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REFLECTION

The Parable of the Spoons  

Traditional 

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord,
I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like."

The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the
holy man looked in.

In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the
table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy
man's mouth water.

The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to
be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found
it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because
the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back
into their mouths.

The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord
said, "You have seen Hell."

They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as
the first one.

There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the
holy man's mouth water.

The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the
people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man
said, "I don't understand."

It is simple" said the Lord, "it requires but one skill. You see, they have
learned to feed each other.

Friday, JUNE 8

7:00pm Palisades Opera: Don Giovanni

(for info: www.palisadesopera.org/203-915-2478)

Saturday, JUNE 9

10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)

Sunday JUNE 10 -Last Church School

8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist

10:10 Church School classes &  Picnic (Memorial Garden)

10:10am Graceful Friends Breakfast - (Memorial Hall)

[Later, stop by the Graceful Friends Table at Gay Pride Rockland,

Noon-5:00pm, Riverspace Parking Lot, Nyack.]

2:30pm AGC rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

7:30pm Nyack Academy of Music Festival Concert

(for info:www.academyofmusicfestival.com/845-358-7445)

Tuesday, JUNE 12

10:00am Staff Meeting (Rector's Office)

7:00pm Boy Scouts (Memorial Hall)

Wednesday, JUNE 13

7:00am Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers (Bradley Chapel)

7:30pm Adult Spiritual Formation Book Group

7:30pm Academy of Music Festival Concert

(for info:www.academyofmusicfestival.com/845-358-7445)

Thursday, JUNE 14

7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)

8:30 Wardens (Rector's Office)

Friday, JUNE 15

8:30-1:00pm Nursery School of the Nyacks End of Year

events (Memorial/Patterson)

Saturday, JUNE 16

7:30pm Academy of Music Concert

(for info:www.academyofmusicfestival.com/845-358-7445)

Sunday JUNE 17

8/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist

12:00pm Coffee Hour farewell to Robert Barrows

3:00pm Wyman student rehearsal (church)

2:30pm AGC rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

7:30pm Nyack Academy of Music Festival Concert

(for info:www.academyofmusicfestival.com/845-358-7445)

PARISH FORUMS- between 9:30 and 11:00am services

Join us from 10:10 to 11:00am to learn more about our faith, our church, our diocese, and our communion.

Sunday, June 10   Church School BBQ/Graceful Friends Breakfast

CHURCH SCHOOL BBQ - After Church School classes 

On June 10 we will recognize our volunteer church school teachers for their hard work throughout the year. We'll celebrate with a BBQ in Memorial Garden following church school classes. We'll provide the hamburgers and hot dogs - please bring a side dishes or dessert to share. We have had a great year thanks to the dedication, creativity, and hard work of all of our teachers: Sarah Nittoli, Beth Paskowski, and Bonnie Parsekian (Pre-K 4's/Kindergarten/1st grade); Linda DeJesus, Lainie Murrell, and Annie Weiss (2nd /3rd grade); Cathy Friesen, Linda Rothschild, and Kathy Sestak (4th/5th grade); Kim Hamilton, Erik Johnke, and Steve Wilson (Junior Youth Group), Moriah Olsen (Senior Youth Group); Bonnie Parsekian (Joyful Noise Gospel Choir); Maija Kupris (St. Cecilia Choir). Jennifer Marraccino

 

GRACEFUL FRIENDS BREAKFAST

Graceful Friends, the Gay Straight Alliance of Grace Church, will host our 2nd Annual Celebratory Breakfast on Sunday, June 10 from 10:10 AM to 10:50am.    ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND. Also, on June 10,   please consider a visit to the GAY PRIDE ROCKLAND event (providing activities and entertainment for all ages ) in the Riverspace parking lot off Main Street in Nyack from noon to 5:00pm.    Grace Church will be present at this event to stand as an outward sign that this congregation is a  welcoming community of believers working to uphold our Baptismal covenant to seek and serve Christ in all persons. You are invited to stop by our table. See Evelyn if you wish help.  Evelyn Lombardi 

NEXT SUNDAY, JUNE 17

Robert Barrows, our organist and choirmaster since 1999, is retiring this year. His last service with us will be at 11:00am next Sunday, when we will also say farewell to the senior choir for the summer. Please join us for the service and to greet Bob at the coffee hour following the service.

SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE BEGINS ON JUNE 24

Holy Eucharist at 8:00am (Rite I) and 10:00am (Rite II, music)

Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers will continue Wednesdays at 7:00am in Bradley Chapel.

2012 CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP ("CYSM")

This summer's mission trip to the Dominican Republic begins on June 24. Thank you to everyone who has participated in our fundraising events, through which we have raised approximately $4,600. The cost of flights has increased significantly this year and we still need your help! If you would like to support our efforts in the Dominican Republic, you'll find bright yellow offering envelopes in the narthex. We also welcome donations of items we will bring with us: work gloves, uninflated soccer balls, crayons, Spanish language children's books, construction paper, bubbles. You may drop items at the office during the week, or in the box you'll find in the narthex.   Moriah Olsen

Please keep all of CYSM participants in your prayers as they begin their final trip preparations and until their safe return on July 7: Sadie Burns, Sonia Cisneros, Thea Dery, Cynthia Dolinsky, Barron Devoe, Ben DiRocco, Emma Foti, Ryan Frissina, Maggie Kyle, Allison Lovejoy, Brianna Nelson, Kate O'Shea, Molly Prouty, Leo Stillwell and their adult leaders: Charlie Cross, Moriah Olsen, Emily Sieracki

FINAL CALL FOR LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST TICKET PAYMENTS:  If you have reserved tickets for the June 24th, 7:00pm performance of Love's Labour's Lost and not yet paid, please do so ASAP. As usual, you will pick up your tickets at the table for group sales in the gift shop building at Boscobel on the day of the performance. Don't forget the curtain goes up @ 7:00pm, an hour later than previous years, so picnicking can begin on the grand lawn of Boscobel @ 5:00pm. We have 29 Grace Church friends and family attending for our 14th year of fun, rain or shine. Here's to another enjoyable evening!  

Questions: contact Barbara Cross: Babcross@aol.com or 845-358-4599.  

BOOK GROUP MEETING

The Adult Spiritual Formation Book Group will meet at 7:30pm at the church on Wednesday, June 13.  We'll be discussing chapters two and three (dealing with love and work) of "The Happiness Project,"  by Gretchen Rubin, but our main activity will be choosing a summer book. New (and returning) members welcome! Please bring your suggestions.                      Jennifer Hausler

SOUP ANGELS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS - GRACE TEAM FORMING

Soup Angels, a local soup kitchen operating out of First Reformed Church in Nyack, is looking for new volunteers. In response to the steadily increasing need right here in our own community, they have recently added an additional night of service. If you are available either Monday or Wednesday between 4-7:00pm and would like to join a team of fellow Grace Church parishioners on a regular - or not so regular - rotation (perhaps every 6-8 weeks), please be in touch with Charlie Cross ( CORjjc@aol.com) or the office (358-1297.)

KEEP IN TOUCH

PARTING THOUGHT 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi

The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, 1995.

 CLICK HERE to listen to an NPR piece the 13th century Persian poet Rumi, and  HERE for a Krista Tippett "On Being" segment about the