Diocesan News

At an awards luncheon at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on Jan. 12, Episcopal City Mission (ECM) handed out 20 Burgess Urban Fund grants totaling $241,000 to 20 Massachusetts organizations--ranging from the Merrimack Valley Project in Lawrence to the Brazilian Immigrant Center in Boston…

For several weeks now, in the place where I pray, I have had a copy of the 16th and 17th-century Italian artist Caravaggio's "Adoration of the Shepherds."  You see the four poor men, shoeless, unwashed, with unkempt beards and worn clothing, bent in quiet awe over the child Jesus and the…

Congregations looking for a new way to tell their stories and let others know about the good work they are doing have a creative opportunity at hand.  "The DioMass Film Project:  Capturing Our Stories" is now underway, a project that's part…

As Occupy Boston protesters regroup following the recent close of their Dewey Square encampment, the Episcopal Diocese of Masschusetts' Cathedral Church of St. Paul has offered them meeting space for their general assemblies, beginning Tuesday, Dec. 13.  The general assemblies are open…