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The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: July 29, 2011
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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, Ann Ehrhart, Tasha, Jill F, Jim McClure, Pat Decker, Dolores Lentz, Peggy Lehrecke, Sue Lindsay, Jennifer Stay
REST IN PEACE: George Murphy, Bruce Ruffin (brother of parishioner Valerie Mathews).
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
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; 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 problem with miracles is that we tend to get mesmerized by them, focusing on God's responsibility and forgetting our own. Miracles let us off the hook. They appeal to the part of us that is all too happy to let God feed the crowd, save the world, do it all. We do not have what it takes, after all. What we have to offer is not enough to make any difference at all, so we hold back and wait for a miracle, looking after our own needs and looking for God to help those who cannot help themselves. . .
"They need not go away," Jesus says, "you give them something to eat." Not me but you; not my bread but yours; not sometime or somewhere else but right here and now. Stop looking for someone else to solve the problem and solve it yourselves. Stop waiting for food to fall from the sky and share what you have. Stop waiting for a miracle and participate in one instead.
From "The Problem with Miracles" in by Barbara Brown Taylor (Forward Movement Publications, 1990).
It is difficult to read this week's Gospel without thinking of the horror going on in Somalia and throughout the Horn of Africa right now.
CLICK HERE to read about Episcopal Relief and Development's efforts in the area.
Some other organizations that are helping in the area: The International Red Cross , Doctors Without Borders , Save the Children , World Food Programme ,
International Rescue Committee
Click here to read an encouraging story from another troubled area. |
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CALENDAR
Sunday, July 31
Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 10:00am (Baptisms)
6:30pm French Creole Mass
Monday, August 1
Amazing Grace Circus Camp continues
9:30 - 11:30am RPCC Toddler Program
Weekdays through August 13
Wednesday, August 3
10:00am Staff Meeting (Patterson Hall)
12:30pm Clericus
Thursday, August 4
9:30 - 11:30am RPCC Toddler Program
Friday, August 5
3:00pm AGC! Showcase of Talent
Saturday, August 6
10:00am Prinz baptism (MemorialGarden)
Sunday, August 7
8/10:00am (baptism) - Holy Eucharist
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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).
The 8:00am service will take place in Memorial Garden, weather permitting.
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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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AMAZING GRACE CIRCUS - LAST WEEKS! 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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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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| You don't believe
by William Blake
You don't believe - I won't attempt to make ye.
You are asleep - I won't attempt to wake ye.
Sleep on, sleep on, while in your pleasant dreams
Of reason you may drink of life's clear streams
Reason and Newton, they are quite two things,
For so the swallow and the sparrow sings.
Reason says 'Miracle', Newton says 'Doubt'.
Aye, that's the way to make all Nature out:
Doubt, doubt, and don't believe without experiment.
That is the very thing that Jesus meant
When he said: 'Only believe." Believe and try,
Try, try, and never mind the reason why.
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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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