Join us tonight, May 3, from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. for the Empty Bowl Supper at St. Brendan Parish Hall.

This is a benefit for the Deer Isle-Stonington After School Program.

The bulletin can be found here.

All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.

9:00 a.m. Welcoming and Hospitality Ministry Meeting (Zoom)

4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom)

7:30 a.m. – 12 Noon Vigil for Skip and Allen

10:00 a.m. In-Person Meditation/Silent Prayer

10:30 a.m. Bible Study

4:00 p.m. Choir rehearsal

10:00 a.m. Garden Clean-up Day

Women's Retreat: Mark your calendar now - All women are invited

"Love on the Road to Gaza"

Sermon given by The Rev. Jennifer Reece on April 28th.

Click below for the video recording.

We are grateful for a clean roadside between Hardy Hill's Road and the Nursing Home.

Our thanks to the ten St. Brendan members who helped with this effort after our Sunday service.

The Brooklin Garden Club strikes again!

This past Monday, their lovely vases of daffodils accompanied soup deliveries.

We give thanks for the joy they bring to others.

Elaine Hewes: I am grateful for sunrise at Schoodic Point. Who but the Episcopal clergy in Maine would be able to have their annual clergy conference in such a place?

The Episcopal Church has been dedicated to reducing the impact of climate change and global warming for years and sees the care of God's creation and its connection to human health as an important part of our faith. 

Right now, there is an Action Alert from the National Episcopal Church asking us to write to our Representatives and Senators to ask them to co-sponsor the Green New Deal for Health Act (S.1229/H.R.2764), which addresses the link between the US public health system and the environment.

Please click here, then scroll down and click "Support the Environment and Public Health" to learn more about this legislation and who is presently a co-sponsor (no one from Maine!). Fill out the form on the page to ask your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor the Green New Deal for Health Act.

Thank you!

Judy Miller's sister, Carlotta, was a dear friend of the St. Brendan community, and we mourn her passing.

You can read her obituary here.

Carlotta spent a good deal of time at St. Brendan in the summer and enjoyed worshipping, partying, and growing in faith with us. For those of us who would like to honor Carlotta by giving a memorial gift in her name, Judy said Caroltta would be so happy to have them given to St. Brendan. Such gifts are one way we have to express our gratitude for Carlotta's presence in the life of our community.

We continue to pray for Judy and her family as they gather this weekend at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, New Jersey, to commend Carlotta into the fullness of God's love.

". . . You cannot remain fruitful unless you remain in me’'

Join us for Meditation/Silent Prayer

period of silence.

Our Wednesday morning Bible study will offer an in-depth study of two of the four texts appointed for the coming Sunday. It will be helpful if you bring your Bible with you whether you come in person or over Zoom because we will read other passages.

Bill Scaife – 1

Ann Tarlton – 4

Jennifer Reece – 5

Ron Dahlen – 5

Rich Paget – 5

Cynthia Pease – 8

Meg Graham – 12

Neil Haley – 13

Kaz Pickens – 15

Tom Yaroschuk – 17

Anne Burton – 22

Bunny Reardon – 27

Sidney Peck – 30

Because of maintenance on Bishopswood, the wonderful St. Brendan Women’s Retreat is a week

earlier than usual this year — Tuesday, August 27 to August 30. All women are welcome.

More information will follow.

We hold in prayer Judy Miller, whose sister Carlotta died recently. We pray also for her family and

all who mourn Carlotta's death.

We pray for those in special need:

In the last weeks of Eastertide, our liturgical readings explore the results of the dying and rising of Jesus. Both the Gospel reading and the reading from

1 John speak of the self-giving love of God, revealed in Jesus’ Passover from death to life, as the primary characteristic of our lives in Christ.

In this Sunday’s reading from Acts, Peter and some other Jewish Christians were astounded to see Gentiles in the household of Cornelius receive the Holy Spirit just as they had on the Day of Pentecost. Peter’s last reservations about welcoming Gentiles into the Church are erased and he and the other joyfully lead them to the waters of Baptism.

This Sunday was once called Rogation Sunday because medieval Christians went in processions (rogating) around the parish praying for the newly planted crops during this week. This is a good time to seek more effective ways to care for our environment and to witness that God’s love is not only for humanity but also for the entire creation.

Joined together by God’s spirit in baptism, bound up in the dying and rising of Jesus, related by creation to all the earth, we the people of God bring all our lives and one another into the saving love of God in 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

Dan Reardon-Treasurer

Jack Beaudoin-Clerk