Companioned: Love That Does Not Turn Away

Lent 2026 Series

Sundays at 10 am

This series is inspired by Through Holy Week with Mary Magdalene, guided by the teachings of Cynthia Bourgeault. In that series, Holy Week is not treated as a courtroom drama about guilt and acquittal, but as an initiation into conscious love. Not a trial. Not a settlement. An initiation. When Mary Magdalene is restored to her place at the foot of the cross, the meaning of crucifixion does not merely adjust. It stops behaving like bookkeeping. What had long been framed as cosmic accounting is exposed as love doing what love does when it is not interrupted.

Once that happens, the entire story tilts.

Not in doctrine first.

In tone.

Christianity begins to sound different. Less tight. Less afraid. Less obsessed with proving that God is justified in doing what God does. Love is no longer treated as a liability that must be hedged. It is allowed to stand there without apology.

Celebrate with us. 

Please join us at 10:00 am Sunday at 515 Woodford St in Portland, Maine, or via Zoom, for a time of worship and fellowship. We'll share some music, lift up our joys and concerns, pray together, and share Communion. (If you're joining us from home, feel free to bring a beverage and crackers, or whatever you like, to your screen so you're prepared to receive Communion with the in-person worshipping community.)

We post our weekly Zoom Worship meeting link on our main worship page.