently lost loved ones; among them are the Verhey, Greene, Adams, Pease, and Leach 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 Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury; Hosam, Bishop of Jerusalem; Michael, our Presiding Bishop; Thomas, our Bishop; for the members of our Vestry; and for all our members, whose ministries are varied and far-reaching.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Margaret, Belfast, for our siblings in common mission in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and for new life in our homes, our families, and our communities.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for The Episcopal / Anglican Province of Alexandria.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for Eggemoggin Reach Society of Friends, Sedgwick.
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Second Sunday of Easter
On this Sunday of Easter we always have as the central reading the account of Jesus’ appearance to the Apostles on Easter Day and on the following Sunday. In that second appearance, Thomas, who had not been with them the first time, comes to believe in the Lord’s resurrection and acclaims Jesus as Lord and God.
The first reading on every Sunday in Eastertide is from the Acts of the Apostles. This book about the life of the early Church as it lived in the joy of the Lord’s resurrection tells us of the character of the early Christians’ corporate life.
This year the second reading comes from the First Epistle of John. This brief epistle is thought to have been written in the last decade of the first century in the author’s old age. In it he reminds his people of the primary characteristic of our Lord, his self-giving love. Our life in the risen Christ is to live out that love for one another. John reminds us that our salvation came by means of Jesus’ death and our baptism into his death.
Each Sunday of the Great Fifty Days is a time to explore the life we share in Jesus Christ dying and rising, a life which begins for each of us at our baptism and which is renewed in us each time we celebrate the Eucharist.
The Rite Light: Reflections 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
Emergency Contacts:
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Allen Downs, Warden
(207) 348-2560
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George Pazuniak, Warden
Tel: 207-359-8576
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Dan Reardon-Treasurer
Jack Beaudoin-Clerk
Meg Graham
Marilyn Verhey
Beth Carter
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ST. BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR EPISCOPAL CHURCH, P.O. Box 305, 627 NORTH DEER ISLE ROAD, DEER ISLE, ME 04627
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