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The Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE:6.25.10
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Janet, Doug Doller, Jack Seeman, Lisa Hill Byrne, Susan, Charles Drumm, Ray Mac Kenzie, Gloria Clarke, Lorraine, Greg Rosner, Dale Hunter Brunken, Ellie, Ruth Ingram, Carol, Carmen Darbouze, Yasso Herath, Donna Weber, Deborah Federico, Theresa Caserto, Joseph D'Errico, Kyle Warnall, Elizabeth, Nick DeRosa, Patrick Kelly, Kyle Warnall, Dolores Gunter
The prayer 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. |
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; 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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Love the One I cannot know
Now you say, "How shall I proceed to think of God as he is in himself?" To this I can only reply, "I do not know." With this question you bring me into the very darkness and cloud of unknowing that I want you to enter. A man may know completely and ponder thoroughly every created thing and its works, yes, and God's works, too, but not God himself. Thought cannot comprehend God. And so, I prefer to abandon all I can know, choosing rather to love him whom I cannot know. Though we cannot know him we can love him. By love he may be touched and embraced, never by thought. Of course, we do well at times to ponder God's majesty or kindness for the insight these meditations may bring. But in the real contemplative work you must set all this aside and cover it over with a cloud of forgetting. Then let your loving desire, gracious and devout, step bravely and joyfully beyond it and reach out to pierce the darkness above.
-The Cloud of Unknowing 14th century trans. William Johnston |
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THIS WEEK
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CYSM trip departure
8:00 Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II, with music)
6:30pm French/Creole Mass
6:00pm Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Outing
(grounds open for picnics at 4:00pm)
7:30pm Academy of Music Festival Concert
Monday, JUNE 28 - August 13
Amazing Grace Circus Camp - Weekdays 9:00am-4:00pm Tuesday, JUNE 2910:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
8:00 Holy Eucharist (Rite I) 10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II, with music)
Monday, JULY 5
Grace Church Office is closed |
GOOD NEWS!
We have one extra ticket for this Sunday's 6 pm performance of The Taming of the Shrew. Cost is $32 and you can also picnic on the great lawn beginning at 4 pm, weather permitting. Contact Barbara Cross: babcross@aol.com Do not call her home phone as she is out of town. |
ROCKLAND PARENT CHILD CENTER UPDATE
RPCC will be moving from 137 First Avenue to a much smaller office in Nyack at the end of the month. CLICK HERE for their letter explaining the move and upcoming plans. |
CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP ("CYSM") TAKES OFF ON SUNDAY
Our intrepid travelers depart well before the crack of dawn on Sunday. Please keep them in your prayers until their safe return in July: Katya Anger, Nicholas Baere, Abigail Bell, Sadie Mae Burns, Caitlin Cummings, Benjamin DiRocco, Keegan Fletcher, Claire Greenwood, Christian Hahn, Jocelyn Hahn, William Kyle, Claire Masters, Jonathan McNeill, Brianna Nelson, Morgan Pullen, Nawaphon Sittisawassakul, Dylan Sydor, Cassius Wilkinson Adults: Gregory A. Birchett, Charles Cross, Moriah Olsen, Emily Sieracki |
SUMMER CIRCUS CAMP - IT'S NOT TOO LATE!!!
Hey Kids! Circus Camp is back this Summer! 9th Exciting Summer! Amazing Grace CIRCUS! presents Big Top and Little Top Circus Summer Day Camp at Grace Church! Starts June 28 - August 13 in Memorial Hall, 9:00am - 4:00pm. Learn all circus skills including trapeze, silks, tightwire, clowning and acrobatics in a safe, fun, learning environment. Contact Mr. Amazing (aka, Carlo Pellegrini), 845-348-8740 or carlo@amazinggracecircus.org for all the details. |
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Jesus visits Peter at the Pearly Gates and asks how things are going.
"Well," says St. Peter, "I have a complaint. You know, Lord, I'm scrupulous about my job here. I interview each soul arriving at the Gate of Heaven, and I check to see if his or her name is written in the Book of Life. I turn away the people not worthy to enter heaven, but a little while later I turn around and I see those very people wandering around on the inside! I don't get it! What's going on?"
"Oh. That's my mother for you," replied Jesus. "Those people you turn away - she keeps letting them in through the back door."
- old joke |
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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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