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06/16/10:  St. Stephen’s Church held the first of its weekly prayer vigils at O’Day Plaground on June 8. In the wake of the recent Boston street violence that left four young people dead in a month, St…

Guest speaker Alan Khazei (center) congratulated interns in the diocese’s Micah Project and Relational Evangelism programs, pictured here with the programs’ directors, Jason Long (left, second row) and the Rev. Arrington Chambliss (right). Episcopal City Mission (ECM) supporters…

Bishop Gayle E. Harris ordained six new deacons—five transitional and one vocational—on June 5 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. They are, pictured from left:  The Rev. Daniel MacDonald (serving at All Saints’ Church in South Burlington, Vt.); The Rev. Edwin Johnson (St. James’s…

The diocese’s second annual Jubilee Celebrates Africa party was just getting underway at the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington on May 1 when the police showed up with a shut-down order.  The major water main break that for 2 1/2 days compromised the water supply for Boston and 29 other…

The Rev. Viki Pretti sprinkles holy water from her motorcycle helmet during the May 2 Blessing of the Motorcycles at All Saints’ Church in West Newbury. On Sunday, May 2, motorcyclists from as far away as Hartford, Conn., and Laconia, N.H., rode in to All Saints’ Church in West…

Members collect supplies for “Backpacks for Haiti.” The Church of St. John the Evangelist in Mansfield on May 8 took up a special collection:  backpacks filled with supplies for earthquake survivors in Haiti. “We are a small parish and probably almost everyone gave…