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The Charles River Deanery Youth Collaborative gathered 70 kids and their adult mentors for a pie-making party at the Church of Our Saviour in Brookline on Nov. 20, including Alexander Feltner-Harrison (pictured), a sixth grader from All Saints Parish,…

Lynn Clark, Lynn Smith and Diane Pound (pictured, from left) formed "Team Diomass" at the fourth annual South Shore Deanery Bowl-a-thon in Hanover on Nov. 13.  Money raised at the event matches diocesan Sending Serving grant funds, which, in the…

The hand bell choir from Christ Church in Cambridge, under the direction of Melissa Hirschon, rang the Sunday service on Nov. 20 at St. Paul's Church in Newburyport to help that parish celebrate its 300th anniversary. Cricket Beauregard-Lewis reports:  "One year ago we were honored to be…

The fourth week in Advent:"The light of Christ is coming" By Rachael Pettengill On the first day of Advent my fellow postulant for ordination, Stephen, and I were leading healing prayer at Grace Church in Medford.  When it was my turn to…

Following is a letter of thanks to the diocesan community from Bishop Bud Cederholm. November 2011 Dear Friends, Words cannot express what is in my heart following these last several months of well wishes, love, cards, congregational gifts, notes on the diocesan Web site, blessings and prayers…

Celebration, leave-taking and a sense of both opportunity and challenge were in the air as 600 clergy and delegates took up the annual business of Diocesan Convention this year alongside a big farewell to a beloved retiring bishop suffragan and the launch of an ambitious fundraising …