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The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE:7.2.10
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| PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS |
Janet, Doug Doller, Jack Seeman, Charles Drumm, Yasso Herath, Donna Weber, Deborah Federico, Theresa Caserto, Elizabeth, Nick DeRosa, Patrick Kelly, Kyle Warnall, Gina Lubeck, Thomas Humeston
REST IN PEACE: Joseph D'Errico, Dolores Gunter, William Ingram
FLOWER MEMORIALS Sylvia R. Jewett, Joseph L. Graham, Steve, Helen & Alexander Christos
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. |
READINGS
[Kudos to Rev. Dcn. K. Joanna Depue, and any other sharp-eyed readers who caught the fact that last week, both links led to the readings for Pentecost 6C. My apologies for any confusion.] |
COLLECT OF THE DAY
O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; 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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"The arm of the Lord is not shortened," and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from "the Declaration of Independence," the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated.-Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic are distinctly heard on the other. The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved.
The fiat of the Almighty, "Let there be Light," has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen in contrast with nature. Africa must rise and put on her yet unwoven garment. "Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God."
In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it:
God speed the year of jubilee The wide world o'er! When from their galling chains set free, Th' oppress'd shall vilely bend the knee, And wear the yoke of tyranny Like brutes no more. That year will come, and freedom's reign. To man his plundered rights again Restore. God speed the day when human blood Shall cease to flow! In every clime be understood, The claims of human brotherhood, And each return for evil, good, Not blow for blow; That day will come all feuds to end, And change into a faithful friend Each foe.
From Frederick Douglass' speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," delivered at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
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THIS WEEK
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Sunday, JULY 4
8:00 Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II, with music)
Monday, JULY 5
Grace Church Office is closed
AGC Circus Camp Continues 9:00am to 4:00pm weekdays
Wedneday, JULY 7
12:30pm Clericus (Patterson Hall)
Thursday, JULY 8
7:00pm Hopper House rain location
Saturday, JULY 10
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
Sunday, JULY 11
8:00 Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II, with music) |
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN - AND WOMEN
....to help restore the ground-level windows and other small carpentry tasks in MemorialGarden. If you are handy and have a few hours to give this summer, call Linda Chisholm 358-2683 or email lachisholm@verizon.net . |
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! Continues through 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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Unharvested
by Robert Frost
A scent of ripeness from over a wall.
And come to leave the routine road
And look for what had made me stall,
There sure enough was an apple tree
That had eased itself of its summer load,
And of all but its trivial foliage free,
Now breathed as light as a lady's fan.
For there had been an apple fall
As complete as the apple had given man.
The ground was one circle of solid red.
May something go always unharvested!
May much stay out of our stated plan,
Apples or something forgotten and left,
So smelling their sweetness would be no theft. |
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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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