Saturday

Mercy Medal Celebration, 5:30 p.m. The event features the Traditions Auction and the launch of the $100K Mercy Scholarship Fund. The celebration also honors Joseph Kilmartin, math teacher; Sister Edward Mary Kelleher, former principal; and Candace Anderson-Ek, teacher and director of admissions. Held at Catherine McAuley High School, 631 Stevens Ave., Portland. To learn more, visit www.mcauleyhs.org or contact Kristine Neff-Jendrasko at 797-3802, ext. 2017.

Dessert Extravaganza with silent and live auction, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., to benefit the Corner Cupboard non-food pantry. Admission is $5 and includes a dessert buffet with a make-your-own sundae table. Child care will be available. Held at Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church, 5 Lebanon St., Sanford. Call 324-3191 for details.

Saturday and Sunday

Heritage Weekend, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Salvation Army in England by William Booth. Events begin at 2 p.m. Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open “Heritage Hall.” The hall will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. and will include displays of historical highlights of the Army’s works and influence. “The Music Hall Comes To Town,” begins at 6 p.m. Saturday and features highlights of Salvation Army music and light-hearted historical stories. A service will begin at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. Events are held at the Salvation Army, 2 Sixth St., Old Orchard Beach. Call 934-4381 with any questions.

Sunday

“Interfaith Encounters,” 9:30 a.m., talk by Dr. Jennifer Peace, assistant professor of Interfaith Studies at Andover Newton Theological School. Discussion and refreshments will follow. Foreside Community Church, 340 Foreside Road, Falmouth, 781-5880. All are welcome.

Holy Humor Sunday, 10 a.m., service led by the Rev. Walter Woitasek. State Street Church, 159 State St., Portland.

“Out of the Shadows,” 10 a.m., an Easter Cantata performed by the Senior Choir. Raymond Village Community Church, 27 Main St., Route 121, Raymond.

Thursday

Holocaust Remembrance Day, 7 p.m., commemorating Yom HaShoah with readings and choral music by the synagogue choir. Held at Adas Yoshuron Synagogue, 50 Willow St., Rockland. Free and open to the public. For more information, email info@adasyoshuron.org or call 594-4523

Friday

“Just Du-Et,” 7 p.m., organ/piano concert with Bethany Kirkpatrick and Wendy Northrup. First Congregational Church, Black Point Road, Scarborough. Admission at the door is by donation and on a first-come basis. Suggested minimum donation is $8 for adults and $5 for children under 13. For more information, call 883-2342.

April 18

Holy Grounds Coffee House, 1047 Congress St., Portland, 6:30 p.m., 10th anniversary celebration with Jim Trick, a Boston-based performer. Juniper opens. Reservations are recommended at facebook.com/holygroundsportland. Free with donations accepted. Food will be available for a reasonable price.

Other

Bishop Robert P. Deeley of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland will appoint the Rev. Louis J. Phillips, current interim superintendent of Maine Catholic Schools, as pastor of St. Anne Parish, Gorham; St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Westbrook; and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Windham. The appointment is effective June 1. The retirements of the Rev. Joseph J. Koury, administrator of St. Anne Parish and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, and the Rev. Reginald R. Brissette, senior priest at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, are also effective on June 1.

Phillips is a 1975 summa cum laude graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in theology from the Catholic University of America in 1981, the year he was ordained to the priesthood. He also earned a M.Ed. in Educational Administration and a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction and Administration from Boston College. Before arriving in Maine, Phillips served in a variety of teaching and administrative positions. He has also been director of the St. Paul Center in Augusta, and has served at parishes in Augusta, Auburn, Ellsworth, Whitefield and Winthrop. In 2009, he was appointed rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland and administrator of the Portland Peninsula and Island Parishes. He was named interim superintendent of Maine Catholic Schools in May 2014.

Koury, a Rhode Island native, graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. Before arriving in Maine, he served in Kirkland and Seattle, Wash., and taught at the Weston School of Theology and Boston College. He began Canon Law work in Portland in 1983 was appointed chaplain of Saint Joseph’s College in Standish in 1992. Koury was named coordinator of campus ministry in 1994 and also was named pastor of Our Lady of Wisdom Parish, Orono, in addition to his campus ministry duties, and also was pastor at St. Mary Parish, Orono. He has served as administrator of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Belfast, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Windham, and St. Joseph Parish, Bridgton. In addition to his assignments in Windham and Bridgton, Koury was appointed administrator at St. Anne Parish, Gorham, and St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Westbrook, in 2011. He has also served as judge on the tribunal of the Diocese of Portland since 1983.

A native of Caribou, Brissette studied at the Grand Seminary of St. Sulpice in Montreal, earning degrees in philosophy and theology. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Daniel J. Feeney at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland in 1963 and served in parishes in Eastport, Auburn, Presque Isle and Lewiston through 1979. In 1980, after several months of specialized studies at North American College in Rome, he was appointed chaplain of Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, where he served until being named pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Farmington in 1981. In 1989, Brissette was appointed pastor of Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Berwick, and in 1995 he became pastor of St. Andre Parish in Biddeford. In 2005, he was appointed administrator of St. Anthony of Padua in Westbrook. Brissette will remain in residence at St. Anthony of Padua Parish and will continue to be active in ministry during his retirement.

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