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'Chaplains on the streets' -- Capuchin Mobile Ministries reaches out to homeless

BOSTON In August 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the San Lorenzo Capuchin Friary in Jamaica Plain began using a customized van to deliver food to places where homeless people congregate. Since then, the ministry has expanded in both the frequency of their trips and the depth of relationships they develop with those they meet. ....

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Capuchins take homeless ministry to the streets


Brother Paul Fesefeldt demonstrates the features of the Capuchin Mobile Ministries van during the cardinal’s visit March 27. Pilot photo/Gregory L. Tracy
Cardinal O’Malley sprinkles the Capuchin Mobile Ministries van with holy water during the blessing. Pilot photo/Gregory L. Tracy
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JAMAICA PLAIN Before making their typical Saturday rounds, the Capuchin Mobile Ministries received a special visitor on March 27: Cardinal Sean P. O Malley came by to bless their specially designed van, which they use to serve the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless in Boston and Cambridge. ....

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Chaplains and the rise of on-demand spiritual support


Chaplains and the rise of on-demand spiritual support
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
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Carlito Ortiz hugs Lisa Loughlin, a Common Cathedral chaplain, after she prayed with him in Back Bay Station.
Mourning a death. Coping with grief. Healing the heartsick and soothing the sufferers. For much of human history, people addressed loss and trauma through rituals drawn from faith traditions, performed in spaces we called sacred churches, temples, shrines, mosques and led by ministers and rabbis, imams and priests. But in New England, where the influence of Puritan piety has yielded to unceremonious secularism, something more malleable is emerging. To meet spiritual needs when and where they arise, we’re turning to chaplains, people trained to work outside the structure of religious institutions. As church attendance nationally also declines, “the need for chaplains will only increase,” says Shelly Rambo, an associate prof ....

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