Congregation looks into selling historic Woodfords parish house
A Woodfords Congregational Church task force recommends selling part of the building to Community Housing of Maine for senior housing.
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A Woodfords Congregational Church task force has made a preliminary recommendation to sell the parish house to Community Housing of Maine for senior housing.
Michael Kelley / The Forecaster
A decade ago, a vote by the congregation of Woodfords Congregational Church to sell the church’s historic parish house ended in a deadlocked tie. Members of a church task force are hoping for a change of heart as they again look into selling the building, which has become too expensive for the church to maintain.
Churches, worshippers adapt to socially distanced Christmas
Churches modify their Christmas Masses during a surge in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Churchgoers are socially distanced at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland as church sacristan Dianne Tardy carries the cross at the end of daily Mass on Wednesday. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
Carmen Dominguez understands the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic, so she will not be attending Christmas Eve Mass this year.
But she couldn’t stay away entirely, so she attended a smaller midday Mass on Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland.
“We wanted to see Jesus this week,” Dominguez said after the Mass.
Maine Voices: Staying safe faithfully this season means serving others
What better tribute to the one whose birth Christians are celebrating than to make small sacrifices out of love for our neighbors?
By Rev. Alyssa LodewickSpecial to the Press Herald
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This holiday season, there’s a gift you can give that won’t add anything to your credit card balance or require an ATM withdrawal – yet the cost of not giving it is astronomical. By refusing to give others this gift, you could cost them their health or even their very life.
What is this gift? Staying safe faithfully. By wearing a face mask and practicing social distancing when in public, avoiding indoor holiday parties and gatherings and choosing options other than in-person worship services to celebrate the spirituality of the season, you can do your part to reduce transmission of the coronavirus.