St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church
Our Mission: "To Love, Praise, Welcome and Serve"
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost |
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Worship this Sunday:
10 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Rev. Barbara Lundblad, preaching
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Scripture Readings for this Sunday (Notes are below)
The bulletin can be found here.
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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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12 noon Family Fun Bike Ride from St. Brendan's to Reach Beach
(more info below)
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4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom) |
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9:15 a.m. Pastoral Care Ministry meeting (Zoom)
10:30 a.m. Bible Study: Joan Maxwell on Lectio Divina
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10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Pastor Elaine preaching
40th Anniversary celebration of our church following the service
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7:00 p.m. "Marian Anderson" concert at Emlen Hall |
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5:00 p.m. Celtic Eventide |
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7:00 p.m. Brooklin Band Concert at St. Brendan |
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3:00 p.m. "The Voyages of St. Brendan" -- Talk by Hugh Curran |
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Women's Wilderness Retreat |
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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost |
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Sermon given by Rev. Jennifer Reece on July 24th.
Click below for the video recording.
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On Sunday afternoon, almost fifty people gathered to hear Cynthia Bourgeault speak about her new book The Corner of Fourth and Nondual. Click below to view this enlightening presentation. |
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A fabulous lobster picnic was enjoyed by our members and their guests this past Saturday. A thousand thanks to Skip Greenlaw and Judy Miller for once again organizing this event. Thanks, too, to Jane LaChance and the ever-helpful Welcoming and Hospitality Ministry for assisting. |
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No words describe how lucky we are to have these two women part of our St. Brendan story.
This photo was taken before Cynthia Bourgeault's talk on Sunday afternoon.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
During these times of strong opinions and inflamed rhetoric, the art of compassionate listening has all but been forgotten. The capacity to really listen to another person’s story or viewpoint without trying to figure out what we’re going to say next (while we’re supposedly “listening”) is one of the greatest gifts we can give to one another. But it takes intention and practice and some “learning” to truly begin incorporating the gift of “holy listening” into our everyday lives.
To that end, I have included two links to the Daily Meditations of Father Richard Rohr from this past week. These meditations are a place to begin thinking about the challenge and the gift of “holy/compassionate listening.” I encourage all of us (including myself) to consider finding ways to practice the wisdom shared in these meditations. Perhaps this kind of listening is at the heart of what the writer of Ephesians is talking about when he writes to the Christians in Ephesus, “Lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
When Martin Luther was asked to draw a picture of a Christian, he drew a picture of an ear. And while it’s assumed that Luther was speaking about the importance of keeping one’s ears open to hear God’s Word, I wonder if perhaps we might also consider his picture of the ear as a challenge to keep our ears open to hear what others have to say, in that deeper sense of “holy listening.”
Perhaps we might try it and see what happens.
Pastor Elaine
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One way to "love our neighbors" is to go bike riding with them! Please join us for the "Family/Community Bike Ride" on Sunday, July 31 at 12:30 starting from the St. Brendan parking lot. Who knows what new friends you might make?
- Many of our neighbors are having difficulty paying the high prices of gas, which affects their ability to get to work and appointments. Please consider purchasing a gas card from a local gas station and putting it in the "gas pump" which you will find in the narthex at church. We will give them to Community Compass Navigators for disbursement to those who need help with the cost of fuel. This is one more way to "love our neighbor."
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Stewardship Committee Report
Our heartfelt thanks are extended to Barbara Kourajian for writing our stewardship letter for 2023. By the time you receive this notice in the Navigator, you should have received Barbara’s letter.
One year ago members of St. Brendan pledged $125,000. This was an incredible 23% increase over the previous year’s pledges. Quite an accomplishment!!
Members of the Finance Committee have consulted each other to set a stewardship goal. We decided that if everyone could maintain their pledge from last year the church’s finances would continue to be in very good shape.
Our goal is to have the pledging completed by August 21, and perhaps we have an informal celebration of our accomplishment on Sunday, August 28.
Thank you, Barbara, again for your thoughtful letter!
Stewardship Committee
Mimi Gerstell, Ann Tarlton, Pete Dane, and Skip Greenlaw
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Click the button below for the GIVING page on our website.
Scroll down to find the Stewardship letter and online pledge form.
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A soup for the senses
The aroma! The color! Monday's Simmering Pot crew prepared a tasty Borscht Soup. As always, an impressive group of volunteers gathered to prepare and deliver 130 quarts of soup.
We will be preparing soup on August 15 and August 22. Stop by to witness love in action and lend a hand. Email Julie Pierson if you are available to help on those dates.
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Family Fun Bike Ride this Sunday
St. Brendan and Healthy Island Project are sponsoring a free community bike ride on Sunday afternoon, July 31, from our parking lot to Reach Beach. This family ride is for adults and children ages 8 and older, who can ride for about 30 minutes at a time. The 4.3-mile ride each way will be led by St. Brendan member Frances Barbour.
Check-in for the ride is 12:00 noon. The ride will start at 12:30 pm after registration and a bicycle check. There is no cost to participate. Click here for the press release about this event. |
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Education & Spiritual Development Ministry |
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Bible Study
Practicing Holy Reading (Lectio Divina) with Joan Maxwell.
10:30 a.m. - Noon (at the church and on Zoom)
Encounter the Word in community with your mind and your heart using a powerful, time-tested, easily understood approach. No experience is necessary. Have a Bible with you.
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He will be silent in his love . . .
Zephaniah 3:17 (THS)
Join us for Meditation/Silent Prayer every Monday at 4:30 p.m.
Readings, poems, and prayers are shared before a
period of sitting together in silence. All are welcome.
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Dan Reardon – 10
Nancy Allison – 12
Diane Greenlaw – 13
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Woody Osborne – 20
Jim White – 22
Susan Wade – 25
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Benefit Concert
A concert to support the George Stevens Academy Refugee Student Education Fund will be held on July 30th at 7 p.m. at the Blue Hill Congregational Church. The Fund will help support an Afghan refugee student who plans to attend GSA this fall.
The church has limited capacity and requests the audience be vaccinated and masked. A live-stream will be available and can be accessed on the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill Facebook page.
To donate to the fund, click here.
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Save the Date!
Performers from Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera will present songs from an original musical based on the life of opera singer Marian Anderson. One of the composers of the musical is Chelsea Davis, a friend of St. Brendan's who has sung at our services on several occasions. The production is in its final stages. Tax-deductible donations will help fund the next phase of the musical's development.
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We hold the Tarlton family in our prayers as they mourn the passing of Peter's brother Lorrin.
May God's strong love comfort all who mourn.
We pray for those in special need:
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Family & friends of Lorrin Tarlton
Little Eagle
Pam Getto
Shirley MacLeod
Susan Wade
Jace
Jaxson
Jacob
Kathy
Jack March
Heather Corey
Brent Was
Annie
Bill Scaife
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Gary and Wellesley
Mary Blanco
Mary Lawrence Hicks and family
Max
Bob Budd and family
Mary Ann Shaw
Seth
Roger
Stephen Gill
Julie and Tom
John Lofty
Peter Brown
Skip Greenlaw
Heather Callister
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The family of Linda Shepard
Curtis
Nick
Julie
Stewart
Marcia Scott
Phoibe DeJesus
Lindsay Bowker
Pastor Edward Dufresne
Nancy Boothby
Ana
Nancy Stearns
Isabelle H.
Tony Stoneburner
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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 Scaife, Reardon, Walkling, Reece, Hines, Hutchinson, Greene, Flowers, and Jacob 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; Suheil, 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. Christopher’s by the Sea, Winter Harbor; St. George’s Chapel, Tenants Harbor and for those incarcerated, those who love them and those who minister to them.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for The Church of the Province of West Africa.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for Eggemoggin Baptist Church, Sedgwick.
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
In today’s liturgy, we are confronted with the radical shift in our values brought about by our union with Christ in baptism. In the gospel reading, Jesus is asked to settle a property dispute between two brothers. Instead, he warns against placing our highest value in material acquisition, for that value is a fleeting and uncertain one. Our highest value should be our relationship with God, which alone is permanent and certain.
In the first reading, we have the wise reflections of a person who found that spending one’s life on the accumulation of material goods is an empty project. It is “vanity and striving after wind.”
In the passage from Colossians, Paul describes the new way of living which belongs to those unified with Christ in baptism. As people who have put on the new nature, our behavior toward others is transformed; our relationships with others are no longer based on human values or differences; and our lives consist of joy, peace, forgiveness, and thanksgiving.
When we present to God the work of human hands in bread and wine and gifts of our material possessions, we are placing our lives into a new and transforming relationship with God. Our relationship toward the material world is likewise transformed. We are put right in our relationship with God, with others, with ourselves, and with the material world. Then we are sent out to live in that new relationship each day.
From 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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Nathan Dane, Warden
Tel: 207-348-5245
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George Pazuniak, Warden
Tel: 207-359-8576
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Bill Scaife-Treasurer
Curtis Flowers-Clerk
Meg Graham
Tom van Buren
Jane LaChance
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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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