Religion

A group of religious leaders will present the Interfaith Educational Series on Marco Island.

It will be a time of patriotism, prayer and heart, as participants celebrate their first amendment right at the 29th annual Marco Island Prayer Breakfast on Marco Island. Local clergy will offer prayers during the event which will take place, ...

Season is in full swing. Church pews are packed. Our northern friends are back. What better way to celebrate their arrival than with special music in Marco Island houses of worship?

Are you a cradle Baptist, Catholic or Episcopalian who has never been to another house of worship? Or a born-again Christian who never has stepped out of the church where you were saved? Perhaps the only time you go to ...

he New Year is here; the parties are over. It is a time for new hopes, dreams and most importantly prayers. As many have shared how much last year’s prayers for the New Year meant to you, the Church Lady ...

The Church Lady asked church musicians to share a favorite Advent or Christmas carol, hymn or song. Imagine the Walter Mitty (James Thurber’s fictitious daydreamer); and George Plimpton (journalist and writer who engaged in participatory journalism) moments for someone who ...

A shout out was sent to Marco church musicians, the unsung church pillars, to share a favorite Advent or Christmas carol, hymn or song. For many who grew up in secular homes, Christmas songs are endless choruses of “Jingle Bells.” ...

With a little ceremony, a little music, a little Hebrew, some latkes and cake, the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island celebrated the coming on Hanukkah Wednesday evening.

Marco has outgrown its original church. The historic building sits next to the island cemetery at Elkcam Circle and Bald Eagle Drive, on land owned by the New Life Community Church of God. The church and gazebo nearby, brightly festooned ...

Living on an Island the size of Marco Island, sometimes makes one feel as if they know every shop, every nook and everything the island has to offer. That is why it is such a pleasure to stumble upon something ...

For the Reverend Jean-Marie “Fritz” Ligonde, the St. Finbarr Parish’s Church administrator, it was his everyday life. Known as Fr. Fritz, the reverend grew up in Ducis and as a child attended the school run by the Sisters of St. ...

It was an evening of scripture, spaghetti and St. Nicolas as families gathered in San Marco Catholic Church’s Parish Hall on Monday — to focus on Jesus. Emcee Kim Adamson, director of religious education, began the festivities by asking the ...

The air was balmy with barely a breeze. A waxing moon peaked out from the clouds. A perfect evening for candle lighting. People gathered from all walks of life at the base of Marco Island Cemetery’s Christmas Box Angel. They ...

What is more fitting than to begin Thanksgiving Day at an interfaith service at the Jewish Congregation of Marco Island? Our pilgrim forefathers knew the Bible and their celebration of Thanksgiving had its roots in the Old Testament festival of ...

They sang with gusto, with joy, and some sang with a hint of tears in their eyes. Welcome to the Potluck Dinner and Hymn Sing at Wesley United Methodist Church, held last Friday. “For Methodists music is essential,” said the ...