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Grace Church in North Attleboro is reaching out to the community to help keep the World War II Memorial Swimming Pool open this summer while honoring fallen veterans.The Rev. Phillip Kutta will be conducting a special church service at Grace Church on Sunday, May 31 at 10 a.m., with music, prayers,…
Reflections
On Saturday, June 28, 1969, six policemen arrived at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, and loudly announced the start of a raid. The people who were at Stonewall Inn that night weren’t just gay and lesbian; they were the most marginalized people from within the gay…
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Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 North Main St., Randolph, is celebrating 100 years of Christian ministry and witness in Randolph. The seed for the establishment of an Episcopal mission in Randolph was planted in 1912 at the corner of Orchard Street and Bartlett Road when a group of Episcopalians…
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The Rev. Elibariki Phillip Kutta came to Grace Episcopal Church in North Attleboro through a series of unexpected events that brought him from Tanzania to the Boston area.Kutta became the parish's supply priest last July, and took on the role of priest-in-charge on Jan. 1.Kutta was born in…
Diocesan News
Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts issued the following statement today regarding the sentencing of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev:We are grieved at the death sentence rendered today by the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber…
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Louis D. Brown Peace Institute founder Tina Chery greets a Boston Police officer at the start of the walk. Peg Mallett Deborah Gardner Walker Deborah Gardner Walker …
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John (Jack) F. Doran, 96, an Episcopalian of Christ Church in Harwich Port and Christ Church in Andover, known to many throughout the Diocese of Massachusetts for his faithfulness to the Episcopal Church and his volunteer retirement career as a leader and consultant to bishops, diocesan…
Diocesan News
Bishop Alan M. Gates announced on May 13 that the Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd, who has served as canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Massachusetts since December 2008, will be stepping down in mid-September.  The text of his letter to the diocesan community follows. Dear People of the Diocese…
Reflections
This sermon was given by Julia Hogan from St. John's Church in Franklin, at a youth-led service at St. John's on May 3.  It has been lightly edited for content and clarity.  Julia is a member of St. John's and a sophomore at Franklin High School. She is scheduled to be confirmed on…
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For 130 years, Grace Episcopal Church in Medford has been honorably served by its 1885 Hook and Hastings pipe organ.Earlier this month, for the first time since its installation, the organ was completely dismantled piece-by-piece and sent to David E. Wallace and Co. organ builders in Gorham, Maine…