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THE SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS
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The Feast of the Presentation/Candlemas
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: 2.4.11
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
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Janet, Doug Doller, Jack Seeman, Charles Drumm, Yasso Herath, Bob and Donna Weber, Thomas Humeston, Peggy Lehrecke, Bill and Catherine Lubeck, Elizabeth Uccellani, Michael Barraclough, Margaret, Mark Ciraldo, Carmen, Peter Lubeck, Corporal Ryan Deis, Marie, Phoebe Colwell, Anne Marie, Margaret Mary Teyan, Fred Teyan, Roberta Mathsen, Underwood Blaisdell REST IN PEACE: Samuel McKinstry FLOWER MEMORIALS Florence Campbell, Annette Gradnauer Lundgren Taplin, Elizabeth Carlile
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.
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COLLECT OF THE DAY Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by 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.
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I have heard of an experiment in meditation. For a certain number of days, some years ago, a group of people made a circle around the city of Washington and meditated continually. Gathered unknown to itself within this circle of loving kindness, Washington changed. The statistics for that period in the city showed a remarkable and unprecedented decrease in violence and crime. The power of intention to bless is not some utopian fantasy; it can be shown factually to effect concrete and transformative action.
We have no idea the effect we actually have on one another. This is where blessing can achieve so much. Blessing as powerful and positive intention can transform situations and people. The force of blessing must be even more powerful when we consider how the intention of blessing corresponds with the deepest desire of reality for creativity, healing, and wholesomeness. Blessing has pure agency because it animates on the deepest threshold between being and becoming; it mines the territories of memory to awaken and draw forth possibilities we cannot even begin to imagine!
From To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O'Donohue (New York: Doubleday, 2008).
Want to know more about the Feast of the Presentation/Candlemas, which we will mark this Sunday? CLICK HERE
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SUNDAY, February 6 - "Souper Bowl" Sunday 8:00am/9:30am/11:00am Holy Eucharist 10:10am ChurchSchool Classes PARISH FORUM: Intro to Annual Parish Meeting 10am - 12:30pm New Member Brunch (Rectory) 12:30pm "Sunday Short" Nature Walk (Moutainview Nature Park) 2:30pm Amazing Grace Circus rehearsal (Memorial)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus class (Memorial Hall)
7:00 Nursery School of the Nyacks board meeting (Patterson Hall)
TUESDAY, February 8
10:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus class (Memorial Hall)
7:00pm Boy Scouts (Memorial Hall)
8:00pm Choir
WEDNESDAY, February 9
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus class (Memorial Hall)
7:30pm Diversity Team meeting
THURSDAY, February 10
7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus class (Memorial Hall)
SATURDAY, February 12
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
AGC! Circus Cares event (Bradley Chapel)
7:30pm Oratamin Winter Social (Memorial Hall)
SUNDAY, February 13
8:00am & 10:00am Holy Eucharist
10:45 CHILDCARE
10:45 ANNUAL MEETING (Memorial Hall)
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)
6:30pm French Creole Mass 4:00pm Free Performance High School Chamber Orchestra
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PARISH FORUMS - between 9:30 and 11:00am services
Join us Sundays from 10:10 to 11:00am to learn more about our faith, our church, our diocese, and our communion.
Sunday, February 6 Everything You Need to Know for the Annual Meeting
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NYACK HIGH SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - FREE CONCERT
In March, The Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra will compete at the 2011 National Orchestra Festival in Kansas City. This is the third time the orchestra has been invited to compete at this prestigious festival. As they prepare, the Chamber Orchestra will perform their competition program twice for the Nyack community, including a free concert at Grace Church on Sunday, February 6 at 4:00pm. The program includes Mozart's Divertimento K. 136, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and works by Debussy and David Diamond. Another concert will be held on Sunday, March 6 at 7:00pm at The Nyack Library. Tickets for the Nyack Library performance can be purchased online at www.carnegieroom.org. Tickets are $25/$20 senior/$14 young adult (35/under), $5 child (12/under).
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THIS SUNDAY:
SUNDAY SHORTS An hour to energize your body and mind.
Join the Fellowship Commission for a short hike the first Sunday of every month. We will choose local parks, so you can be home in one hour. No rough terrain, just beautiful scenery and pleasant companions. We will pause briefly for silent reflection. This week we will go to Mountainview Nature Park. We will meet at 12:30 at the Strawberry Hill Lane parking lot, which you can reach via Rte. 303 in West Nyack. The entrance is opposite the Thruway Authority and behind the old Journal News Building. Hope to see you there! |
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THIS SUNDAY: "Souper Bowl" Sunday
It's not just the big game, it's our annual day to collect cans and cash donations in a special drive for People to People. We'll have collection baskets at all services for cans and $1 (or more!) to help stock People to People's shelves.
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CIRCUS CARES
This Valentine's weekend, Saturday February 12th, 6:00pm-9:30pm,
let Amazing Grace CIRCUS! care for your kids while you and your valentine enjoy an intimate dinner at a local Nyack restaurant! Relax and enjoy your evening knowing your child is having a great time juggling, walking the tight-wire, and tumbling under the instruction of circus professionals. $35 per child; $25 for each sibling. Ages 4 - 14. Fee includes a slice of pizza and a drink. Circus Cookies Bake Sale additional. Reservations necessary. Call 845-348-8740
or email carlo@amazinggracecircus.org. Discount coupons to local restaurants when you register.
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GRACE CHURCH ANNUAL PARISH MEETING
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2011 at 10:45am
Services will be 8:00am & 10:00am
This year the Annual Parish Meeting will again be structured to provide an opportunity for members to come together in small groups to discuss ministry and mission, as well as to gather in plenary for reports from the rector and wardens and to vote. To make it possible for the widest-possible attendance at the meeting, our Sunday services will be at 8:00 and 10:00am, with the meeting taking place at 10:45am. Please note that church school classes/childcare will take place and continue through 12:30pm so that parents and teachers can attend this important gathering.
In preparation for the meeting members will soon receive a letter inviting them to a specific table fellowship group led by a member of the vestry. In addition, the Parish Forum on February 6 will provide an introduction to the Annual Meeting and some of the issues and material to be discussed.
Please remember that while the Annual Meeting is open to all, only pledging members are eligible to vote. A list of those eligible to vote, minutes from the Annual Parish Meeting of 2010, and the report of the Nominating Committee will be posted at the entrance of the church beginning January 30, 2011.
It's not too late to pledge.
Can't find your pledge materials? The pledge card is available online (CLICK HERE); just print it out and mail to us, or place in the offertory plate on Sunday.There's also a very helpful Question & Answer sheet that answers many of the questions we receive concerning pledging, and, for those who would like to make their pledge payments via scheduled credit card payments or electronic bank debits (e-pledge), the authorization forms are also on line. |
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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Please remember to bring a non-perishable food item to church every Sunday for People to People. 121 West Nyack Rd. Nanuet NY 10954 845.623.4900. |
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Was it Light?
Was it light?
Was it light within?
Was it light within light?
Stillness becoming alive,
Yet still?
A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.
-Theodore Roethke 1908-1963
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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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