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The Sixth Sunday of Easter
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: 5.7.10
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| PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS |
The people of Haiti, Chile and China,
James, Renee Polychronis, Janet, Sister Maureen Maloney, C.S.J., Doug Doller, Donna Weber, Elizabeth, Kyle Millian, Joseph Orfino, Elizabeth Ernst Sydor, Eve, Alasdair Loudon, Hector Lombardi, Jack Seeman, Lisa Hill Byrne, Susan, Bob Barrows, Kitty S., Charles Drumm, Riley Saper, Shelby Saper, Laura Elmore, Gloria Clark, Ray Mac Kenzie
REST IN PEACE: Andrew Sipp
FLOWER MEMORIALS Harry A. Chalke,May Billingsley, Ella & Henry Kreisinger, Katharine & William Fulmor, James & Dorothea Curren, Betty Warn, Charlotte Bartels Lynch, Ralph Lombardi 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, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Mother Love
Some of our mothers taught us what it was like to be loved. Some others of us grew up with mothers who couldn't really teach us much about love, because they'd never really learned themselves. We tend to idealize mothers as the perfect dispensers of love.
Sometimes mothers do their best work by getting out of the way, or by leaving. After all, children need that to grow up, too. After all, even Jesus gets out of the way so we can try his way for ourselves.
When Jesus is getting ready to leave his disciples, he begins to tell them good-bye. It's not so different from the speech a mother on her deathbed might give the kids: "Now children, I won't be with you much longer. You are going to keep looking for me. . . but you can't come where I'm going. I'm giving you some new instructions: love each other, just the way I've loved you. Everybody will know whose family you come from if you love each other."
The kids get a remarkable challenge-now it's time to put to work everything they've been taught. Love one another, as I have loved you.
What does love look like? Getting out of the way, so another person can try. Blood, sweat, and tears. Feeding one another. Above all, love liberates, love sets us free to be more than we thought possible. Love one another as I have loved you. Befriend the stranger. Engage your enemy in love. Challenge the unlovable. Go hunting for the unloved.
From "Mother Love" in A Wing and a Prayer by Katharine Jefferts Schori |
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THIS WEEK
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FRIDAY, MAY 7
11:00am Memorial Service for Andrew Sipp
4:00pm Cub Scouts (Memorial Hall)
SATURDAY, MAY 8
9:00am Adult Spiritual Formation (Patterson)
10:00am - Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
11:00am - 3:00pm Annual Plant Sale & Garden Work Day
SUNDAY, MAY 9
8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist (Guest preacher Rachel Pettengill, 8:00am/11:00am)
10:10 - No Church School - Refreshments in Memorial Hall
3:00pm Amazing Grace Circus
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)
6:30pm - French Creole Mass (Church)
TUESDAY, MAY 11
10:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
3:30pm Amazing Grace Circus
7:00pm Diversity Training Worskshop (Memorial)
8:00pm Choir
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
3:30pm Amazing Grace Circus (Memorial)
7:00pm Confirmation Class (Patterson Hall)
THURSDAY, MAY 13
7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast
SUNDAY, MAY 16
CYSM Yard Sale
8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10am PARISH FORUM: Spirituality and Scripture
3:00pm Amazing Grace Circus |
ANNUAL PLANT SALE AND GARDEN WORK DAY
Saturday, May 8 from 11:00am-3:00pm in MemorialGarden
Come to buy bouquets for Mother's Day, perennials, plants from the ChurchGarden, gardening books, and other garden-related items
Help by bringing bouquets from your garden, plants and garden-related items for sale, selling and/or transplanting small plants in preparation for the new garden design.
Call or email Karin Baere 353-8694 baerefamily@optonline.net or Linda Chisholm 358-2683 lachisholm@verizon.net Proceeds will be contributed to church operating budget. |
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WELCOME TO: Guest organist Mark Peterson, who will be filling in for Robert Barrows for several weeks. Mark came to New York in 1994 to assume the position of Assistant Organist and Music Department Administrator at Trinity Church, Wall Street. He subsequently enjoyed interim positions at the Church of St. James the Less in Scarsdale, St. Bartholomew's, White Plains, and finally, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn Heights, New York. From 2003 through 2009 is was the Director of Music and Organist for St. Paul's Church, Carroll Gardens, a historic Anglo-Catholic church in Brooklyn. Educated at Iowa State University and St.Olaf College, Mark did graduate work at Cambridge University. Mark is a composer and contributor to the Episcopal hymnal supplement, Wonder, Love and Praise, and also a carillonneur, and choral clinician. |
GUEST PREACHER ON SUNDAY
Former parishioner Rachael Pettengill, will be back at Grace on Sunday, May 9 to share her experience as an intern in the Micah Project, and Episcopal Youth Service Corps program in Boston, Massachusetts. She'll preach at the 8:00am and 11:00am services and will be available to chat during the 10:10-10:50am refreshment time. |
DIVERSITY WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH
The Youth Commission will sponsor its annual Diversity Workshop on Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00pmin Memorial Hall. Members and leaders of Boy Scout Troop #2, Confirmands, Junior Youth Group members and middle/high school members of the Amazing Grace Circus! are invited to attend. |
EPISCOPAL CHURCH WOMEN'S ANNUAL SPRING LUNCHEON
Monday, May 17 at St. John'sChurch in New City
Everyone is welcome to attend this annual luncheon which begins with a business meeting at 10:30am followed by Holy Eucharist at 11:15am and a luncheon ($4) at noon. The celebrant will be The Rev. William Dearman, and The Rev. Claire Lofgren (St. Paul's, Spring Valley) will be the speaker. To reserve a place, please call Emily Bollman by May 13 (638-0543) |
REMINDER - CONFIRMATION TACO "BANQUET"
Wednesday, May 26 from 6-8:00 pm will be the last class, end of year "banquet" and rehearsal for the confirmation service itself. This class is for all Confirmands, Mentors, Parents (at least one parent/adult guardian for each confirmand must attend) and families of mentors and confirmands (brothers and sisters are most welcome on this night!). Please note the time - 6-8:00pm and the place - Memorial Hall. We'll have dinner and games so please call the office and let us know how many people you will bring and if you have any special dietary needs.
A NOTE TO ADULTS CONSIDERING CONFIRMATION, RECEPTION OR REAFFIRMATION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
If you wish to be baptized, confirmed, received, or to reaffirm your vows, 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. There will be a rehearsal for the service on Wednesday, May 26 from 7-8:00pm. |
COMING SOON - OUR ANNUAL CYSM YARD SALE
SUNDAY, MAY 16 SAVE THE DATE & YOUR "STUFF"
SUPPORT CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP TO NICARAGUA
Questions? Donations? Call Vickie Hertz at 353 9147. |
AIDS WALK NEW YORK
Episcopal Response to AIDS invites you to join fellow Episcopalians and others supporting its participation in AIDS Walk New York. Sunday, May 16, inside 72nd & 5th Avenue entrance to Central Park in Manhattan - activities begin at 8:00am with a free continental breakfast, pre-walk Eucharist, etc. 10K walk begins at 9:45am. To register to walk/make a donation: go to www.erany.org and select "Episcopal Response to AIDS - 7881," or call 212-807-9255 |
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RESERVE YOUR SEATS TODAY! SHAKESPEARE'S WEDDING MANIA AT BOSCOBEL
SUNDAY, JUNE 27 AT 6:00pm
The Fellowship Commission is delighted to begin taking reservations Sunday for another of Shakespeare's witty comedies, The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista has two daughters who need to be married off: Bianca, beautiful and docile, and Katherina, renowned for her sharp tongue and temper. As the oldest, Katherina must marry first even though she has vowed never to wed. Enter the flamboyant Petruchio who agrees to marry Kate sight-unseen when he learns of her sizeable dowry. Will he succeed in curing Kate of her quick-witted, scolding tongue, or will she prove his perfect match? Please join our Grace family and friends for this quintessential battle-of-the-sexes. We have 50 seats reserved @ $32 per ticket for the Sunday, June 27 performance at 6:00pm. As usual, picnicking overlooking the Hudson is optional beginning at 4:00pm, weather permitting. Don't tarry, say YES today, or you might miss an hilarious start to summer. Any questions? Ready to make reservations? Contact Barbara Cross during coffee hour or @ 358-4599 or send an e-mail to babcross@aol.com. You may also call the church office to reserve, (358-4599, ext. 10) then write a check ($32.00 per ticket) to Grace Episcopal Church (with Shakespeare on memo line), hand it in or mail to the church office. See you there! Barbara Cross |
CONFIRMATION REDUX: AN ALL-PARISH REFRESHER COURSE
BEGINS THIS SUNDAY WITH PARISH FORUM ON ANGLICAN/EPISCOPAL HISTORY
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 23 the All Parish Forums (10:10-10:50am each Sunday) will be dedicated to the exploration (and explanation) of Anglican/Episcopal history (April 25), 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. |
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To My Mother
by Wendell Berry
I was your rebellious son,
do you remember? Sometimes
I wonder if you do remember,
so complete has your forgiveness been.
So complete has your forgiveness been
I wonder sometimes if it did not
precede my wrong, and I erred,
safe found, within your love,
prepared ahead of me, the way home,
or my bed at night, so that almost
I should forgive you, who perhaps
foresaw the worst that I might do,
and forgave before I could act,
causing me to smile now, looking back,
to see how paltry was my worst,
compared to your forgiveness of it
already given. And this, then,
is the vision of that Heaven of which
we have heard, where those who love
each other have forgiven each other,
where, for that, the leaves are green,
the light a music in the air,
and all is unentangled,
and all is undismayed.
"To My Mother" by Wendell Berry, from Entries. Pantheon Books, 1994. |
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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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