Join Us for Worship Sunday, July 24:
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
8:00 am Morning Prayer
St. Andrew by-the-Lake, Seal Cove
Officiant: Emily Carter, Summer Seminarian click here for bulletin 9:00 am Holy Eucharist *
Note: David Dawson will provide music before the service, starting at 8:30!
Church of Our Father, Hulls Cove
Celebrant: The Rev. Holly Hoffmann click here for bulletin 11:00 am Holy Eucharist *
St. Saviour's Parish, Bar Harbor
Celebrant: The Rev. Holly Hoffmann click here for bulletin 5:00 pm Holy Eucharist*
(followed by IN-PERSON "Listening Session" outside and with food) St. John the Divine, Southwest Harbor Celebrant: The Rev. Holly Hoffmann click here for bulletin *= these services will be streamed to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MDIEPISCOPAL
Shared Worship services on the island will resume in October.
You can always look to the online calendar to see the service schedule: | | | | Midweek Holy Eucharist on MDI
Wednesdays at Church of Our Father at 8 am
Using the readings appointed for the day in the Book of Common Prayer,
we will have a service Holy Eucharist.
On the first Wednesday of the month, we will use a Rite I liturgy. | | Covid Precautions: If you are exhibiting any of the symptoms of Covid, please choose to attend a service online. Our Covid protocols will be followed: Vaccinations expected, unless medically prohibited
Everyone masked indoors
Socially distanced seating is available, not required
Communion in one-kind, bread only
Outdoor coffee hour, weather permitting
Sanitize your hands prior to receiving Communion.
God bless you for keeping our church, our community,
and our loved ones safe. If you or a close contact tests positive for Covid, please let Mother Holly know so we can support you in your recovery and communicate with the community as necessary about their possible exposure to the virus while maintaining confidentiality and pastoral privacy. | | | Assisting at Services
If you are returning to MDI for the summer, perhaps you would enjoy serving on Sundays! We would love your support for our worship services:
Acolytes, Greeters/Ushers, Lectors, Intercessors, Altar Guild, Flower Guild and Officiants for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer (at St. John's). If you would like to help at any of our services, please contact the parish administrator of your church. Thank you!
| | | Please Wear Your Name Tag to Church Remember that wearing your name tag at worship is helpful to each other, Mother Holly, supply clergy, and to visitors! If you would like a new name tag, contact your Parish Administrator. | | | Pastoral Care Requests Holy Communion: If you are unable to attend an in-person worship service and would like Holy Communion brought to you, please contact the church office (contact information is at the bottom of this email). We will arrange a time for the clergy, our Pastoral Care Associate Maribeth Payne, or a Eucharistic Visitors to bring the Sacrament to your home or hospital bedside.
Hospital Visits: If you or a loved one is in the hospital, please let Mother Holly know. She is glad to come visit you in the hospital or call you during your stay. | | | Summer Choir at St. Saviour's
During the summer months our choir continues to lead our worship on Sunday mornings, but takes a break from mid-week rehearsals. We meet on Sunday mornings at 10:00 am (an hour before the service begins) to practice service music and (familiar) anthems. This is a very good time for any potential choir-members to join in, to "get their feet wet," and see if this is something they would like to do — or return to doing. Come join in.
Remember what St. Augustine taught: "the person who sings prays twice." | | | NEW MDI EPISCOPAL CHURCH MUSEUM!
The four Episcopal Churches of Mount Desert Island are working to establish a new historical museum located in a beautiful, secured setting at St. Saviour's Church. We have found that there are many, many items of church history hidden away in boxes, closets, etc. that are never seen and should be displayed for all to see. The museum is well underway and will open this summer. This is quite exciting!
We are looking for donations of bookcases, a glass china cabinet, a larger desk, old church history items hidden in parishioners' homes. We will need volunteer docents for times we are open this summer. Please contact Diane Zito, Sue Blaisdell, Joanne Sousa or Lauri Fernald (all listed in the directory) if you can help with any of these items.
Thank you so much! | | | Upcoming Events and Dates | | | July 23: Bagaduce Chorale Concert at St. Saviour's 7:30 pm Come and enjoy this concert and support your fellow parishioners who sing in this choir. Tickets required in advance: https://www.bagaducechorale.org | | | starting July 27: Where Two or Three Are Gathered...
9:30 am on Wed, July 27, August 10, and August 17, at CoOF or on Zoom
 Join us on Wednesday mornings for fellowship and dialogue at Church of Our Father around topics central to our faith as Christians and as Episcopalians: belief and the creeds, the Bible, and the sacraments.
What do these things mean to you? How are they challenging? How have they helped you to grow in love for Christ?
Led by summer seminarian Emily Carter, this discussion series offers an opportunity to connect with the wider MDI Episcopal community, to enrich the faith of your community by sharing your perspective, and to grow together in understanding. To contact Emily by email, click here. Link (click to join): https://yale.zoom.us/j/8812996770?pwd=VC9rdVFsVnpOOVVmbWxiSk9iNXpXdz09 Or input Meeting ID 881 299 6770 and Password 045684 when prompted in Zoom. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God. Colossians 3:16. | | July 27: Taize Prayer Service at Church of Our Father at 5 pm ** MUSICIAN THIS MONTH WILL BE DEBBY GOVENOR,
THE MUSIC DIRECTOR OF SASJ **  | | | August 3: Outreach Meeting, 9 am
The Outreach, Evangelism, and Mission committee meets every first Wednesday at Church of Our Father after 8 am worship. Please join us Wednesday, August 3rd!
We will discuss plans for outreach this summer and look ahead to initiatives for the fall, too. | | | | August 3 at 12:15 pm: Prayers for the Ukraine
at St. Saviour's
Following on from the success of our first prayer service for the Ukraine held at CoOF this spring after  Easter, the members of Outreach committees from each church are planning a second, ecumenical prayer service in downtown Bar Harbor on Wednesday, August 3 at 12:15 pm at St. Saviour's.
We hope the many people who are in town visiting join us in prayer. Music will be provided by Debby Governor, Music Director of St. Andrew and St. John, Southwest Harbor and St. Andrew's Lutheran, Ellsworth. Please plan to join us and invite a friend! | | | The August Organ Recital Series continues this year!
Fridays at 12:15 beginning August 5
Our annual organ-recital series returns on August 5 for its 15th season. It was started in 2007 by Julia Morris-Myers, and has continued since then, featuring mostly regional performers on the Fridays of August, but also bringing in artists from farther afield. This years series will include some familiar faces and some new.
This first program, on Friday 5 August, will be played by Douglas Beck, who is now the priest-in-charge for St. Augustine's Church in Dover-Foxcroft, but before he went off to seminary was active in the Downeast region as an organist, church-musician, and choral-director.
Dr. Terry Yount will play the second program on August 12. Terry is the music-director for St. Andrew's Chapel in Sanford FL; he has also been the organist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the organ-professor at Rollins College.
Katherine Johnson comes from Oberlin College to play the third recital on August 19.
On August 26, the series concludes with a program for organ and flute by Daniel Pyle and his wife, flutist Catherine Bull. | | | August 6: Transfiguration Prayer Hike,
8am on Saturday, August 6th, summitting Sargent Mountain
 Meet the glory of the Lord through the glory of His creation. Walk in the footsteps of Rev. William Reed Huntington, who was inspired to write the Collect for the Feast of the Transfiguration during a hike up Sargent Mountain. Summer Seminarian Emily Carter will lead the hike and officiate Morning Prayer II at the summit. Bring water, a snack, and good sneakers or hiking boots. Emily will provide the written materials for the prayer service. Meet at the Brown Mountain Parking Area. Directions via Google Maps. Directions via Apple Maps. A pass is required to park at the lot - carpooling is encouraged. We will aim to return to the lot by noon, before lunch. The route is 6.5 miles total, with 1300 feet of elevation gain. Find more information here. To contact Emily by email, click here.
O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you, O Father, and you, O Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. | | | August 14: Meeting of the MDI Partnership Churches
on the lawn of St. John the Divine, Southwest Harbor
4:00 PM – Meeting following on from our parish "listening sessions"
5:00 PM – Holy Eucharist
6:00 PM – Potluck
Members from St. Andrew & St. John are to bring SALADS or SIDE DISHES.
Members from Church of Our Father are to bring MAIN DISHES.
Members from St. Saviour's are to bring DESSERTS or BREAD.
ALL members are asked to bring their own place settings (plates, utensils, cups) which will minimize clean up afterwards.
We are also looking for people who are willing to set up and clean up tables and chairs.
Please contact Diane Krueger (239-233-4800) or click here , if you are willing to help. Thank you! | | August Stained Glass Talks
at St. Saviour's on August 23 at 6 pm,
and at St. John the Divine, September 18 after 5 pm worship.  | | | Ways to Support Those Suffering from Violence in Ukraine
Continue to pray for Ukraine and those in danger.
Collect for Peace from the BCP:
Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity your dominion may increase until the earth is filled with the knowledge of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Members of the Partnership parishes gathered in the first week of the month to discuss Outreach projects for the spring. There was a strong desire to focus our energies on promoting organizations that are helping those living in the Ukraine. Two organizations that are being recommended are:
Episcopal Relief and Development is working closely with Anglican agencies and ecumenical partners to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of Ukrainian refugees in Europe. People quickly packed up and fled Ukraine to safety and are now in need of basic supplies and will need long-term support. Your contribution to the Episcopal Relief & Development International Disaster Response Fund will help provide clothing, food, water and other items. For more information on this organization, including instructions on how to give, visit: www.episcopalrelief.org or call 1.855.312.4325
Save the Children: UKRAINE CRISIS RELIEF FUND Ukraine's children are in grave danger of physical harm, severe emotional distress and mass displacement. Save the Children is concerned for children caught in the middle of armed conflict, forced from their homes in freezing temperatures, and exposed to injury, hunger and cold. Your donation to Save the Children's Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund can help provide children and families with immediate aid, such as food, water, hygiene kits, psychosocial support and cash assistance. Together, we can protect children in crisis. For more information on this organization, including instructions on how to give, visit: https://www.savethechildren.org
| |  Bar Harbor Food Pantry for Rest of July Once again thanks to all who have given in these times. Going forward, the Food pantry greatly appreciates our offerings of coffee/tea, cooking oil and jam and jelly. They hope we still continue that. However, they are also in need of the following from their Facebook page: (not surprising) diapers, baby food and snacks and formula.
So I pose this to all: Give to any and all I have listed.
Thank you for your support. Brad Berry | | | Sunday Fellowship Outdoors
As the warm weather returns, we will be having time after the services of worship for fellowship outside.
If you are interested in assisting with refreshments for these times, please be in touch with the parish administrator of your church, and she will connect you with others assisting in this ministry within our community.
At St. John's, speak with Dianne McMullan.
At Church of Our Father, speak with Joanne Sousa. | | | Our MDI Covid Task Force meets regularly to discuss our protocols.
Updates: - An area (not the whole worship space) will be marked off for Social distancing for those who want to sit in an area designated for this seating arrangement
- Guests and visitors will be invited at announcements to provide their contact information, should they want to be notified of a possible exposure to Covid-19 at worship service.
- Due to being in a high transmission rate according to the CDC, masking will required at all indoor gatherings for all people in attendance in addition to worship.
Note: Full vaccinations expected, unless medically prohibited. | | Age 5+ eligible to schedule COVID-19 vaccination,
Age 12+ eligible for booster COVID-19 vaccination and booster shots are available by appointment at the Community Health Center, Cooper Gilmore, Trenton Health Center,
and Carroll Drug Store.
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is the only vaccine currently authorized for children ages 5-17. Everyone age 12+ is eligible for a booster shot. You must be 5 months past your second dose of Pfizer/Moderna or 2 months past your first dose of Johnson & Johnson to receive a booster dose. If you would like to schedule a COVID-19 vaccination or booster, please call one of our vaccination sites below or check our Bar Harbor Regency Clinic calendar. COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are also available by appointment at local pharmacies in Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Ellsworth. Call now to schedule your vaccine or booster (Pfizer/Moderna/J&J): Cooper Gilmore Health Center: 207-288–5024 17 Hancock Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 Community Health Center: 207-244–5630 16 Community Lane, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 Trenton Health Center: 207-667–5899 394 Bar Harbor Road, Trenton, ME 04605 Carroll Drug Store carrolldrugstore.net 3 Village Green Way, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 | | | | The FDA has authorized a 3-dose primary series of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for children 6 months through 4 years of age. A 3-dose vaccination series is Authorized for Emergency Use in individuals 6 months through 4 years of age. The initial 2 doses are administered 3 weeks apart followed by a third dose administered at least 8 weeks after the second dose. The vaccine may not protect everyone. To learn more, please see the Recipients and Caregivers Fact Sheet (6 months through 4 years of age) here. Emergency Use Authorization Emergency uses of the vaccine have not been approved or licensed by FDA, but have been authorized by FDA, under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for use in individuals 6 months of age and older. The emergency uses are only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of the medical product under Section 564(b)(1) of the FD&C Act unless the declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner. Click on the link below for more information and talk to your child's pediatrician. | | | Covid Home Tests Extend Shelf Life The US Food and Drug Administration has extended the dates for at home rapid tests for Covid. For more information and a list of test kits to which this applies, click here. | | | ** Get free at-home COVID-19 tests ** 1) Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests.
The tests are completely free. Orders will usually ship in 7-12 days.
Order your tests now so you have them when you need them: https://www.covidtests.gov
Project ACT
2) Additional Free Tests can be ordered for those living in some communities in Hancock County. Search by Zip Code: https://www.accesscovidtests.org | | | | Youth & Family Formation
Children's Faith Formation at Home on MDI Brad Berry and Chris Krenicki of Church of Our Father send home materials to support faith formation at home monthly for elementary and middle school aged youth. If you would like to receive these materials or be notified when in person events are happening here for youth in this age range, please be in touch with the parish office. Contact information is at the bottom of this email.
All monthly programming, including the Pray, Play, Connect group for middle and high schoolers, the Let's Talk About It group for high schoolers, and the Formation Folk gathering is on summer vacation. Play, Pray, Connect will start up again in September. We'll be switching to Third Fridays, so mark your calendars. Our new musician, Pyam Morin, will lead this amazing group! We'll keep up our theme of Role Playing Games, so feel free to spend the summer dreaming up new characters!
 Connect with other Episcopal Maine households walking the path of faith via this private Facebook group. Our team will provide curated resources, and we will be resources for one another.
| Episcopal Maine Youth of all ages | | | All monthly programming, including the Pray, Play, Connect group for middle and high schoolers, the Let's Talk About It group for high schoolers, and the Formation Folk gathering is on summer vacation. Play, Pray, Connect will start up again in September. We'll be switching to Third Fridays, so mark your calendars. Our new musician, Pyam Morin, will lead this amazing group! We'll keep up our th | | | | | |
