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Dishes. Bones. Bottles. Brooches.  Underneath a quiet garden at the Old North Church, archeologists and their volunteers sifted through layers of soil to seek their own kind of treasure.  The archeological survey comes ahead of the church’s planned garden renovation, part of a…

Four carved stone pinnacles will soon return to their prominent location at the base of the steeple at the Grace Episcopal Church tower.  As Bishop Gayle E. Harris blessed the pinnacles Sunday at a special service at the church, she reminded the worshipers that these structures have an…

Episcopal City Mission marked a new day in its 172-year ministry as friends and supporters gathered June 14 for the organization's annual end-of-program-year celebration to welcome a new executive director and to honor individuals and groups engaged in urban social justice advocacy.Instead of the…

Outside the city pulsated, with sirens wailing and vehicles rumbling, life racing by as usual.Inside, there was only silence, the flickering of candlelight and a few tears.About 50 people gathered Monday night at Grace Episcopal Church to share thoughts, recite poetry and read prayers.But perhaps…

Following is a letter to the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from Bishop Alan M. Gates in the aftermath of the June 12 shootings in Orlando, Fla.:Lord, have mercy.  Christ, have mercy.  Lord, have mercy.A week ago I joined a neighborhood Peace Walk in Boston’s South End…

Following are local gatherings and services that diocesan parishes and organizations are hosting or participating in.  All are welcome.  Events will be added as information about them becomes known.  E-mail submissions to news@diomass.org.Monday, June 13:• Boston City Hall Plaza…

Bishop Alan M. Gates joined religious leaders from the Boston area at the Massachusetts General Hospital chapel on May 25, for a service to celebrate the chapel's 75th anniversary. Since the Gothic Revival chapel first opened on April 25, 1941, on the first level of the hospital's Baker Memorial…

More than 100 people descended upon Salem's Riley Plaza to offer one another support and in solidarity less than 24 hours after a lone shooter armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and a handgun killed 50 and wounded 53 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday morning.  In…

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] “Pray for the repose of the souls who have died,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in his video message, Prayers for Orlando, concerning the June 12 shooting in Orlando, FL in which 50 people died and 53 were injured…

“Who am I to judge?” These words echoed repeatedly through the sermon given at Trinity Church in Boston by the Hon. Margaret Marshall, retired chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, at a choral Evensong in thanksgiving for marriage equality throughout the United States and…