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08/28/2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts offer the following request for prayer for the Middle East:We are troubled, as are many of you, over the violence, bloodshed and destruction in Syria and in Egypt and the terrible…

08/24/2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts offer the following statement on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington: As events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom get…

08/22/2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE sent the following update today to diocesan clergy and leadership regarding his ongoing cancer treatment.Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Tracy J. Sukraw …

The Parish of the Messiah has announced that some of the proceeds from its spring fundraising drive resulted in the purchase and donation of five copies of the Episcopal “Book of Common Prayer” to the Protestant chaplaincy at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Before the parish’s donation, no copies of the…

Digging and more digging had turned the cramped backyard of a centuries-old North End home into a hole-pocked jumble of back-filled earth that most tourists passed without a glance on their way to Old North Church. But this blemish behind the 18th-century Clough House proved to be a blessing for…

For information and updates about the bishop election process, visit www.mabishopsearch.org, the search and transition site independently maintained by the Discernment Committee. The Discernment Committee for the election of a bishop coadjutor for…

The Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Commonwealth Ave., Auburndale, recently welcomed Tinka Perry, the Episcopal Relief & Development’s Diocese of Massachusetts coordinator, as a guest speaker at a Sunday morning service.

Local and state campaigns to increase Massachusetts’ eight dollar an hour minimum wage are under way even as U.S. Rep. John Tierney pushes for Congress to pass his proposal to boost the federal minimum wage. The Salem Democrat on Friday said he is co-sponsoring a bill to boost the federal wage from…

When employees at the Marlborough Senior Center looked around a few years ago, they realized that the people who were showing up for the “blue plate special’’ lunches on Mondays and the weekly cribbage games did not look like the community outside its doors. “We knew our community is comprised of…

Growing up the son of a foreign services officer, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church assistant rector, the Rev. Oliver Jones, 59, has led an eclectic life — and that is a good thing both for him and his flock, since he is an ordained Lutheran minister. “The Mass will always seem the same really, whether…