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The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for organists and the unique instruments they play. However, for curious listeners, this also means it’s one of the easiest times to hear these instruments sounding off live. And you should hear them live, since no two organs, or spaces…
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The Office of the Bishop has issued the following pastoral announcement:

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An outreach group is upgrading to more spacious quarters to house women experiencing homelessness in Falmouth through the winter months. Belonging To Each Other has teamed up with St. Barnabas’s Church to offer a home with more bedrooms and common areas than they have had in the past as a refuge…
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The diocesan Standing Committee on Oct. 31, 2023, issued the following invitation for applications from those interested in being considered for appointment to the Bishop Transition Committee.  Applications, via an online form linked below, are due by Nov. 15, 2023.  Questions…
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Following is the text of the address given by Bishop Alan M. Gates at the 238th annual Diocesan Convention on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling; … Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? and…
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A photo gallery from the October 2023 Diocesan Convention

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Courtesy photos Transition Committee co-chairs Betsy Ridge, Beth Grundy and Brett Johnson, and Consecration Committee chair Michael Dangelo The diocesan Standing Committee, which oversees the bishop search and election process now…
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Filming “St. Jones Ditch” has brought director Jeffrey Long, writer Sarah Brockmann and the cast and crew all over Rhode Island, the South Shore and the South Coast. The only complication? The movie takes place in East Texas.  The latest location to pose as the titular Lone Star town is…
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When the leaders of Bristol Lodge, a food pantry and soup kitchen operated by Middlesex Human Service Agency, learned earlier this year that the Waltham church they had been working out of for 18 years needed its space back, they set to work finding a new home. This month, Bristol Lodge began…
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Beverly has called the Rev. Christopher Whiteman to serve as the 16th rector in the church’s history. Whiteman was formally installed as rector on Oct. 20 by the Rt. Rev. Carol Gallagher, assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, in a ceremony at…