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Bishop Alan M. Gates ordained five deacons and five transitional deacons on Saturday, June 4 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.The new deacons are the Rev. Thomas A. Bartlett (sponsored by Emmanuel Church in Boston); the Rev. Philip J. Flaherty (St. Stephen's Church in Cohasset); the…

Governor Charlie Baker offered his congratulations Tuesday morning at a celebration for the expansion of a tuition-free Dorchester Episcopal school serving children from low-income Boston families.“I can’t wait to see what comes of all this,” Baker said at the groundbreaking ceremony, “because you…

On June 10, at 5 p.m., Esperanza Academy will hold its annual commencement ceremony for the graduating class of 2016 at Grace Church in Lawrence. This year’s commencement speaker will be the Hon. Dan Rivera, Mayor of Lawrence. Esperanza Academy proudly presents its eighth-grade graduates, the Class…

Kelsey Rice Bogdan has been appointed as the new executive director of Life Together, a strategic ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts through which emerging young adult leaders reside together in intentional community while serving 10-month social justice fellowships in Boston,…

Storytellers draw from their experiences on Boston’s streets in the Black Seed Writers Group, hosted by the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.Click the link above to ready the full story.

It’s like a living room, a recent visitor said of Dinah’s House, the new storefront ministry now open on Emerson Street in downtown Haverhill, “a living room within our busy city where women feel at home, safe and supported.” Sponsored by nearby Trinity Church, the new drop-in center is described…

Bishops United Against Gun Violence is urging Episcopalians to consider wearing orange on June 2 as a sign of their commitment to reducing gun violence in their communities.Bishop Alan M. Gates and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Diocese of Massachusetts are members of the organization, a group of…

St. Dunstan’s Church in Dover has long been one of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts’ standard-bearers for creation care initiatives, and now the parish has signed on to a national commitment to further reduce the size of its carbon footprint.The St. Dunstan’s vestry voted in late April to…

Back in the late 1970s, Brian Murdoch, now the parish priest at Grace Episcopal Church, wanted to live the Benedictine model of work, study, and prayer.This summer, Father Murdoch’s notion comes to fruition in a collaboration between Grace Church and Norton Farm. The Island institutions will co…

Last week, I had the privilege to gather with the other 200-plus Episcopal priests in the Diocese of Massachusetts who attended our annual conference.  We heard from Andrew McGowan, the dean of my former seminary, Berkeley at Yale Divinity School.  He spoke about his research into the…