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Since its installation over 130 years ago, the E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings organ at Grace Church in Medford has been touched up now and then, including a conversion from mechanical to electric in the 1950s. But last April marked the beginning of a much-needed total renovation, the first the organ…

When the Federated Church in Edgartown, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, also in Edgartown, and Grace Episcopal Church in Vineyard Haven opened their doors to anyone who needed shelter on Jan. 1, no one came. Volunteers staffed the shelters every night, anyway. Ten days later, the program’s first…

With heroin cheap and widely available on city streets throughout the country, users are making their buys and shooting up as soon as they can, often in public places. Police officers are routinely finding drug users—unconscious or dead—in cars, in the bathrooms of fast-food restaurants, on mass…

Saturday, Feb. 27, was a milestone in the life of Catherine Elizabeth “Cat” Healy: The Right Reverend Alan M. Gates, Bishop of Massachusetts, ordained her a priest at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. The bishop, now in his second year in the diocese, was making his first trip to the Wellesley church…

On Saturday, Feb. 27, Grace Episcopal Church hosted a benefit concert to raise funds for the World Food Program’s relief effort for refugees and internally displaced people in Syria.  More than 200 people packed the parish hall to enjoy music by local artists Monty Hill, Sisters in Song, Param…

Old North Church and its Captain Jackson Chocolate Shop is featured in this "Chronicle" segment on the history of chocolate.Click the link above to view the segment.

A group based out of St. Barnabas Church has been hosting six to eight homeless people at the Falmouth Inn since Jan. 8. They hope to continue the program through the end of March but need more funding, said Alan Burt, co-founder of Homeless not Hopeless Inc., an organization that houses homeless…

Melissa McGrew balanced herself high above the floor of Old North Church, perched at the edge of slightly rocking scaffolding as she burrowed through paper-thin layers of paint and plaster to find the church’s original skin.  A good day is uncovering 7 square inches.  It’s nerve…

To mark the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, Christians across the ages have flocked to churches to have their foreheads marked with ashes, a symbol of mortality and penitence. That centuries-old tradition continues today in Christian communities around the world.On Martha’s Vineyard, Father…

As a result of the civil war in Syria, more than nine million Syrians have lost their homes or fled the Middle Eastern nation; over two-thirds of them are women and children. And parishioners at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms are not standing idly by as it happens.  “The Holy…