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Dressed in robes for worship, and costumes from biblical times, the three congregations of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Grace Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church gathered in Medford Square on Palm Sunday, March 29, to bless palms as each church begins Holy Week.For decades, Grace…

Few corners of the country have received as much snow overload as Boston and its environs, where  aging transportation systems and inadequate snow-removal budgets brought normal life to a virtual halt over a period of weeks. Members of  First Lutheran (ELCA) of Malden discovered the…

When Rev. Edgar Gutierrez-Duarte arrived in Chelsea in 2007, there was a small closet with a few rows of non-perishable food items in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that Father Edgar’s predecessor had left behind and had sometimes handed out to the hungry.It had been an act of service that was…

With snow and bitter cold blanketing the city, local churches are opening new daytime shelters for the homeless who left Boston Harbor's Long Island. WGBH Radio’s Anne Mostue brings us this story on the continuing response to the city's homeless crisis. Click the link above to listen to the…

Father Brian Murdoch, parish priest at Grace Church in Vineyard Haven, observed Ash Wednesday with a particular Island theme, and a little humor. Father Murdoch met travelers arriving at the Steamship Authority Vineyard Haven terminal on the 11:30 am Island Home ferry to dispense ashes in the…

An abandoned building at Beverly Municipal Airport has been saved from demolition, at least temporarily, to shelter the homeless during extreme weather.Mayor Michael Cahill hesitates to call the “temporary emergency accommodation” a shelter, since it’s available only if there is a need for it —…

On Wednesday December 10th, partners and staff of the Blackstone Innovation School celebrated a virtual ribbon-cutting at the unveiling of EBSCO, one of the most sophisticated academic databases in the nation.  Blackstone students, faculty and administrators now have access to this incredible…

The AIDS Action Committee has announced that 300 backpacks filled with daily necessities, such as winter hats and gloves, have been donated to the agency by Emmanuel Episcopal Church in West Roxbury. It is the third year in a row that Emmanuel Church has collected backpacks and donations for street…

Frances Robinson has 600 books piled up in her guest bedroom. She’s not a hoarder, a book vendor, or even a speed-reader, however. The books aren’t even hers.Robinson, along with fellow parishioners at Trinity Church Boston, volunteers weekly at the Paul A. Dever Elementary School in Dorchester…

One hundred years ago, on Dec. 25, 1914, Christ Church parishioners celebrated their first service at the stone chapel on Court Street in Plymouth.Founded in 1844, the Episcopal parish had built a new, statelier home. And after many years on Russell Street, the congregation had moved to a new place…