This presentation aims to help people become effective agents of compassion and to speak mercy, empathy, and love to post-abortive men and women.
Events
A series of one-hour retreats presented by Fr. Peter Uhde will provide attendees with a biblical glimpse of God’s love and empathic mercy. Sessions will include presentations as well as opportunities for sharing and asking questions.
Information on wakes, funerals, and Catholic cemeteries will be presented along with Church teaching on cremation and the benefits of pre-planning one’s arrangements.
Stations of the Cross, a Lenten devotion that follows the 14 steps that Jesus took to Calvary, beginning with the Garden of Gethsemane and concluding when he is laid in the tomb, will be prayed in many parishes across the diocese on the Fridays of Lent.
The Fairfield Knights of Columbus will offer Lenten haddock chowder dinners on the Fridays of Lent beginning on February 24. The meals will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the hall of St. Joseph Maronite Church, located on Front Street in Waterville. the cost is $11.
Knights of Columbus Council 8144 will hold their Lenten baked haddock dinners on the Fridays of Lent, beginning on February 24 and continuing through March 31.
The Parish of the Holy Savior in Rumford will present "Soul Food" on the Fridays of Lent. The evenings will begin at 5 p.m. with Stations of the Cross led by Father Aaron Damboise at St. Athanasius & St. John Church. That will be followed by meatless soup meals with guest presentations in the parish hall.
Lenten haddock chowder meals will be available for takeout on the Fridays of Lent, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen Street in Brunswick.
"Fasting for Lent, Fasting for Life," a weekend retreat for women will be held at the Christian Life Center, 444 U.S. Route One in Frenchville, March 24-26.
The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord celebrates the coming of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce to her the special mission God had chosen for her in being the mother of His only son.
The event will include an Easter egg hunt, breakfast, and a chance for photos with the Easter bunny.
Father Seamus Griesbach, Father Kevin Upham, and Father Selvaraj Kasi, HGN, will lead a daylong women's retreat on Saturday, March 11, and a daylong men's retreat on Saturday, March 25, at the Cathedral Residence in Portland.
A well-known and faith-filled Catholic composer and musician, who travels the world with a message of using music to share hope, will touch down in Augusta for a special music ministry workshop.
The Ladies Guild of Sacred Heart Church will hold their Ticket Auction Fundraiser at the Sacred Heart Church Hall in Hallowell on Saturday, March 25.
Three healing prayer services are scheduled for Maine churches in Lewiston and Brunswick in the coming weeks.
The bishop will celebrate Mass in the Bangor Room of the university’s Memorial Union at 5 p.m. followed by dinner and fellowship. All are welcome to attend.
A Tenebrae service will be held at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church, 150 Black Point Road in Scarborough, on Sunday, March 26, at 7 p.m.
From Monday, March 27, to Friday, March 31, all Maine Catholics are invited to experience God’s love, mercy, and forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation (confession).
Using watercolor and mandalas, participants will reflect on how to live as Easter people in a Good Friday world.
An online conversation on Monday, March 27, discussing the impact of Pope Benedict XVI on the life of the Church will feature someone who knew him well.
With a goal of strengthening relationships with God and fostering an environment in which those relationships can be explored, the program invites adults, ages 21 to 40, to gather and share topics of the Catholic faith.
Stations of the Cross, a Lenten devotion that follows the 14 steps that Jesus took to Calvary, beginning with the Garden of Gethsemane and concluding when he is laid in the tomb, will be prayed in many parishes across the diocese on the Fridays of Lent.
The Fairfield Knights of Columbus will offer Lenten haddock chowder dinners on the Fridays of Lent beginning on February 24. The meals will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the hall of St. Joseph Maronite Church, located on Front Street in Waterville. the cost is $11.
Lenten haddock chowder meals will be available for takeout on the Fridays of Lent, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen Street in Brunswick.
Knights of Columbus Council 8144 will hold their Lenten baked haddock dinners on the Fridays of Lent, beginning on February 24 and continuing through March 31.