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Recovery Liturgy with Healing Prayers

Created for all people struggling with any form of addiction, our Service of Prayer and Healing for People in Recovery draws from the wisdom of the 12-step program and liturgies of the Episcopal Church. To join us via Zoom on Fridays at 3:30 pm, please contact The Rev. Susan Ackley: recovery@emmanuelboston.org for more information or an invitation. Although our service is geared toward those struggling with, or in recovery from, addiction, all are welcome.

Finding Our Faith

“Book officiant at least nine months before the wedding!” That’s what all the bridal magazines told me to do.

To be honest, with a year to plan I’d been more preoccupied with short ribs or halibut, buttercream or fondant, than with deciding who would perform our ceremony. But somewhere between selecting mini crab flautas to be served during cocktail hour and corn bisque for a starter, I realized the menu shouldn’t be my top priority. For the first time, Eric and I would have to explicitly address our different religious backgrounds and decide how Judaism and Christianity would factor into our life together.
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Ihr Seid die Gesegneten des Herren

A while back, during a worship service, the chorus of Emmanuel Music sang a motet Der Herr denket an uns, which is #9 in Johann Hermann Schein’s collection Israels Brünnlein. The text is from Psalm 115, verses 12–15. I sat there in my usual spot in the third row, soaking up the beauty in my usual way—not following along in the program but just watching the singers, players, and John Harbison’s conducting dance. And listening: listening with a ferocious desire for bigger ears so I could take in this miracle of sound that we call music.
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Our Building

Our building is a home and resource for a dynamic group of programs and organizations who partner with us to preserve this historic structure and project our ideals of justice, spirituality, and art into the community of the Boston metropolitan area.
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