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Greetings!
As the summer comes to a
close, students and professors head back to the
classroom, clergy head back to the pulpit and we all
brush the last sand from our feet. This month's E-News
finds Bishop Tom Shaw checking in with students, the
House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans, the brothers of
the Society of St. John the Evangelist helping war vets
to heal and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship joining
denominations around the world to pray for peace. Peace
to you all. And go
Sox!
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Video: Bishop Shaw talks with
students about campus ministry
 Recently, Bishop Tom Shaw stopped
by the Northeastern University campus to talk with
students and their chaplain, the Rev. Judith Stuart,
about their experiences and needs for faith and
ministry.
See the
video>>
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Episcopal Church's bishops to
gather for hands-on meeting in New
Orleans  Massachusetts bishops Tom Shaw and
Bud Cederholm will gather with members of the Episcopal
Church's House of Bishops when it meets Sept. 20-25 in
New Orleans. While there, the bishops will have
opportunities to take part in weekend work projects of
"mucking and gutting" hurricane-damaged structures and
to join in prayer and pastoral visits with congregations
and individuals. Bishop Cederholm will preach at
the 10:30 a.m. service on Sept. 23 at Trinity Church in
New Orleans.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan
Williams, visiting at the bishops' invitation, will
participate in a Sept. 20 evening interfaith gathering
to rededicate the convention center in New
Orleans. Williams will also join in dialogue with
the bishops on subjects including the proposed Anglican
covenant and the Primates' Meeting communiqué issued in
February 2007 in Tanzania.
For coverage of the
meeting, go here.
Photo: Ron
Presti
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"Binding Our
Wounds"  The Society of St. John the
Evangelist is offering a healing service for those
returning from places of war, to be held on Saturday,
Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. at the monastery chapel (980 Memorial
Drive) in Cambridge. The service, open to all,
accompanies an Oct. 3-7 healing retreat for a
limited-size group of returning members of the armed
forces in need of sacred space.
"The
church has a vital role to play to help these men and
women make the long journey back to their lives and
families with the help of God's healing. We want
to hear their stories and be with them along the way,"
explains Brother Roy Cockrum, SSJE, who will be leading
the retreat along with Captain Jeffrey Cox, a clinical
social worker with the Massachusetts National Guard and
a postulant for ordination in the Diocese of
Massachusetts.
Read the Boston Globe
article.
Photo: Courtesy U.S. Army -
Spc. Eric
Jungels
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Prayer vigil for
peace
 The Episcopal Peace Fellowship
is organizing a continuous prayer vigil in churches
across the country beginning on International Day of
Peace, Sept. 21. Learn more here.
Image: Courtesy
peace.mennolink.org
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"Reclaiming Our Voice for
Justice, Mercy and Kindness": Nov.
16-17  Sign up for the Province I
intergenerational convocation to take place Nov. 16-17
at the Doubletree Hotel in Westborough, on Faith,
Advocacy & Public Policy: Reclaiming Our Voice for
Justice, Mercy and Kindness.
The Rev. Dr. Randall
Balmer, professor of American religious history at
Barnard College, Columbia University, and visiting
professor at Yale Divinity School, is the featured
speaker Friday night. Balmer, editor-at-large for
Christianity Today, will speak about the scriptural
foundation and rationale for engagement in advocacy and
the political process. He will join Bishop Tom
Shaw, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (1st District, NH)
and others at a plenary session Saturday
morning.
Read
more>>
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Diomass Reads:
Borg  The 2008 diocesan spring learning
event featuring guest speaker Marcus Borg will take
place on March 15, 2008, and, as preparation, members of
the diocese are invited to join with others in reading
any of these books that he has written or
co-written: The
Last Week (co-authored with John Dominic Crossan,
Harper Collins); The
Heart of Christianity (Harper Collins); Reading the Bible Again for
the First Time (Harper Collins); and Jesus: Uncovering the
Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious
Revolutionary (HarperOne).
Books may be
ordered in bulk at a discount from the Massachusetts
Bible Society by contacting Michael Colyott by e-mail or at
617-542-2224.
For more information, contact Amy Cook in the diocesan
Resource Center by e-mail or at 617-482-4826, ext.
645.
Photo: Cyndy J. Hubbard
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Magnificat/Boston
sings Evensong  Magnificat/Boston, a choir whose
sole purpose is to sing the praises of God in Choral
Evensong and whose members are drawn from around the
diocese, will begin its third season this fall and
welcomes new members. Rehearsals are held on the
second Tuesday of each month, 7:30-9 p.m., at St. Paul's
Church in Malden, and services generally are sung on the
last Sunday of each month in parishes around the
diocese. Choir information and the Evensong
schedule are available here.
Image: Courtesy
Magnificat/Boston
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God and the Red
Sox
The Rev. Anne Gardner, chaplain
and director of community services at Endicott College
and a game-day staffer for the Boston Red Sox, writes
about what it's like work around the likes of A-Rod,
Sammy Sosa and Randy Johnson in the Boston Globe.
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Coming up
Sept. 18 & 25,
Oct. 2: "Theology on Tap"
Sept. 18 & 25,
Oct. 2 & 9: "Never Alone Again",
informational program on alcoholism and addiction, at
Grace Church in North Attleboro, 7-8:30 p.m.
Sept. 23:
"Classical Masters" with Musicians of the Old Post Road,
first in concert series benefiting AIDS relief work in
Africa, at Church of the Holy Spirit in Wayland, 3
p.m.
Oct. 11:
"Really Mixed Media" exhibit reception with artists
Brett Donham, Don Howard, Beverly Benson Seamans and
Benneville Strohecker, at Episcopal Divinity
School, Cambridge, 5-6:30 p.m.
Oct. 12:
"Bluegrass Gospel Project" concert to benefit Ecclesia and common
cathedral ministries with homeless people, Old South
Church in Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Oct 12 &
13: "Hip Hop Schoolhouse: A Worship
Learning Party," an energy-packed, all-ages learning
event at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in
Boston
Oct. 13:
United Thank Offering Ingathering, Christ Church in
Plymouth, 10:30 a.m.
Oct. 15, 17, 23 &
24: Pre-Diocesan Convention Delegate Forums,
7-9 p.m. Click link for locations.
Oct. 18:
Allan S. Gelper lecture on architect Henry Hobson
Richardson, to benefit bell tower restoration at Grace
Church in Medford, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 20:
Merrimack Valley Deanery Annual Workshop Day, St.
Andrew's Church, Methuen
Oct. 27:
"Hunger No Longer: A Day of Prayer and Learning
About Global Poverty" at St. Stephen's Church in Lynn,
12:45-8 p.m.
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