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The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: July 8, 2011
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS |
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Janet, Doug Doller, Jack Seeman, Charles Drumm, Thomas Humeston, Bob and Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck , Catherine Lubeck, Al Lalli, Fred Hudson, Roberta Mathsen, Linda, Dave, Eloise, Raymond, Bill Owen, Missy Pinckert, Jane Colgan, Julia Lochner, Julia Marason, George Miller, Maurice Buckley, Ann Ehrhart, Tasha, Jill F, Jim McClure, Pat Decker, Dolores Lentz, Peggy Lehrecke, Sue Lindsay, Jennifer Stay REST IN PEACE: Loring Manley
REST IN PEACE: 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
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.
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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.
To listen to a wide variety of Episcopal "faith stories," CLICK HERE to open I AM EPISCOPALIAN. Be patient, it takes forever to load!
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THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO
By Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
From the preface to Leaves of Grass
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Saturday, July 9 10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall) Sunday, July 10 Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 10:00am 6:30pm French Creole Mass Sunday, July 17 Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 10:00am |
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PLEASE NOTE
We are now on our summer schedule
Services are at 8:00am (Rite I) and 10:00am (Rite II, music).
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Coffee Hour will take place following the 10:00am service. This week -- weather permitting -- we'll start serving punch outdoors. Your refreshment offerings -- cookies, brownies, tasty treats -- are always welcome -- and will be appreciated by all. Bring when the spirit so moves!
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LIVING IN GRACE DONORS Please take a moment to check the donor lists that can be found at this link and in the narthex. We want to be certain that names and spellings are listed accurately on the permanent plaque that will acknowledge donors to the Living in Grace campaign. If you find an error, please let us know by July 25. Thank you!
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CYSM TRIP UPDATE
Our Church Youth Service Mission Trip crew will return this weekend. Keep them in your prayers for safe and smooth travel! Participants are: Sadie Burns, Cynthia Dolinsky, Pascale Jean-Gilles, Fiona Lane, Allison Lovejoy, Dakota McCormick, Morgan Pullen, Kate O'Shea Cara Wanamaker, and adults Kickie Fulmor, Fr. Richard, Jerry Kieley, and Moriah Olsen. CLICK HERE to go to our Facebook group for some new pictures.
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AMAZING GRACE CIRCUS - SUMMER CAMP STILL HAS OPENINGS!
Circus Camp runs through August 12. Special Discount for Grace Church Kids -- 25% off the regular rate.
Big Top Circus Camp
Ages: 7 - 14 Hours: 9:00am til 4:00pm, Mon - Fri
Little Top Circus Camp
Ages: 5 - 7 9:00am til 12:00pm, Mon Fri
Call Carlo (aka Mr. Amazing) to register today!! 845-348-8740
Go to our website: www.amazinggracecircus.org
email: carlo@amazinggracecircus.org
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FROM THE FELLOWSHIP COMMISSION
TRAVELING TABLE
Bring a picnic dinner and join the Fellowship Commission for an evening of live jazz by a line up of internationally renowned musicians in the Hopper House Garden.
THURSDAY, JULY 28 at 7:00pm (the music starts at 7:30pm but if you want to get a spot, better to get there beforehand) Schedule to be announced.
yearofedwardhopper.com
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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE PLEA
People to People, our local food bank, is desperate for food donations. They have specifically requested the following items: cereal and oatmeal, canned vegetables & juices, chili, beef stew, individual servings fruit snacks, dry and canned soups & beans, mac & cheese boxes, flour, rice, sugar, tomato sauce and puree, tuna, mayo, oil, peanut butter, jelly and powdered milk. Please try to bring something with you whenever you come to church - there's a basket in the narthex for your donations. |
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"The Singing of Angels"
by Howard Thurman
There must be always,
remaining in every life,
someplace for
the singing of angels.
Someplace for that
which in itself
is breathless and beautiful.
Old burdens become lighter,
deep and ancient wounds
lose much of their old hurting.
Despite all the crassness of life,
all the hardness and harsh discords,
life is saved by
the singing of angels.
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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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