Worship Schedule St. John the Divine 315 Main Street, Southwest Harbor
244-3229
WORSHIP ON MDI during Holy Week
Maundy Thursday
St. Mary & St. Jude has a service regarding "shared servanthood"
Good Friday – 12:00 noon
The Rev. John Burton and St. John's will provide a short liturgy with a meditation considering sacred space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaNyST7BJQ
Easter Sunday – 10:00 a.m.
The Rev. John Burton and St. Saviour's Parish
MDI EPISCOPAL – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-fGpm4_aFoi0mNvMiXhSwg
Links to other churches:
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church invites you to the Great Vigil of Easter
Saturday, April 11th, 2020 at 8:00 PM EDT on SMAADallas
Join us for one of our favorite worship services of the year,
and the first celebration of Easter!
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Cathedral of St. Luke is https://zoom.us/j/6894391895 (website is stlukesportland.org for info)
National Cathedral in Washington DC is https://cathedral.org/worship/service-archive/ (website is cathedral.org)
St. John the Divine is temporarily closed.
If you need access or need to talk with someone, please call
Gen MacKenzie, 244-7313
Ted Fletcher, 266-8415 Dear All,
Another week has passed with both St. Andrew and St. John closed. However, with the ingenuity of the Dioceses, clergy and our Partnership churches, services have continued. We have been able to participate remotely on MDI Youtube and Zoom. This has allowed us to remain actively worshiping during this holy season and to remain connected with each other. Our MDI Partnership and its members have helped make this possible.
Both the Food Pantry and Backpack programs have continued at a demanding pace with the help and generosity of many. The April 5th Food Pantry distribution proceeded well. The Backpack numbers have increased and this week includes a $10 food gift certificate to Gotts Store. Red Sky and Sips 2.0 are providing free meals during the week for children in need. The Backpack program has made donations to this effort.
The nominating committee continues their search for vestry members. Please don't hesitate to contact Pamela Smith, Andrew McMullan or myself with possible nominees. There are a number of open positions. Please remember your Vestry represents you!
This is a time in which we are all rightfully and wonderfully focused on the needs of others. Please keep in mind that to continue the operations of the church and to remain financially secure your pledges are needed. They can be mailed to the church.
May we continue to seek God's strength and guidance during this uniquely challenging time. May we be creative and flexible in our thinking and action with God's help.
A blessed Holy Week and Easter,
Gen and Ted
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St. John's Calendar
The full St. John's Calendar can be viewed <HERE>.
All meetings have been cancelled until further notice.
Keep in your prayers this week:
Jeremy Harkins, Michael Shook, Joyce and Jim Risser, Loretta Schmidt, Susannah Jones, Theresa Mitchell, David Douglass, George Harorack, Fred & Dollis Sprague, Sara Winchenbach, Dorothea Mead, Ray McDonald, Richard Ramsdell, Cassandra Crabtree, Beth Pfeiffer, Dorothy & Jim Clunan, Bill and Barbara Loveland.
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At St. John's Check out our website: www.saintsmdi.org
Thanks to Stephen Sampson, Jayne Ashworth and Michael Shook, you may enjoy some piano music on the St. Andrew & St. John website. On the menu on the left-hand side of the home page there is now a link titled 'Music,' and clicking on that link brings you to recordings of piano pieces by Stephen Sampson.
Westside Food Pantry We invite you to visit the new page for the Westside Food Pantry! On this facebook page you will find periodic announcements and information about the Westside Food Pantry. Please visit the page and like it. You can find it at:
https://www.facebook.com/WestsideFoodPantry/
Upcoming distribution Sundays are as follows: April 5 and 19, May 3 and 17. The first Sunday distribution hours are 12 noon to 2 PM, the second Sunday hour is 12 noon to 1 PM. Distribution will be held at St. John's. Dear Friends,
This is a brief note to let you know how Sunday's "walk-up window" distribution went. I believe it met our goal to provide an expedited distribution as safely as possible. The emphasis was on speed, social distancing, and minimum face-to-face contact between volunteers and neighbors. Due to the way the data base was configured for this distribution, I don't have exact counts or statistics for April 5, but I estimate that we distributed approximately 75-80 envelopes containing pre-labeled vouchers and registered 4 new households. I want to extend my sincerest "thank you" to Sunday's team that carried out this distribution: Barbara Campbell, Beth Renault, Susan Buell, and Dean Henry. We had almost universal cooperation from everyone involved--good social distancing practices and I saw plenty of faces covered. I am confident that we will be utilizing the same procedures for the April 19, May 3, and 17 distributions.
I want to remind you that thanks to Jayne Ashworth, we now have a Westside Food Pantry Facebook page. I'm advised that it helps if those of you who use Facebook would visit the page and "like" it.
Please know how much our neighbors appreciated all the effort and work that you supplied in preparing for Sunday's safe distribution. Everyone of our neighbors, and all of the volunteers have been effected by this national emergency. With you, I am pleased that we were able to deliver the help we did yesterday when it would seem to be most needed.
All my best to you in your quarantines,
Dean
Backpack Program
The mission of the Back Pack Program has always been to provide food to at risk children at Pemetic and Tremont Schools. Our numbers were unusually small last fall and into the new year until the school closure due to the pandemic threat. At that point overnight we went from low teens to now 42 students.
We have tried to use creative ways to get more food to children especially those that depend on 2 meals a day 5 days a week at school.
Week one the BP Program donated money to James and Elizabeth at Red Sky for providing takeout lunches free to children. The second week we included vouchers to Sips 2.O for takeout food followed by vouchers for cereal, milk bread etc. from the Southwest Foodmart for week three. This fourth week, Gotts Store vouchers for takeout food were included in the usual packs.
Hansens Outpost will be next weeks business as we provide support for our community as well as feeding our children in these volatile times.
Thanks be to God!
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From the Diocese of Maine As a Parish of the Diocese of Maine, we are part of a church family that extends from Kittery to Fort Kent, and connects us to the rest of the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion. We share ministry with our Bishop and with every worshiping community. If you are not subscribed to the Diocesan twice monthly email newsletter, the DioLog, please click [here] to subscribe. If you are subscribed, don't forget to open it and read it every time! There is a lot going on in every corner of the Diocese, and you wouldn't want to miss anything. 6 April 2020
Monday in Holy Week
Dear Friends in Christ:
As Holy Week begins, we are sending you some additional resources to use and to share with your congregations. | | | Finally, below are three videos from the Diocese for Holy Week:
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A Reflection from KC Burton
What which we give bonding to is that which gets built up.
Here's a truth to appreciate in this time when staying abreast with currant news is so stressful. So here is another truth that can be a healthy balancing agent:
"O God of unchangeable power and eternal light
Look favorable on your whole church, that wonderful and sacred mystery,
And by the tranquil operation of your perpetual providence
Carry out the quiet work of our salvation:
And let the whole world feel and see
That things which were cast down are being raised up
And things which had grown old are being made new
And that all things are returning to perfection
From Him from whom they took their origin
Jesus Christ, our Lord" Book of Common Prayer, pgs 291; 515; 528
Book of Common Worship, Church of England, pg 408
Episcopalians pray this during Holy Week, and too, at all ordinations.
Let's liberate it from the prayer book and put it into daily use!
Prayed daily, this focuses attention, and aids perceiving signs of God's perpetual providence. Often small and quiet, but real, present and dynamic: these signs can remind that God is, indeed, always going about God's business of carrying out the work of salvation.
At each day's end, conduct an examen to reflect on, savor, and give thanks for that day's sightings of God's perpetual providence: a healthy supplement for today's times.
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MDI+ Episcopal Churches:
Confidential Prayer Chain: Unlike our published prayer lists, prayer requests that come into the Prayer Chain remain private to the prayer chain itself, which will pray devotedly for one week unless an updated request is made. If you'd like to know more about this or our Pastoral Care Team, please contact our office administrators.
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Community:
A variety of ways exist on Mount Desert Island for people to offer to provide help or to receive help during the current pandemic. Connecting with the people who are coordinating this effort may happen: 1) Via a website - https://www.mdicr.org/ MDI Community Response - much good information there. 2) Via FaceBook - search for the group: MDI Helpers: Pandemic Mutual Aid Join the group and view all the posts. 3) Contact Jessica Stewart, one of the coordinators for the group home (207) 266-0919 email jms733@cornell.edu 4) https://www.mdislander.com/maine-news/resource-website-aims-to-help-mdi-community
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