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The Twelfth Sunday After the Pentecost (8/19/12)
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WEEKLY UPDATE: August 17, 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, 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, Mary Lombardi, Ryan Weiss, Tim Brady, Beverly Motto, Shirley Federico, Steve and Susan Federico, Bill Owen, Charles Ghosio, Shirley Chalke
REST IN PEACE: Frank Seaman
There will be a memorial service for Frank at 2:00pm on Friday, September 14, with a reception to follow in Memorial Hall. Donations in his memory may be made to People to People, 121 West Nyack Road, Nanuet, NY 10954.
FLOWER MEMORIALS: Elizabeth York, Mary S. Ralli, Helen Essex
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
Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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I'm not sure where the idea came from that all of creation is God's body, but if we must have an analogy, it is not a bad one. When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then, instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged - I rejoice that I am part of it -- I, you, all of us - part of this glory. And so, when we go to the altar to receive the bread and wine, we are taking into our own bodies all of creation, all of the galaxies. And our total interdependence is an astounding glory. We are whatever we eat - junk foods, well-balanced meals, the books we ingest, the people we listen to - but most marvelously we are the eternally loving power of creativity. Does it sound incredible to say that when we receive Communion we are eating the entire universe? Of course it does, but it is also incredibly possible, and I rejoice in it.
Madeleine L'Engle
From Glimpses of Grace: Daily thoughts and Reflections Harper SanFrancisco
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Are you on the service ministry schedule this weekend? CLICK HERE to find out.
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Please note that Mo. Alon will be on vacation from August 20 through Labor Day. In case of pastoral emergency, please contact Mo. Emily.
Sunday, August 19
8/10:00am- Holy Eucharist
Monday, August 20
7:00pm RPCC Board Meeting (Patterson)
Tuesday, August 21
7:30pm Vestry (Patterson Hall)
Wednesday, August 22
7:00am Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers (Bradley Chapel)
Friday, August 24
4:00pm Wilkins/Nevill wedding rehearsal
Saturday, August 25
2:00pm Wilkins/Nevill wedding
Sunday, August 26
8/10:00am- Holy Eucharist
Wednesday, August 29
7:00am Holy Eucharist & Healing Prayers (Bradley Chapel)
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PLEASE NOTE OUR SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2:
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.
We will return to our full fall schedule (8/9:30/11:00am) on September 9.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT -- THE BOIL WATER BAN IN NYACK HAS BEEN LIFTED!
Our thanks to everyone for their patience and cooperation, and especially to Evelyn Lombardi and Jeanette Matthews for their generous gift of several cases of bottled water to help us and those using the church to get through our "dry spell."
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PLEDGES - A Gentle Reminder
Are your pledge payments up to date? Summer travel and much needed rejuvenation schedules make it easy to fall behind, but our ability to meet our expenses during the summer depends upon your continued generosity and consistency.
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DID YOU KNOW?
After the second service on Sundays, the altar flowers are distributed to people for a variety of reasons - from birthday celebrations or anniversaries, to those who have been ill or are suffering a bereavement. If you would like to suggest someone to receive flowers, please speak with Mo.Alon, Mo. Emily, or Sally Ann Mock on Sunday morning, or call the office during the week.
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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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Brilliant, this day-a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadows cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green-
whether it's ferns or lichen or needles
or impatient points of bud on spindly bushes-
greener than ever before.
And the way the conifers
hold new cones to the light for blessing,
a festive rite, and sing the oceanic chant the wind
transcribes for them!
A day that shines in the cold
like a first-prize brass band swinging along the street
of a coal-dusty village, wholly at odds
with the claims of reasonable gloom.
from This Great Unknowing. New Directions Publishing, 1999.
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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
www.gracechurchnyack.org |
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