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This update was issued by e-mail on April 16 to clergy and leadership. April 16, 2020 Upcoming Zoom gatherings for clergy and leadership Canon to the Ordinary Bill Parnell will host Zoom conferences for clergy and wardens next week, to pray together and check in with one another about COVID-19…
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One of the core components of the Life Together fellowship program in this diocese is community, and--as with all communities during the COVID-19 pandemic--the program and its fellows are adapting to new ways of being together and being of service.

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The bishops of the seven Episcopal dioceses of New England have issued the following joint statement urging advocacy for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe as it faces the threat of its reservation lands being taken out of trust and disestablishment by the federal government. Statement…
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Videotaped worship services for Maundy Thursday (from the Monastery Chapel of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, with Brother James Koester, SSJE, preaching), Good Friday (from the Convent Chapel of the Society of St. Margaret in Duxbury, with Bishop Gayle…
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Videotaped worship services for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day are offered here as a diocesan resource for congregations which do not have live-streaming capability and as a complement to the offerings of those that do.  The videos also will be available on…
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This message from Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris was issued by e-mail on March 31 to clergy and diocesan and parish leadership. March 31, 2020 Dear Clergy and Lay Leaders of Our Diocese, Once again we offer our deepest gratitude for the dedication with which you are serving…
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This message from Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris was issued by e-mail on March 25 to clergy and diocesan and parish leadership. March 25, 2020 Dear Clergy and Lay Leaders of Our Diocese, The season of Lent is always a time for returning our focus to those things which…
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This message from Bishop Alan M. Gates was issued by e-mail on March 21 to clergy and diocesan and parish leadership. March 21, 2020 *** Please be aware, as we are, that some guidelines below may be superseded by rapidly changing circumstances. *** Dear Clergy and Lay Leaders of Our Diocese, In…
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The diocesan community's prayers and congratulations go with the latest cohort of newly ordained priests, pictured here with Bishop Alan M. Gates, colleagues, family members and friends.

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Gayle Pershouse with Bishop Alan Gates at February 2020 ordination
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The Rev. Gayle Pershouse’s ordination to the transitional diaconate this past November was an occasion for inspiration and redemption for many in the diocesan community and beyond, given the circumstances of her decades-long journey toward ordination.  (Read the Dec. 18 story here.) …
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