All Saints Parish Homilies and News

Marion statue retrieved from the Ursuline Convent on Pleasant Street in Brunswick, after it was vacated. This lovely statue is now placed in the overflow or meditation room, adjacent to the Saint Charles Borromeo sanctuary. Beautiful flowering spring fruit tree adorns the entrance to the Saint Charles Borromeo Church in All Saints Parish, Brunswick Maine.  Pastor Father Tom Murphy  (pictured belos) greets parishioners who are leaving the 10:30 AM Mass.  My husband and I are pleased to see the stunning Marion statue in the overflow room adjacent to the Saint Charles sanctuary.  Father Tom said the statue had been in the Ursuline Convent, when it was located on Pleasant Street in Brunswick.  She is peacefully stunning!  S ixth Sunday of Easter  from Catholic Culture.org The first reading is taken from the Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2, 22-29 and concerns the Council of Jerusalem which falls in the middle of the book of Acts and describes the turn...

  Happy Mother's Day 2019 Blossoms on Pleasant Street outside the front entrance to St. Johns

An  article published in the El Paso Times , a Texas daily newspaper. Passover remains the most popularly observed festival in Jewish life: By Rabbi Levi Greenberg Rabbi Levi Greenberg, associate Rabbi at Chabad Lubavitch, takes a freshly baked Matzah out of the oven for children enrolled in the Chabad Education Center’s spring camp. (Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES FILE) Millions of Jews around the world gather with family, friends and community to celebrate the Israelite exodus from Egyptian slavery which occurred 3,331 years ago. The traditional festive dinner is called a Seder and the centerpiece of the evening is a flat, crunchy cracker bread called matzah. The trouble with tradition is the fact that it's often a struggle to relate to. As time moves on it is increasingly difficult to retain a real connection to past events. Passover has had three millennia to disappear into the abyss, yet it remains the most popularly observed festival in Jewish life.  Even th...