Diocesan News

Sept. 7, 2012Late this afternoon, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts was informed by the Middlesex District Attorney's Office of the arrest of the Rev. Paul LaCharite on charges of assault to rape a child and indecent assault and battery on a child.  He is a former rector of St. James's…

President Obama has proclaimed Sept. 7-9 as National Days of Prayer and Remembrance.  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris commend the invitation to remember the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, and their loved ones through prayer, contemplation, memorial services and vigils and…

Weekly posts through October and November for reflection and conversation are on our Creation Care Season page, here. In a Sept. 4 letter, retired bishop suffragan Bud Cederholm asks congregations to observe a Creation Care Season during late…

Donations to Episcopal Relief and Development's Hurricane Fund will be designated for preparation and response in areas that are in the path of the tropical storm "Isaac."  As of Friday, Aug. 24, Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) had reached…

The Diocese of Massachusetts' fall Resource Day is an annual learning event that brings together leadership teams from congregations around the diocese for skill-building and best-practices workshops on an array of topics and for networking with one…

[Episcopal News Service] It was the first day of the summer B-SAFE program in the Diocese of Massachusetts, and one girl in Priscilla Alcantara’s group kept wandering off, unwilling to talk to the other sixth-graders because her friends were in a different group. Alcantara, a teen staff member,…

A tithe of $2 million from the ongoing diocesan Together Now fundraising campaign is designated for mission beyond the Diocese of Massachusetts; $500,000 of that tithe amount will fund existing mission partnerships.  Late last year, Diocesan Council approved grants of $250,000 to the Bishop…

“We emerge with abundant hope, better discipline for working together and with partners beyond this church, for our fundamental reason for being--engagement with God’s mission,” E piscopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori states in her…

This spring, 23 congregations of the diocese were awarded a combined total of $174,392 in Gretchen Umholtz The Rev. Moses Sowale of Grace Chapel in Brockton helps plant a garden of…