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THE SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS |
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The Eighth Sunday After The Epiphany
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: 2.25.11 |
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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, Peter Lubeck, Corporal Ryan Deis, Marie, Phoebe Colwell, Anne Marie, Margaret Mary Teyan, Fred Teyan, Roberta Mathsen, Underwood Blaisdell, Al Lalli REST IN PEACE: Karen Krueger FLOWER MEMORIALS Nevin & Kathleen Sayre 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
Most loving Father, whose will it is for us to give thanks for all things, to fear nothing but the loss of you, and to cast all our care on you who care for us: Preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties, that no clouds of this mortal life may hide from us the light of that love which is immortal, and which you have manifested to us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Literature, painting, music - the most basic lesson that all art teaches us is to stop, look, and listen to life on this planet, including our own lives, as a vastly richer, deeper, more mysterious business than most of the time it ever occurs to us to suspect as we bumble along from day to day on automatic pilot. In a world that for the most part steers clear of the whole idea of holiness, art is one of the few places left where we can speak to each other of holy things.
Is it too much to say that to stop, look, and listen is also the most basic lesson that the Judeo-Christian tradition teaches us? Listen to us, is the cry of the ancient prophets of Israel. Listen to the social injustice, says Amos; to head-in-the-sand religiosity, says Jeremiah; to international treacheries and power plays says Isaiah; because it is precisely through them that God speaks his word of judgment and command.
And when Jesus comes along saying that the greatest command of all is to love God and to love our neighbor, he too is asking us to pay attention. If we are to love God, we must first stop, look, and listen for him in what is happening around us and inside us. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces, but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
In a letter to a friend Emily Dickinson wrote that, "Consider the lilies of the field" was the only commandment she never broke. She could have done a lot worse. Consider the lilies. It is the sine qua non of art and religion both.
Beyond Words: Daily Readings in The ABC's of Faith |
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SUNDAY, February 27
8:00am/9:30am/11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10am Church School Classes
PARISH FORUM: Introduction to Lent
6:30pm Senior Youth Group
TUESDAY, March 1
10:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus (Memorial Hall)
7:00pm Boy Scouts/Diversity Training Event (Memorial Hall)
8:00pm Choir
WEDNESDAY, March 2
12:30pm Clericus (Patterson Hall)
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus (Memorial Hall)
7:00pm Confirmation Class (Patterson Hall)
7:30pm ASF Book Group (Bradley Chapel)
THURSDAY, March 3
4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus (Memorial Hall)
SATURDAY, March 5
Vestry Retreat - Offsite
SUNDAY, March 6
8:00am/9:30am 11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10 Church School Classes
10:10am PARISH FORUM: Season of Preparation
2:30pm AGC! Rehearsal (Memorial Hall)
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room) |
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DIVERSITY WORKSHOP FOR 6th-8th GRADE STUDENTS
Tuesday, March 1 from 7-8:00pm in Memorial Hall
Parents and kids are invited to attend this powerful workshop that will get kids talking and participating in exercises focusing on bullying, slurs, and how to be an ally. This training will be extremely vivid and meaningful, and will dramatize the importance of how being an ally could actually save a life. For more information, contact Church School Coordinator, Jennifer Marraccino |
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ADULT SPIRITUAL FORMATION BOOK GROUP MEETS THIS WEDNESDAY
The ASF Book Group will be reading two short stories by J.F. Powers for our next meeting, which will take place on March 2 at 7:30pm at the church. The stories are "Lions, Harts, Leaping Does" and "Zeal" and they're available in this collection, The Stories of J.F. Powers. The book will be available at Barnes & Noble in the Palisades Mall, and several copies of the stories are available in the church narthex. As always, we're glad to have new members join!
Claudia Uccellani & Jennifer Hausler
Co Chairs, Adult Spiritual Formation Commission |
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SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER
"Ten pancakes cooked on the smoking griddle, and as fast as they were done Mother added another pancake to each stack and buttered it lavishly and covered it with maple sugar. Butter and sugar melted together and soaked the fluffy pancakes and dripped all down their crisp edges." ~from Farmer Boy
Indulge with us! The Grace Church Confirmation Class invites you to come celebrate with our parish family before the long season of Lent. Pancakes and syrup, bacon and coffee, orange juice and milk will be served up in Memorial Hall from 5:30-7pm on Tuesday, March 8. Kids activities too so bring the family! |
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ASH WEDNESDAY - March 9 Services at 7:30am/Noon/8:00pm |
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 GRACE MUSIC PRESENTS: Euphonique Saxophone Quartet
Sunday, March 13 at 4:00pm
Members of this lively, Brooklyn-based group have played with jazz greats Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Marion McPartland, Lou Rawls, and have composed for the Bang-on-a-Can All Stars. They do classical too - fresh transcriptions of Bach, Glazounov, and Piazzolla, plus new works written specially for the ensemble by great cutting edge composers. A swinging, diverting afternoon! Admission $15, Seniors $10, Students $5 Meet-the-artists reception follows concert; tickets available at the door. |
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SAVE THE DATES
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS IN LENT
ADULT SPIRITUAL FORMATION PRESENTS 2011 LENTEN PROGRAM:
God Whispers to You, God Shouts to Me: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path
Wednesdays, March 16, 23, 30 and April 6
6:15 - 7:00 Light Supper
7:-00- 8:00 Program and Discussion
8:00 - 8:30 Music, Prayer and Meditation
(Children are welcome. A concurrent children's activity will be provided.)
Using the ever popular Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator, we'll venture to discover our individual personality types and explore how our personality affects our relationships with God and our community. In addition to taking the type indicator assessment, psychotherapist Dr. Laurie Ferguson, former pastor of Palisades Presbyterian Church, will help us determine what the results mean, and we'll find out how being in touch with our personality can help guide each of us to spiritual activities that are most fulfilling. In later sessions, we'll explore how prayer, music, journaling,communion with nature and other exercises might help us - and those who are different than us - expand and deepen spiritual and religious practice, both internally and externally. Please let us know if you plan to attend (#of adults/children) -- CLICK HERE to send an email.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Have a little time to do some shopping or a favorite dish you'd like to share? Teams currently forming to prepare simple meals for the Lenten programs on March 23, March 30 and April 6. Please contact Claudia Uccellani at uccell@yahoo.com or at 642.0807 if you can help out. Thanks!
Claudia Uccellani & Jennifer Hausler
Co Chairs, Adult Spiritual Formation Commission |
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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quoted in To See the World in a Grain of Sand edited by Caesar Johnson
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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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