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The Third Sunday of Easter
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: 4.16.10
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| PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS |
The people of Haiti and of Chile, James, Renee Polychronis, Ella, Janet, Sister Maureen Maloney, C.S.J., Doug Doller, Donna Weber, Jack Seeman, Yasso Herath, Susan, Kevin Egan, Claire Corgan, Christian Marsh, Charles Drumm, Alasdair Loudon, Hector Lombardi, Joseph, Sister Patricia Lynch, CSJ, Lisa, Raymond MacKenzie, Bill & Catherine Lubeck, Victoria Pontecorvo, Bill & Catherine Lubeck, Leigh Holt, Austen Strait
FLOWER MEMORIALS: Jane McBride, Joseph & Marion Coughlin, George & Miriam Nikola
This list is refreshed monthly please call the office to add a name, or to request that a name be carried forward. There is a book in the narthex where -- before the service begins -- you may add names to be read during the Prayers of the People for the day |
THE COLLECT FOR SUNDAY
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. |
The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the pentrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future.
Wendell Berry in Recollected Essays 1965-1980 (North Point Press, 1981) |
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THIS WEEK
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Sunday, April 18
8:00am Holy Eucharist
9:30am Prayer service & work day outside/No church school classes
10:10am PARISH FORUM - join outdoor church school activities/Adult refreshments 11:00am Holy Eucharist & Baptisms CONGRATULATIONS TO: Alena Rose DeJesusand Gio Vincent Margagliotta, who will be baptized at the 11:00am service, and to Christopher Thomas Harding, who was confirmed last Sunday, April 11 at the Church of the Intercession in New York City.
3:00pm Amazing Grace Circus Rehearsal (Memorial)
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)
Tuesday, April 20
10:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
4:00pmAmazingGraceCircusAfterschool (Memorial)
7:30pm Vestry (Patterson Hall)
8:00pm Choir
Wednesday, April 21
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus (Memorial)
Thursday, April 22
7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)
Friday, April 23
4:00pm Cub Scouts (Memorial Hall)
Saturday, April 24
10:00am Amazing Grace Circus
9:00pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall)
Sunday, April 25
8:00am/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10am PARISH FORUM: Episcopal Church History
4:00pm GraceMusic presents: Happy Birthday Johann
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)
6:30pm French Creole Mass
9:00pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall) |
GRACEMUSIC PRESENTS: Happy Birthday Johann - April 25 at 4:00pm
Cantatas and concerti performed by the Grace Church Choir and Orchestra conducted by Robert Barrows to celebrate Bach's 325th, including greetings from Dietrich Buxtehude and Antonio Vivaldi. Admission: $15; Seniors $10, Students $5Free Childcare available! Meet the Artists receptions follow. |
CONFIRMATION REDUX: AN ALL-PARISH REFRESHER COURSE
Whether one was confirmed 50 years ago or 5 years ago or is just now considering joining the Episcopal Church - all of us need to review the basics from time to time. Come join in with the rest of your parish community as we prepare to corporately renew our Baptismal Covenant during the Bishop's visit to Grace Church on June 6. From April 25 through May 30 the All Parish Forums (10:10-10:50am each Sunday) will be dedicated to the exploration (and explanation) of Anglican/Episcopal history, our view of scripture and ministry, our unique styles of spirituality, and our rich tradition of liturgy and music. All are invited and encouraged to attend! A note to those considering confirmation, reception or reaffirmation in the Episcopal Church: This series is part of the Adult Confirmation Course for this year. If you wish to be baptized, confirmed, received, or to reaffirm your vows or are even contemplating one of these actions, this class is for you. Please contact the clergy to let them know of your interest and they will be happy to talk with you about these steps which take place at the Bishop's visit once each year. |
FINAL HELPING HANDS
Our last time to host Helping Hands will be on Saturday, April 24, Sunday, April 25 and Monday, April 26. The Senior Youth Group has volunteered to provide dinner on the 25th but we need volunteers to cook and serve dinner on the 24th and 26th, and overnight supervisors for each date. This is your last chance to help with this ministry until next year. The sign-up sheets are on the bulletin board in the narthex, or you can email Charlie Cross at cjcross3ny@yahoo.com. |
ROCKLAND PARENT CHILD CENTER: 16th ANNUAL RIVER AUCTION
"Cruise The Hudson" A Sunset Cruise aboard the historic MWV Commander
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 6 - 8:30pm Haverstraw Marina
Silent Auction on board Enjoy evening of wine, beer, hors d'oeuvres & live jazz
Tickets $75 RSVP May 1st, 845-358-2702, ext. 12 or buy tickets at www.rocklandparentchild.org All proceeds benefit family support programming at RPCC |
OUR TWELFTH SEASON AT BOSCOBEL! SUNDAY, JUNE 27
If you have attended any of the past eleven performances at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, you know the setting on the great lawn can't be matched and the actors give their all, rain or shine. This year's play, The Taming of the Shrew, is a playfully provocative battle of the sexes pitting the shrewish Katharina against the fortune-seeking Petruchio. The Fellowship Commission has already reserved 55 seats for our Grace Church family and friends. So mark your calendars for the 6:00pm performance on Sunday, June 27. Details will follow in the next Messenger and reservations will be accepted beginning in May. |
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KEEPING QUIET
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victory with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), "Keeping Quiet"
Extravagaria(translated by Alastair Reid) |
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| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.130 First Avenue.Nyack.New York.10960.845-358-1297
The Reverend Richard L. Gressle, Rector
The Reverend Emily Sieracki, Assistant to the Rector
Robert Barrows, Organist & Choirmaster
www.gracechurchnyack.org | |
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