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The Eleventh Sunday After the Pentecost (8/28/11)
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: August 26, 2011
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS |
Janet, Doug Doller, J Charles Drumm, Thomas Humeston, Bob and Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck , Catherine Lubeck, Al Lalli, Fred Hudson, Roberta Mathsen, Dave, Eloise, Raymond, Bill Owen, Jane Colgan, Julia Lochner, Julia Marason, Ann Ehrhart, Tasha, Jill F, Jim McClure, Pat Decker, Dolores Lentz, Peggy Lehrecke, Sue Lindsay, JoAnn Winter, James Case, Kim Cross
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
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; 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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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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When the American novelist, Henry James, was saying goodbye once to his young nephew Billy, his brother William's son, he said something that the boy never forgot. Of all the things he might have said, what the old novelist did say was this, "There are three things that are important in human life - the first, is to be kind; the second, is to be kind; the third, is to be kind."
Be kind, because though kindness isn't the same thing as holiness, kindness is next to holiness. It is the door that holiness often enters the world through, enters us through. Not just gently kind, but sometimes fiercely kind. Be kind enough to yourselves, not just to play it safe with your life for your own sakes, but to spend at least part of your lives like drunken sailors, for God's sake, if you believe in God - or, for the world's sake, if you believe in the world. And that's to come alive truly. Be kind enough to others, to listen beneath the words they speak for that usually unspoken hunger for holiness that I think is part of all of us, because by listening to it and cherishing it, maybe we can help bring it to birth, both in mammon and ourselves.
Frederick Buechner in "What It Means to Grow Up" Program #2901
First air date September 29, 1985 30GoodMinutes.org
30 Good Minutes is a weekly multifaith program on WTTW 11 (PBS) in Chicago, featuring inspirational videos and text from America's finest religious thinkers, stories of personal faith, and reflections on spiritual topics. The website has an extensive program archives with a wealth of resources.
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Are you on the service ministry schedule this weekend? CLICK HERE to find out.
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Sunday, August 28
8/10:00am - Holy Eucharist
6:30pm French Creole Mass
Wednesday, August 31
Staff meeting (Patterson Hall)
SOME SEPTEMBER DATES TO SAVE Saturday, September 10 5:00pm Solemn Evensong in Commemoration of the Victims of 9/11 Sunday, September 11 8/9:30/11:00am Return to regular Sunday service schedule; Church School registration following 9:30am service 2:00pm The Nyack Clergy Association will mark the anniversary of the 2001 September 11 attacks with a brief interfaith service in VeteransPark, Nyack. If you would like to participate in the service by reading a portion of the list of victims' names, please contact Fr. Richard (358-1297/rgressle@gracechurchnyack.org) Thursday, September 15 7:30pm Adult Spiritual Formation Book Club reconvenes (third Thursdays) - Newcomers always welcome! Sunday, September 18 Throughout the morning: Ministry Fair Church School classes begin
4:00pm Concert of Remembrance (free) |
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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.
OUR FULL SUNDAY SCHEDULE (8/9:30/11am) resumes on September 11
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Coffee Hour takes place following the 10:00am service. Weather permitting, we'll be serving punch outdoors, but will move indoors to Memorial Hall if necessary. 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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We may all try to deny it for just a bit longer, but September is just around the corner. Please note the September items on the calendar above! Items for the September issue of the Messenger are being gathered now -- if you have material or announcements to be included, please let me know.
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Curious about the path of Hurricane Irene? Click here to see her progress.
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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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"Every morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and to give back." ~ Dag Hammarskjold |
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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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