Diocesan News

Volunteers from last year’s Sept. 11 Day of Service. Last year, as Sept. 11 loomed, 400 people gathered at sites around the diocese and got down to work.  They painted parish halls and cleaned up church yards in beleaguered city neighborhoods.  They installed energy…

About 100 people gathered to pray for the Gulf Coast in a July 7 vigil organized by the Massachusetts Council of Churches. Episcopalians were among the 100 people who gathered outside of Old South Church in Boston on July 7 to pray for the oil-soaked Gulf Coast, a vigil that…

What do young adults value deeply? How do they experience their faith journeys? What are their perspectives on faith, spirituality and the church? The diocese’s Relational Evangelism Pilot Project is a ministry designed to find out. …

06/29/10:  Retired bishop suffragan, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris returned home to Foxboro today after a three-week stay in a rehabilitation facility where she has been recuperating from a stroke. She sends her thanks for the cards, notes, prayers and good wishes people have been sending her…

06/16/10:  St. Stephen’s Church held the first of its weekly prayer vigils at O’Day Plaground on June 8. In the wake of the recent Boston street violence that left four young people dead in a month, St…