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Boston University’s Agganis Arena will be transformed from sporting to sacred space on Saturday, Sept. 13 as the Episcopal Church ordains and consecrates a new bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.Some 4,000 participants and guests—including 28 bishops—from around the country and…
Diocesan News
Courtesy Celebrating B-SAFE with ice cream. When B-SAFE began in 2000 as a safe haven for about 30 children in a neighborhood plagued by violence, the Rev. Tim Crellin says he could not have imagined that it would grow to the size and…
In the News
Episcopal Divinity School's Director of Lifelong Learning Diane D'Souza spoke to WBUR about the recent EDS pilgrimage to Haynesville, Alabama, where EDS student Jonathan Daniels was killed in 1965 for his involvement in the civil rights movement.  
In the News
Attleboro's All Saints Episcopal Church has started a breakfast program named One Family, A Mission of Unity Saturday Morning Breakfast. The church plans to hold the breakfasts every other month to aid low-income families in the area. Click the link above to read more. 
Parish News
The Kids in Community (KIC) program at St. Stephen’s Church in Lynn is now winding down its ninth summer of providing academic enrichment and summer camp fun to kids in Lynn. Serving children who are entering grades one through six, KIC has a current enrollment of about 100 campers. The program,…
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“God tells us to show hospitality for immigrants, to look out for and care for these children,” the Rev. Jane Gould of St. Stephen's Church in Lynn said at a protest, eliciting cheers and applause from demonstrators provoked by comments from the mayor that the influx of child immigrants from…
Diocesan News
Eleven young people from the Diocese of Massachusetts and their adult mentors, including Bishop Gayle E. Harris, traveled to Philadelphia for the Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) held July 9-12 at Villanova University.Held every three years, the event gathers hundreds of young Episcopalians from across…
Parish News
The new stained glass window arrives at Grace Church. Grace Church, Vineyard Haven has just completed the first phase of a major renovation funded through its parish Together Now capital campaign. This phase included replacing two walls and reworking the windows. The church…
Diocesan News
In June the Diocese of Massachusetts launched two new mission hubs to serve the North Shore and Boston's Metrowest area.The new hubs join three existing mission hubs serving the Merrimack Valley, the South Coast and Plymouth, Cape Cod and the islands and are part of the Mission Hub Initiative…
Diocesan News
About 500 Episcopalians gathered under one of the bluest of June's skies to sing, pray and give thanks together with Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE as he prepares to retire after 20 years as the bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts.The June 21 celebration at Jamaica Pond in Boston was the…