… and they are blessed
At least a dozen dogs and cats showed up at church for a special blessing on Sunday.
Parish News
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Special Parish Meeting
A special meeting of the parish will be held on Sunday, October 3 at 1:00 p.m. to provide updates from the Discernment Committee and their process. It will not be an in-person meeting, but rather will be strictly on zoom. A link will be included in the October 1 edition of News from the Pews. …
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Blessing of the Animals
The annual Blessing of the Animals will be offered at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, Oct. 3 at 9:30 a.m. on the lawn in front of the church at the corner of Court & Elm Streets, Belfast. The brief outdoor service, led by the Rev. John S. Nieman, is open to anyone in the community who would like a…
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Mask requirement for Support Group participants
Updated COVID protocol (September 1, 2021) REQUIRES that all participants in support group meetings using our facility wear face masks.
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5th Sunday Collection
August’s Fifth Sunday offering will go to the Episcopal Relief & Development Haiti Fund and to the International Rescue Committee’s work in Afghanistan, working to help, for example, displaced people in Kabul.
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What type of leader does the Bible endorse?
A 10-week online course with Deirdre Good starting Thursday, August 25th, 7-8pm, “Leadership Qualities from Miriam & Moses to Jesus and Mary: Vision, Courage, Meekness” including the latest scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q285 fragment 7 envisaging Miriam and the women of Israel celebrating the defeat of the Roman Emperor by the Branch of…
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Important COVID Protocol Change – effective July 30, 2021
In light of this week’s changed CDC guidelines regarding masking and the increasing rates of COVID transmission rates in Waldo County, the Vestry has affirmed the following changes to our protocol at St. Margaret’s: Why these changes? In a nutshell, this past week the Federal CDC began recommending that allpeople, both unvaccinated and vaccinated, wear…
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Discernment Committee ready to receive applications
The Discernment Committee has completed the first part of the process – that is, completed the OTM portfolio and written a welcoming letter to prospective candidates that is posted on this completely re-designed website . The committee will now be entering the “silent” phase where applications will be received and absolute confidentiality is required. We…
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Pre-COVID Worship resumes
We have returned to our regular 8AM and 10:15AM worship times on Sundays in the church with music at 10:15AM. The 9:30AM Healing Eucharist is also back on Wednesdays with coffee and chat time following.
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Back to church!
Dust off your name tags – we are back in church! For the second Sunday we have worshipped together in the nave while some have remained at home and participated via Zoom. On July 4th we will be returning to pre-pandemic days and resuming our regular two services at 8AM and 10:15AM. Coffee hour is…
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Vestry Highlights – June 2021 meeting
The Vestry met in-person at the parish house this past Tuesday. Updates were reported from Vestry members on the Discernment and Planned Giving Committees. The Vestry reviewed and voted to accept new guidelines for in-person worship effective immediately with additional changes beginning in July, using recommendations by our COVID Task Force following new CDC guidelines….
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Pentecost and Bishop Brown’s visit
The few of us present were dressed in red! The church looked festive also “dressed” in red! And Bishop Thomas Brown was with us to celebrate Pentecost and bless our recently restored and moved baptistry window via a streamed service to the parish.
