Diocesan News

PHOTO: Courtesy of St. Stephen’s Church Members of the youth program at St. Stephen’s Church in Lynn, which hosts Diocesan Convention on Nov. 6. Episcopalians will get a glimpse of city ministry when they converge on St. Stephen’s…

Housing is a basic human right, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE said at a news conference on Oct. 12 at Trinity Church in Boston, where he joined other Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders in speaking out against Question 2. PHOTO:…

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul has launched a new podcast called “Sacred Time.”  The half-hour program is modeled after the cathedral’s former radio broadcast, “Sunday Morning at the Cathedral,” which was discontinued when its on-air home, WCRB-FM, was bought by WGBH last year.  At the…

PHOTO: Courtesy of All Saints’ Church The Rev. Viki Pretti blesses one of the many four-footed creatures at church on Oct. 3. Congregations celebrated Creation Care Sunday on Oct. 3, giving thanks for the good earth, its creatures and…

Bishop Zebedee Masereka, a retired bishop of Kasese, Uganda, will be visiting the diocese later this month, and members of the diocesan community involved in mission partnerships in East Africa invite others to join them in welcoming him on Thursday, Sept. 30, 6-8 p.m., at the Cathedral Church of…

By the numbers, Sept. 11 was a big Day of Service in the diocese:  436 volunteers putting in a collective 2,400 hours at nine sites. Nearly 200 volunteers sorted books and organized the library at Boston’s Blackstone…