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St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church
Our Mission: "To Love, Praise, Welcome and Serve"
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 12, 2024
The Spring Clean Up is ON for tomorrow, Saturday, May 11th!

The weather looks decent. All are invited to come and lend a hand.
Bring your favorite gardening tools.
Worship this Sunday:

10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
The Rev. Stephen Hayward, presiding
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.
Weekly Calendar
All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.
Saturday, May 11
10:00 a.m. Garden Clean-up Day is ON - Please bring your gardening tools and join us!
Monday, May 13
4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom)
Wednesday, May 15
8:30 a.m. Vestry meeting
10:00 a.m. In-Person Meditation/Silent Prayer
10:30 a.m. Bible Study
4:00 p.m. Choir rehearsal
Sunday, May 19
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with Pastor Elaine Hewes presiding
Looking Ahead
Monday, May 20
10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Kindness Rock painting session
Tuesday, August 27 to August 30
Women's Retreat: Mark your calendar now - All women are invited
Sixth Sunday of Easter
The agape kind of love is not easy. It’s a work in progress, a moving toward, a becoming, day by day, in gestures and practices of caring that put the good of “the other” above our own… How we get there is where we’ll arrive, and walking in one another’s shoes for a time is part of the “how.” 

Sermon given by Pastor Elaine Hewes on May 5th.
Click below for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
The Gratitude Corner
We are deeply grateful for Allen and Skip's successful surgeries this past Tuesday.
We give thanks for their medical teams and the care they received at Maine Medical Center.

From Donna Downs: Allen is home. He was discharged from the hospital Thursday afternoon. He is doing well and is on the mend. Now, he needs to rest and move about. Skip is doing well and looks really good.
Giving our Priorities Shape (GPS) Action Item
Opportunity to learn about how to start a pollinator garden!

Saturday, May 18, 9:30 -10:30, at Chase Memorial Library  (deerislelibrary.org)
with Brighid Doherty of the Garden Project

and Save the Date for Monarch Morning - a Celebration of Pollinators
with Brighid at the Garden Project
(Stonington Transfer Station) on Saturday, June 15, 9-11 a.m.

Visit Thegardenprojectme.org to learn more about events open to the public as well as wonderful learning opportunities offered there weekly for the Mariners Soar After School Program.
From our Library
NEEDED: New Revised Standard Version of the Bible

Elaine has asked if the Library could obtain copies of the NRSV Bible used by our Wednesday Bible study group. If you have an extra and are willing to donate, leave it for Mickey at the church. Thank you.
Education & Spiritual Development Ministry

". . . You cannot remain fruitful unless you remain in me’'
John 15: 4

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.
Join us for Meditation/Silent Prayer every Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
in-person before Bible Study
Bible Study

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.
Pastoral Care Ministry
May Birthdays
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

News from Near and Far
The University of Maine Center on Aging Senior Companion Program was awarded a grant to teach Mental Health First Aid classes in rural towns. Stonington was chosen as one of the communities. More participants are needed to bring this training to our area at no cost to the library or community members.

The class is scheduled for May 22 at the Stonington Public Library from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., with a half-hour for lunch and two 15-minute breaks. The flyer below gives a synopsis of the program. Questions and to register, contact Laurie at 207-262-7915 or email laurie.bishop@maine.edu
In Our Prayers
We pray for those in special need:
Semantha
Emily Gibson
Donna and Allen
Joe Lucas
Sandy
Beth and Tito Kyzer
Judy
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
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
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.
We pray, also, for those who love and care for them.
We continue to hold in prayer those in our community who have recently lost loved ones; among them are the Miller/Budd, 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.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Patrick, Brewer; St. George, York Harbor; for postulants and candidates for Holy Orders in the Diocese of Maine.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for The Anglican Church of Burundi.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for Eggemoggin Baptist Church, Sedgwick.
Scripture Notes
Seventh Sunday of Easter

Today we begin the final week of celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. Each Sunday during these fifty days, we have explored some aspect of our baptism
into the dying and rising of Jesus. Today’s Gospel reading is a portion of Jesus’ prayer for his disciples on the night before he died. In that prayer, he asked the Father to unite us with him and to give us the same mission and grace the Father gave to him.

The sense of unity within the fellowship of Jesus’ disciples was reflected in the period between his ascension and the day of Pentecost. We hear about the most significant event during that period in the first reading today when, under Peter’s leadership, the disciples chose a replacement for Judas.

The reading from 1 John also reflects the theme of unity between Jesus and the Father, and between Jesus and us.

Our life in Christ is the gift of God in and through the resurrection. That new life by water and the Holy Spirit will be our theme next week when, on the fiftieth day of Easter, we rejoice that we are filled with the Spirit of God.

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
Links
Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Pastor Elaine Hewes
Tel: 207-479-5651


Emergency Contacts:
Allen Downs, Warden
(207) 348-2560
George Pazuniak, Warden     
Tel: 207-359-8576
Vestry Members:
Dan Reardon-Treasurer
Jack Beaudoin-Clerk
Meg Graham
Marilyn Verhey
Beth Carter
ST. BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR EPISCOPAL CHURCH, P.O. Box 305, 627 NORTH DEER ISLE ROAD, DEER ISLE, ME 04627
(207)348-6240 OFFICE@STBRENDANS-ME.ORG