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The Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (6/24/12)
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: June 22, 2012
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Janet, Thomas Humeston, Bob and Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Al & Carol Lalli, Terri Caserto, Barbara Harris, Roy Barrows, Sergeant John Patrick Riffle, Ara Richard Parsekian, Marianna Quinn Parsekian, Elaine MacPhee, Bob Williams, Edward Stebbins, Tankert Mahler, Harte Mahler, Anne Huntington, Marie Haynie, Sue Lindsey, Mary Stierlen, Scott Weber, Heather Cornell
FLOWER MEMORIALS
Anna Flender, Helen Virginia Ackley, Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. Halliday. George T. Begbie, Bertram S. Warn, Loved Ones of Alma Williams, Ruth Gerhardt
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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READINGS
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COLLECT OF THE DAY
O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your lovingkindness; 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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| Miracles
By Wendell Berry
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine - which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry
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Friday, JUNE 22
7:30pm Gala Academy of Music Concert (for info:www.academyofmusicfestival.com/845-358-7445)
Sunday, JUNE 24 SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE BEGINS
Church Youth Service Mission Trip departure (returns July 7) 8:00 Holy Eucharist (Rite I; outside in Memorial Garden, weather permitting) 10:00am Holy Eucharist 7:00pm Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Outing (grounds open for picnics at 5:00pm)
Monday - Friday June 25 - 29 9:00am-4:00pm Amazing Grace Circus Camp (Memorial) Wednesday, JUNE 27 7:00am Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers (Bradley Chapel) Thursday, JUNE 28 7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall) Saturday, JUNE 30 AGC! Circus Cabaret |
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PLEASE NOTE OUR SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE:
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.
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PARKING ALERT
We've noticed some parking signs changing on the streets closest to Grace -- make sure to check the signs when you park to confirm you're legal!
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SHAKESPEARE ON SUNDAY
Lucky ticket holders for this Sunday's 7:00pm performance of Love's Labour's Lost can begin their picnics at 5:00pm, weather permitting, on the lovely grounds of Boscobel. As usual, parking is free and you pick up your play tickets at the table for group sales in the gift shop building. If arriving at 5:00pm, also get your picnic stickers to allow early access. Let's hope for fair skies on our fourteenth Fellowship outing!
Questions: contact Barbara Cross: Babcross@aol.com or 845-358-4599. |
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2012 CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP ("CYSM")
AND THEY'RE OFF!! Our intrepid band hits the road to the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning. 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, The Rev. Emily Sieracki
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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Summer is a no vacation for People to People. Church attendance and work schedules are altered and the amount of food collected is reduced. But our neighbors who depend on food donations from People to People still need support. You may not be in church every Sunday this summer but try to remember to bring non-perishable food for the Social Ministry basket in the narthex when you are there (bring a bit extra to make up for those missed Sundays).
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SUMMER REFRESHMENTS
"Coffee Hour" takes place following the 10:00am service, and -- weather permitting -- we'll soon be 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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THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVALCONCLUDES
Final Concert is tonight
Friday, June 22 at 7:30 PM Gala Concert Works by Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn
Korliss Uecker, soprano; Wendy Stern, flute; Bracha Malkin, Mikhail Kopelman, Sungrai Sohn, Mariya Polishchuk, Anat Malkin Almani, violin; Ekaterina Markova, viola; Julia Lichten, David Geber, cello; Cullan Bryant, piano/harpsichord
For more information and details on the programs, you can go to their website at www.academyofmusicfestival.com or call 845- 358-7445.
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Amazing Grace CIRCUS! Summer Day Camp - begins Monday
10TH YEAR AT GRACE!June 25 - August 10.
Big Top Camp 9:00am - 4:00pm-ages 7 - 14
Little Top Camp 9:00am - 12:30pm-ages 5 - 7.
SPECIAL NOTE: In honor of our 10th year in partnership with Grace Church, we will offer a 10% discount to any Grace Church member who brings their child(ren) to circus camp for at least a two-week session. Call Mr. Amazing at 845-348-8740 or go to our new website: www.amazinggracecircus.org for Registration Forms.
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| An Unclenched Moment
By Ted Loder
Gentle me,
Holy one,
into an unclenched moment,
a deep breath,
a letting go
of heavy experiences,
of shriveling anxieties,
of dead certainties,
that softened by the silence,
surrounded by the light,
and open to the mystery,
I may be found by wholeness,
upheld by the unfathomable,
entranced by the simple,
and filled with the joy
that is you.
From Guerrillas of Grace, Prayers for the Battle
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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.130 First Avenue.Nyack.New York.10960.845-358-1297
The Reverend Alon White, Interim Rector
The Reverend Emily Sieracki, Assistant to the Rector
Robert Barrows, Organist & Choirmaster
www.gracechurchnyack.org |
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