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Events and News from the Parish of St. Andrew & St. John View this email in your browser Worship Schedule St. John the Divine 315 Main Street, Southwest Harbor 244-3229   The Rev. Mary-Carol Griffin has put together Morning Prayer for Sunday, April 19th. The bulletin will be mailed in a separate email tomorrow. Links to other churches: 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     Reflections by Pamela Smith: WORDS on the screen... So many words Filling our inboxes Eager to distract Determined to assuage.   In response to such overload, I am offering an embodied practice... a ritual, ancient in its inception, limitless in its expression: PRAYER TIES. I found them first in Ireland: strips of cloth, sometimes little sachets; Tucked in stone crevices, Dangling from tree branches, Nestling in the hedgerows, Each strip or sachet containing a unique intention, symbols of prayer for healing, courage, wisdom, patience, universal cries of the human spirit. Some were fading, others newly placed.   In a spirit of meditation, I invite you to make your OWN bundle using a guideline I adapted from Richard Rohr.   • cut cotton or wool cloth into 4x4 squares • place a symbol of your prayer intent in the center….    perhaps a seed, a feather, a stone, a written word. • Identify your outdoor sacred space    (many options on this beautiful island);    place your bundle with a prayer of Gratitude • Over the next fifty days of Easter,    make your way to this place.    Be with your prayer tie;    let your heart relax and soften;    knowing, that in the swirl of our world's suffering and         heartache; our ambiguity , and uncertainty,    God remains steadfastly present.   "When our hearts are wintry, grieving, or in pain, Thy touch can call us back to life again. Fields of our hearts that dead and bare have been: LOVE is come again like wheat that springeth green."                                                     {hymnal 1982 # 204}         St. John's Calendar The full St. John's Calendar can be viewed <HERE>.  All meetings have been cancelled until further notice.     At St. John's 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.    Give thanks for the lives of Tom Haertel, Carl Schmidt and Marty Feldman who died recently. Keep their family and friends in your prayers.   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 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. YARD SALE The sale is tentatively scheduled for June 5 and 6 but may be postponed until fall. If you are cleaning out your house (since you now have some free time at home) we ask that you keep the items that you wish to donate until we are able to open up St. Andrew's.             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.       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.     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         Stephen Sampson, Music Director Michele Daley, Parish Administrator (244-3229) Sr. Warden, Gen MacKenzie (244-7313) Jr. Warden, Ted Fletcher (244-5225) The Church Office is open Monday and Thursday 8:30 - 2:30 (244-3229) Copyright © 2020 St. Andrew & St. John Episcopal Church, All rights reserved. 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