Festival of Flowers

August 15th is the Feast of the Virgin Mary and St. Mary’s by the Sea is celebrating with a festival of flowers and Evensong with Bishop Knudsen at 5:30 PM.

Flower festivals are a tradition in Anglican churches and it is hoped that we launch a tradition here at St. Mary’s. The festival will run through Saturday, August 18th. Throughout the days there will be soft liturgical music playing in the backround to enhance the experience of this beautiful Vaughn designed church. It is hoped that every spot that lends itself to flowers will be filled with them.

If you have flowers in your garden and would like to donate some, or you enjoy flower arranging and would like to furnish an arrangement, please be in touch with Dorothy Clunan at 244-5645, or Kathy Suminsby at 276-5498, . Do plan to visit us for Evensong with the Bishop. We hope it will be a memorable experience for everyone.

Taizé

The Parish of St. Mary & St. Jude is planning to hold a Taizé service on Sunday, the 22nd of October at 5:30 PM in St. Mary’s by-the- Sea. This is the stone church on South Shore Road, (the one that’s been under restoration for the last 4-5 years!) We should be free of most interior scaffolding by that time! If there are any musicians out there that would like to help with this service, please be in touch with Kathy Suminsby at 276-5498. KKS

The Transfiguration window is back!

August 29, 2006

It’s back! The Transfiguration window in the west wall of St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea is finally back in place, a testament to the progress being made in the restoration project. The roof tiling is almost finished, as well, which will allow protective plywood to be removed from many of the other windows and once again the light will stream through the stained glass.

On August 27tth during her visitation , Bishop Knudsen rededicated the Transfiguration window, in memory of William Reed Huntington who wrote the collect for the Feast of the Transfiguration, reportedly while contemplating on the summit of Sargent Mountain. She also gave a short, but delightful, explanation of the composition of the window itself.
KKS

Living History

This Sunday, July 2nd, services at St. Mary’s by- the- Sea (08:00 and 10:30) will be conducted from the prayer book in use at the time of our Founding Fathers. Appointments and vesting will attempt to recreate the service as it would have been in 1776. As always, visitors are welcome. The church is located in Northeast Harbor at the junction of Kimball and South Shore Roads.

The restoration of this Historic Register church continues. The bell is back and pealing again and the Transfiguration window is promised by the middle of July, well before the August 6th date!
KKS

Early Move!

The Parish of SS. Mary & Jude will be moving to St. Mary's by the Sea this Sunday, May 21st (Rogation Sunday) and weather permitting we will process from the chapel to the stone church. We are still under much scaffolding, but have a more workable space than we did last summer, as restoration continues. The good news is that the Transfiguration window should be back in place by early July (the bell tower and bell are already back) and when the apse window comes out for repair, it will be replaced by plexiglass, not plywood! The early morning sun should stream in from the east. For the time being, the single service will be scheduled for 9:30 AM as it has been all winter. Until regular summer services begin, we are experimenting with a different arrangement of the 'cathedral chairs' in order to create a more intimate space. The communion table will be in the trancept since we do not have access to most of the chancel at this point. An active committee is exploring the possibilities to make worship amid scaffolding a positive experience both spiritually and visually. Senior warden (and organist) Peter Vaux can't wait to get his fingers on that keyboard again in a wonderfully acoustic space! Come join us for a Sunday.
KKS

Lenten Study

Beginning March 8th, the Parish of St. Mary & St. Jude will be holding a series of ’soup and study’ suppers, beginning at 6:00PM at the Parish House. The subject for study will be our Baptismal Covenant. Those participating may, if they desire, seek confirmation or reaffirmation on April 12th, Palm Sunday, when Bishop Knudsen visits the Island Episcopal community.
KKS

Pulpit Exchange

Every Lent, the Parish of SS. Mary & Jude and the Union Church of Northeast Harbor (UCC) have two joint services. This year the first will be on March 12th at 09:30 at St. Mary’s Winter Chapel with the Rev. Mac Bigelow as preacher. The following Sunday, March 19th, will be at the Abbey Chapel in Seal Harbor at 10:00 with Fr. Bill Wood preaching.
KKS

Ash Wednesday

The Parish of SS. Mary & Jude will offer a Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes at 5:30 PM. on Ash Wednesday, March 1st at St. Mary’s Winter Chapel at 5 Kimball Road, Northeast Harbor.

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Pulpit Exchange

Every Lent, the Parish of SS. Mary & Jude and the Union Church of Northeast Harbor (UCC) have two joint services. This year the first will be on March 12th at 09:30 at St. Mary’s Winter Chapel with the Rev. Mac Bigelow as preacher. The following Sunday, March 19th, will be at the Abbey Chapel in Seal Harbor at 10:00 with Fr. Bill Wood preaching.
KKS

Taizé

Mark your calendars now! The next Taizé service will be on March 19th at St. Mary’s winter Chapel, 5 Kimball Road, Northeast Harbor, at 5:00 PM. That’s a Sunday evening. If you’ve never attended a Taizé, do give it consideration. It is a quiet meditative service with simple prayers and chants in the monastic tradition-with no sermon and no collection!!
KKS

We Welcome Fr. Bill

This Sunday, February 19th, the Parish of St. Mary & St. Jude’s welcomes the Rev. William Wood as our new priest-in-charge. Wife Susan is still behind in Wichita, KS, left with the duty of selling a house! Hopefully she will be joining us soon. Fr. Bill is anxious to meet everyone and ‘get the lay of the land’ in these parts.

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On the left: Saint Peter’s Catholic Church, Manset

Parish Breakfast in Northeast Harbor

The Parish of SS. Mary & Jude is holding an all parish breakfast (pot luck additions to our cooks’ bacon, sausage, eggs, rolls - and usually beans!) - to follow our 9:30 service this coming Sunday 12 February. Fr. Raymond is our celebrant and I’m sure any brave souls that want to venture this way would be welcomed, especially with an offering for the buffet table!