Join us for the
Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
The Holy Eucharist
in the Lindsey Chapel
Sunday, July 22, 10:00 am
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SUNDAY PARKING at the Back Bay Garage (entrance located at
199 Clarendon Street Boston, MA 02116
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Vouchers are available during coffee hour. Your ticket is good for a 3 hour period on Sunday beginning at 8:00am. The price for 3 hours is $5. Beyond that, the regular rate applies.
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This Sunday at Chapel Camp:
The Wild Edge of Sorrow:
Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
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There are various kinds of grief and so many people carry their sorrow in isolation. Yet we are called to bear one another's burdens and ease one another's loads. Sunday, we will gather after the service to talk about the universal experience of grief and loss. We’ll start with psychologist and group leader, Francis Weller’s thoughts from his recent book,
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief.
Weller's goal is “to restore soul to grief work, and grief to soul work,” introducing us to his “five gates of grief” which we’ll discuss. This will be an interactive gathering, with time for sharing of ideas. Leading the discussion will be our rector, Pam Werntz, and Nadja B. Gould, LICSW, a clinical social worker with many years of experience working with terminally ill patients, hospice, and bereavement.
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Chapel Camp is the name of our program of activities
that follow worship and refreshments on Sunday mornings
between June and early September. It's one way to
strengthen our connections with one another, with our
traditions, and with our larger community and the
world. The schedule is available in print at the back of the
chapel and on line at www.EmmanuelBoston.org.
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Welcome William Thomas Collein-Caulfield!
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Sunday,
we welcome William Thomas Collein-Caulfield into the Christian family through his baptism! William is the son of Janice Collein and Mary Caulfield.
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The 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church wrapped-up on Friday the 13th in Austin, Texas. Check out the coverage by the Episcopal News Service and the Massachusetts deputation blog or find information about the resolutions in the virtual binder.
• Episcopal News Service: Sign up for the daily email at https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/
• Resolutions: Track resolutions as they make their way through the legislative process at https://www.vbinder.net/resolutions?house=hd&lang=en
• For Massachusetts deputation blog, visit https://diomassatgc.com
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To our brothers and sisters at Emmanuel Church,
We want to make a specific invitation for you to join your friends at CRT for Friday evening Shabbat services. Our next service is this Friday July 20th. A Sabbath pre-service welcome reception begins at 6PM, followed at 6:30 by services. We worship in Lindsey Chapel. On these beautiful summer nights, it is nice to see our CRT family but would love to see you too.
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Tuesday morning Bible Study
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Tuesday morning Bible Study meets in July and all odd-numbered months, from 7:30-8:30 am in the Emmanuel Room (through the kitchen of the Parish House). All are welcome. Come whenever you are able to join us for this lively conversation with the Rector.
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St. Margaret's Day!
on Friday, July 20th
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The Sisters of St. Margaret welcome everyone to the celebration of St. Margaret’s Day on Friday, July 20. The Eucharist is at 11am, in the (air conditioned) chapel at
30 Harden Hill Road, Duxbury
. A reception will follow. Please RSVP if you can come. Telephone us at 781 934 9477 x 701 or email
sisters@ssmbos.org
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This year we had a full week of B-SAFE (Bishop’s Summer Academic and Fun Enrichment) at the St. Mary’s Episcopal Church site in Dorchester from Monday July 9 to Friday July 13. Our task was to provide healthy lunches and warm welcome to more than 50 elementary school kids and a dozen teenage counselors, plus adult staff. That was topped off with a day at the Stone Zoo on Friday.
We watched a fine new leader guide these young children, some for the first time, through a day camp designed to extend learning into the summer along with great field trips and playtime. It was a rewarding week for us and I remember hearing fill your bellies AND fill your hearts, as they were encouraged to enjoy their lunch with their neighbors. They were also encouraged to eat the food that we provided, which was a challenge for some along with handling a plastic knife for the first time. There were tacos to assemble, chicken and rice, falafels with pita pockets to fill, turkey and cheese sandwiches, and of course pizza from the local pizzeria in Upham’s Corner. What an amazing bunch of good eaters!
This year Margaret Lias stepped up to co-coordinate our on-site preparation and involvement with me. Our on-site teams were in charge of cleaning and setting tables, preparing the serving bowls for each table, helping the counselors serve the very young ones, managing the seconds, and cleaning up. Ellen Hinkle, Susan Entin, Pam Werntz, and Jim Bradley all came multiple days, and Carolyn Roosevelt, Bill Gramby, and Frank Bunn joined us on Wednesday. Liz Levin came to the zoo on Friday to help Margaret and me serve lunch and watch over the park side of things where they enjoyed the playground or colored animal pictures (a few examples are shown here).
Now where did all that food come from? Joy Howard made a mountain of taco meat and beans for us on the weekend! I made chicken and rice, and Margaret cooked up falafels. Pat Krol, Barbara DeVries, and Edgar Brenninkmeyer worked with Margaret to assemble 76 lunch bags for Friday.
Thank you to all who donated efforts and funds to support our work including the afghan makers and raffle ticket buyers, and our delightful benefit concert in June with the Three Sopranos and the Lindale singers from Maine.
- Peggy Bradley
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Join the Chapel Choir! The Chapel Choir is a non-auditioned group that sings for Emmanuel’s Chapel services during the summer months (beginning May 27). Singers should have some experience with choral music and be able to read music and match pitch. Rehearsals are at 9am before the 10am service. Please let Chapel Choir Director Kevin Neel (
organist@emmanuelboston.org
) know if you are interested in singing.
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This past spring the Vestry focused on projects that will secure and renovate our building. We have also been preparing for Pam’s upcoming sabbatical. Below is a description of the most important recent developments.
1. Vestry Retreat: In mid-May, the vestry engaged in a rejuvenating retreat experience at the
Sisters of St. Margaret in Duxbury, MA. At this year’s retreat, Pam and The Rev. Susan
Ackley (who will be our sabbatical priest-in-residence) co-led the event, guiding our
discussion and activities on the theme of the hamsa, an ancient symbol used in Judaism,
Islam, and Christianity. The vestry reflected on how the symbolism of the hamsa may act as
a metaphor during Pam’s upcoming sabbatical later this year. We considered how the vestry
may channel the qualities of the hamsa – generosity, strength, protection, replenishment,
blessing, power, well-being and shalom/salaam – into how we lead and live in community at
Emmanuel. The retreat provided a wonderful opportunity for the vestry to get to know
Susan better and plan how we would work together during Pam’s sabbatical. The vestry
created 2 hamsas during the retreat, which we will place in the parish hall and lobby. We
hope to have an after-service discussion in the fall on the hamsa and how we may channel its symbolism at Emmanuel this fall and into the future.
2. Back Wall Project: After 6 years in the making, we are in the final phase of the back wall
renovation project. We expect the renovation work will be completed by the end of June.
Unfortunately, the building commission can’t kick back and take the rest of the summer off
now that all the hard work they channeled into the back wall project over the last 6 years is
finally completed! We have other high priority building renovation projects (e.g., a section of
the roof, the front doors and the elevator) that we are planning or evaluating to address this
year. We are grateful for the tremendous work our building commission does to secure our
building and help us use it as a mission asset.
3. Fire/Alarm System: The vestry approved a recommendation by the building commission
to fund a comprehensive building fire safety analysis. The building commission
recommended consultants CSI to conduct the fire safety analysis. Our building and finance
commissions work have requested this analysis to determine how to update our fire/alarm
system at our 15 Newbury Street property. We will have more to report on this topic as the
year progresses.
4. Pew Cushions: The vestry approved funding to restore the remaining pew cushions
(basically the last third of the cushions in the Sanctuary that haven’t yet been restored).
Over the last 10 years, we funded restoring about two-thirds of the pew cushions in the
Sanctuary. Nancy Peabody is graciously provided leadership, working with our vendor, to
restore these cushions. She has shepherded this project over the last 10 years. We expect the
last of the pew cushions will be restored by this fall. Thank you Nancy!
5. Safety/Security Plan: Our Safety and Security task force, led by Tom Barber, is regularly
holding meetings to develop a safety security plan. The safety security plan would provide
specific guidelines for each room/function at Emmanuel on how to proceed in the case of a
safety emergency, as well as disaster response/recovery plans. The task force expects to
create a draft plan this summer. We will be sharing more information on this plan as we
finalize it.
6. Financial education: As a result of our Mutual Ministry Review with our rector in January, the vestry has committed to improving our understanding of our financial well-being at Emmanuel. The vestry has been studying the Episcopal Church’s Manual of Business Methods to ensure that we are in compliance and that we are following best practices for parishes.
7. Mission Hub: Isaac Everett provided the vestry an update on the Mission Hub at our
May meeting. The Mission Hub plans to open a second Mission Hub residential community
in Allston by the end of the summer. This house will be called the “Emmanuel House.” We
are currently engaged in a serious of community conversations about Emmanuel’s mission
priorities and how the Emmanuel House will extend and enhance those commitments. We
invite all to participate in those conversations (2nd and 4th Sundays at 12:30 pm), and we are taking applications for anyone in our Emmanuel congregation who would like to live in this
house. The first Mission Hub community, 3 Atherton Street, plans to move to a property
belonging to Trinity Church in Newton Centre. The Mission Hub itself plans to incorporate
as a 501(c)(3) entity under the name CRECHE (Charles River Episcopal Co-Housing
Endeavor). This entity and not the individual parishes that constitute the Mission Hub, will
be responsible for managing all the Mission Hub properties.
Submitted by: Sharon Ballard, Clerk
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A Message from Episcopal City Mission-
Urgent: Act Now to Keep Families Together
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This Administration's separation of children from families and subsequent order to indefinitely hold families seeking safety in the U.S. in detention is cruel and immoral. Many of these families are asylum seekers forced to flee violent persecution or grinding poverty in their home countries to ensure the well being of their children.
These unjust practices deny the humanity and dignity of those who have risked their lives for safety.
Even in Massachusetts we have cause for concern, on June 19, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice and Latham and Watkins LLP filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court in Boston to hold Bristol County's sheriff Thomas Hodgson, and the Bristol County Sheriff's Office accountable for their illegal detention of immigrants. As we continue to serve and love our neighbor, we urge you to join us in prayer and act on behalf of families impacted by these inhumane policies.
- Advocate - Write your US Senators and Representatives through Episcopal Public Policy Network's online form and ask them to stop separating and detaining families.
- Donate: Increase the access our immigrant neighbors have to legal representation and bail fees by donating to an Immigrant Legal Fund. To support detainees in in Massachusetts give to ECM'sImmigrant Legal Fund. To improve support for families on the border donate to RAICES in Texas (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services).
We encourage you to find your local faith community this weekend. Attend church or temple or mosque and sit with other committed people of faith who, like you, may be struggling to find God's voice and presence in this challenging national moment. Leave refreshed and reconnected to do the work God is asking of each of us.
For More Information:
Natalie E. Finstad
Director of Programs and Engagement
617 - 482 - 5800 ext 579 (office)
832 - 454- 6631 (cell)
natalie@episcopalcitymission.org
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Immigrant family protections:
A message from Bishop Gates
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Thank you to those who have returned their cards so quickly. We hope to receive many more! It is a delight each year to see the garden at Emmanuel return and flourish. The soothing greens and vibrant colors draw our attention to the beauty of the creation. While it may seem to bloom effortlessly, the garden requires work and financial support. This year, bulbs, compost, and shrubbery, as well as a new irrigation system will be needed. All donations to revitalize the garden will be accepted with gratitude. You can contribute with cash, checks or using CashApp! Our CashApp cashtag is $EmmanuelChurchBoston. Please be sure to indicate Emmanuel Garden on your gift and if you have questions, please contact Sarah Brock in the parish office.
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Weekly ERD News:
Healing a Hurting World
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Weekly ERD News: Healing a Hurting World
Episcopal Relief and Development collaborates with communities around the world to address three life-changing priorities – Women, Children, and Climate. We have lately focused on Women and Children.
Today let’s take a look at their work on issues related to Climate. Weather patterns are rapidly changing with the number of climate-related disasters doubling in the past 20 years. ERD and partners work to help families and communities work together so they can be better prepare for and recover from climate-related traumas in five key areas:
Improving Food and Nutrition - In underserved areas, ERD works with community members to expand food access and availability, creating long-term strategies that help families feed themselves while protecting the environment and generating new forms of income. They empower communities to embrace sustainable agriculture by planting trees to improve soil and reduce erosion, anticipating and planning for weather changes, and leveraging the unique knowledge and experience of women farmers.
Creating Economic Stability - It’s very difficult to recover from climate-related disasters if communities do not have the resources needed to get back on their feet. ERD programs strengthen communities and empower individuals and families to find creative ways to maximize their earning power and potential.
Providing access to Clean Water, Hygiene, and Sanitation – As we have reviewed previously, clean water, proper sanitation, and hygiene education are critically important to prevent the spread of disease, as well as protect communities when climate-related disasters occur.
Reducing the Impact of Disasters - ERD’s work is designed to help communities anticipate, resist, cope with, and recover from climate-related hazards and events. Globally their disaster programs help people prepare for crises, as well as coordinate and train local partners and communities to better serve and care for at-risk populations. Disaster relief remains long after the crisis is over to help communities heal, recover, and rebuild long-term. Note that Emmanuel is working on its disaster program.
Managing Environmental Preparedness - The best defense against climate-related disasters is to be as prepared as possible before disaster strikes. ERD staff and partners are committed to properly safeguarding land and other natural resources to protect the environment, lessen the impact of disasters, and minimize suffering and damage that often hinder the recovery process.
Please visit the organization's website for more information about relief and recovery efforts and donate at
www.episcopalrelief.org
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You may have heard about a mobile application for your smartphone called CashApp. This is a secure platform designed to allow you to make donations or payments, transferring money quickly and easily to friends, organizations, and businesses. With CashApp you can link your debit card or bank account. This app makes it easy to choose a recipient and send money with a click. Our CashApp cashtag is $EmmanuelChurchBoston. You can still give to Emmanuel with cash, checks, or online. CashApp is simply an additional way to help us make being generous easy and accessible to all who support our mission! Please be sure to indicate if your gift should go towards your annual pledge or another special designation. If you have questions, please contact Morgan Middlebrook in the parish office:
parishassist@emmanuelboston.org
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Making Sandwiches for BostonWarm
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Reflection from Jaylyn Olivo
In retirement, I try to keep myself sane and busy with volunteer projects. I lead – with other volunteers – a weekly ESL conversation group at the Brookline Public Library. I work on Fridays when we’re in town at the Appleton Farm cheese stall at the Boston Public Market, where I’m effectively a cheese shill – although they call us Cheese Ambassadors. And once a week I make sandwiches for the Monday gathering of BostonWarm at Emmanuel. It seems like cheating not to actually work at BostonWarm, just to cruise in and deposit a couple of loaves of bread’s worth of sandwiches and cruise out. But it’s a contribution I’m happy to make, and it’s satisfying to know that the folks who visit us every Monday can leave with some sustenance for the rest of the day. I hear from the staff that the sandwiches are greatly appreciated. And, after all, it’s a more direct way to feed the hungry among us than donating money to a food bank. It’s the very least we can do.
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Gratitude from Ecclesia Ministries
Thank you for all the ways that you are supporting
common cathedral!
We are so grateful. We hope that in 2018 you come and see first hand the work Emmanuel is supporting for those who call the streets of Boston Home - We would love to see you and offer you a cup of coffee! This year we are still in need of your yummy sandwiches to distribute and the generous donations from our wish list. Also, if you are able, we would love some volunteers to come to our Feed Your Spirit (FYS) program. At FYS we have a guest presenter who shares about how God has worked in their life and about what they do to feed their spirit. This sharing can be an activity, a practice or experience that connects them to God. FYS takes place every Thursday at 10:00 am at Old South Church. Interested in this or other opportunities to be involved? Contact Amanda Grant Rose at
amanda@commoncathedral.org
Support Ecclesia Ministries and common cathedral’s programs
: Click on the link below that will take you to a new way to support the programs. Please consider checking out our wish list by clicking the green button below. Click on an item and help out!
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Thank you!
Amanda Grant-Rose
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Episcopal Relief & Development
urges prayers and financial contributions for all who are dealing with the impact of the recent hurricanes, earthquake, and fire. Please visit the organization's website for more information about relief and recovery efforts and donate at
www.episcopalrelief.org
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Becoming Beloved Community:
the Episcopal Church’s Long-Term Commitment
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Becoming Beloved Community
: the Episcopal Church’s Long-Term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice. Churchwide discussion and webinars have begun. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and House of Deputies President the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings and officers of the House of Bishops and House of Deputies are inviting Episcopalians to study and commit to using Becoming Beloved Community: The Episcopal Church’s Long-term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation and Justice. Leaders say
Becoming Beloved Community
is designed as a strategic path through distinct phases that lead to personal and structural change.
- Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, via a census to determine church demographics and a Racial Justice Audit to study the impact of racism on the Church’s leadership, organizations and bodies
- Proclaiming the Dream of Beloved Community, via a series of regional public listening and learning engagements, starting with a partnership at Washington National Cathedral
- Practicing the Way of Love, via a churchwide Beloved Community story-sharing campaign, multilingual and multigenerational formation and training, pilgrimages and liturgical resources
- Repairing the Breach in Institutions and Society, via advocacy for criminal justice reform, re-entry collaboratives shaped by people moving from prison back to community, and partnership with Saint Augustine’s University and Voorhees College (the historically black university and college associated with the Episcopal Church)
For more information go to www.episcopalchurch.org.
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At Emmanuel -
Name Tags for All
- Because it's always nice to be able to attach a name to a face, we encourage you to wear a name tag. You may find them along the wall in the Parish Hall, alphabetized by FIRST name. We encourage you to put your pronouns (he/him, she/her, etc.) on your name tag. By doing this, we help make Emmanuel Church a more welcoming place for transgender worshippers. If you don't see a name tag along the wall in the Parish Hall, and would like to have one, please find Susan Kieffer at church or email her at
vestry.susan@emmanuelboston.org
with your name and pronouns.
Emmanuel Church Photography and Social Media
Communicating through social media helps our efforts to build community and expand our reach to people who are new to Emmanuel, as well as to Emmanuelites around the world. Volunteers help spread the Word by taking photos before, during, and after services, posting, and sharing online. We value the sanctity of our worship and aim to strike a balance between sharing life at Emmanuel and creating a sacred space for all, filled with wonder, love, thanksgiving, and praise. No one will be tagged or identified by name in a photo without their permission and other privacy wishes will be respected on request. If you are interested in helping in these efforts or have concerns, please see a vestry member after the service.
Care Commission
If you can write notes or make visits, we would love to have your help. Do you know someone who is in the hospital, or confined at home? Know someone who needs a ride to or from a medical appointment, or would just appreciate a visit? The Care Commission wants to help. Contact Pauline Ratta (617-469-2232) or Walter Jonas (617-696-8020) and we will see that a pastoral response is provided.
Small Wonders
is our program for young children and usually meets the 1
st
Sunday of each month for half an hour during the sermon and prayers of the 10:00 service. We are using the Godly Play curriculum, which is based on Montessori principles. Children have an innate sense of the presence of God. The Godly Play approach helps them to explore their faith through story, gain religious language, and enhance their spiritual experience though wonder and play. A simple seasonal/lectionary appropriate story will be told using the Godly Play materials. Curiosity and imagination will be encouraged as the children experience the mystery, joy, and love of God! The program is led by Deacon Bob and Linnea Massie.
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Reminder of Sanctuary
In a typical week, Emmanuel Church provides sanctuary and hospitality for as many as 1500 people who are living on the various margins of our society because of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability, addiction, immigration status, religion, and so on. Coming together to help lift heavy hearts and carry heavy burdens is what we do, and many hands make light work. Every single one of us has some capacity to join in this vital mission, thanks to Love. – plw
Emmanuel Church
supports the mission of religious, social service, and artistic organizations by providing space and some staff support for meetings, concerts, events, and functions. As our mission states, Emmanuel Church strives for justice and peace. Your financial contributions help us continue to support these organizations vital to the health and spiritual wellness of the City of Boston. We are proud to support the mission of:
- AA and Al-Anon Meetings
- Artists-in-Residence: Sara Peattie, Puppeteer & Ted Southwick, Woodcarver
- Back Alley Puppet Theater & Free Lending Library
- Back Bay Chorale: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Gay Men’s Chorus: weekly rehearsals
- Boston Early Music Festival
- BostonWarm (see Ecclesia Ministries below)
- Calliope: weekly rehearsals
- Central Reform Temple
- Ecclesia Ministries: BostonWarm day center for people without shelter; and the common art studio program for unhoused and marginally housed people
- Eliot Center: Safe Haven, a shelter for women
- Emmanuel Music, Inc.
- Ethos: weekly GLBT Senior luncheon
- Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
- Onnuri I:um Chapel Korean Presbyterian Campus Ministry
- Universal Worship in Boston: A Celebration of One Human Family
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The Episcopal Church welcomes you! Come and see...
watch the video below and learn more.
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Contact: Morgan Middlebrook
Parish Assistant
at parishassist@emmanuelboston.org
Learn more by clicking the links below.
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15 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
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