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The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE:7.9.10
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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, Ellie REST IN PEACE: Taj Sisco Jamaal, Elizabeth Mulbah Butler, George P. Butler
FLOWER MEMORIALS: Ann DeGroat, LeRoy Docherty, Ester (Hettie) Taylor
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. |
COLLECT OF THE DAY
O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
CLICK HERE to visit the Episcopal Church's weekly Bible study website. You'll find all the readings along with background and commentary, and there's an opportunity to add your own comments as well. |
"When Jesus said love your neighbour, a lawyer who was present asked him to clarify what he meant by neighbour. He wanted a legal definition he could refer to in case the question of loving one ever happened to come up. He presumably wanted something of the order of "A neighbour (hereinafter referred to as the party of the first part) is to be construed as meaning a person of Jewish descent whose legal residence is within a radius of no more than three statute miles from one's own legal residence unless there is another person of Jewish descent (hereinafter referred to as the party of the second part) living closer to the party of the first part than one is oneself, in which case the party of the second part is to be construed as the neighbour to the party of the first part and one is oneself relieved of all responsibility of any sort of kind whatsoever.
Instead Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan, the point of which seems to be that your neighbour is to be construed as meaning anybody who needs you."
(Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking. A Theological ABC (San Francisco: Harper, 1973) |
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THIS WEEK
CLICK HERE TO SEE IF YOU'RE ON THE SERVICE MINISTRY SCHEDULE
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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)
Tuesday, July 13
Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall) Thursday, July 15
7:00pm Rain Location - Hopper House event Sunday, July 18
Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 10:00am
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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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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first time or last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with joy.
- Betty Smith in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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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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