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Reflection

By Evelyn Underhill

The leavening of yeast must have seemed to ancient men a profound mystery, and yet something on which they could always depend. Just so does the supernatural enter our natural life, working in the hiddenness, forcing the new life into every corner and making the dough expand.

If the dough were endowed with consciousness, it would not feel very comfortable while the yeast was working. Nor, as a rule, does our human nature feel very comfortable under the transforming action of God, steadily turning one kind of love into another kind of love--desire into charity, clutch into generosity, Eros into Agape.

Creation is change, and change is often painful and mysterious to us. Spiritual creation means a series of changes, which at last produce a Holiness, God's aim for us.

Evelyn Underhill in The School of Charity 

SUNDAY IS "SOUPER" BOWL SUNDAY - Bring a dollar and a can!

It's not just the big game, it's our annual day to collect cans and cash donations in a special drive for People to People. Members of the Senior Youth Group will be on hand at all services to collect your donations. The need is greater than ever -- help restock the shelves at People to People.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 AT 4:00PM
CHORAL EVENSONG

A light to enlighten the nations

Join the Grace Church Choir and clergy on the first Sunday of each month through May for the traditional Anglican service of prayer, music, and reflection. In February we mark The Feast of the Presentation with service music that includes "I sat down under his shadow"   (Bairstow); Preces & Responses (Morley),  Fourth Service Canticles (Batten) and  "O nata lux" (Tallis).

SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE DINNER

Indulge with us! The Grace Church Confirmation Class invites you to come celebrate with our parish family before the long season of Lent. Pancakes and syrup, bacon and coffee, orange juice and milk will be served up in Memorial Hall from 5:30-7:00pm on Tuesday, February 12.

ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES: February 13 at 8:00am/noon/8:00pm

Amazing Grace CIRCUS! presents their 3rd Annual  

WHEN: Thurs, February 14, 6 - 9:00pm (on Valentine's Day, of course)
WHERE:  Memorial Hall
WHAT WILL YOUR KIDS DO? They will join the circus for a fun-filled evening of juggling, clowning, tumbling and movies

And the deal gets sweeter!

Interfaith Symposium

The Abrahamic Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam- Session 3  

PLEASE JOIN US IN WORSHIP, LEARNING, AND SHARING

Friday, February 8, 2013 at 7:30pm,  

Temple Beth Torah, 330 N. Highland Ave. (Rte. 9W), Upper Nyack, NY

Join Rabbi Brian Beal and Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham as they lead a Learning Service, a combination of prayer and commentary, to help bring alive the meaning of each prayer and explain how the structure of a service takes us on a spiritual journey. Refreshments will be served. 

Organized by: Congregation Sons of Israel, First Immanuel Missionary Baptist Church, First Reform Church of Nyack, Grace Episcopal Church, Islamic Center of Rockland, St. Ann's Catholic Church, Temple Beth Torah   

This interfaith program was supported by the Men of Reform Judaism (MRJ) Congregational Interfaith Grant, made possible by funding from the Jewish Chautauqua Society, MRJ's interfaith education project.

HELPING HANDS - February 2013

After our coming January dates (1/26,27,28), Grace Church will next host approximately 25 homeless Rockland County residents on Saturday, February 16, Sunday, February 17, and Monday, February 18. We need volunteers to provide a breakfast for our guests on Sunday morning at @7:30. We also need volunteers to be overnight supervisors. You can bring a sleeping bag and pillow and spend the night on the comfortable couches in Patterson Hall. If you can help, please contact Charlie Cross cjcross3ny@yahoo.com, 358-4599; or sign up on the bulletin board in the Narthex

We're recruiting folks who are willing to be trained to serve at the family service as ushers, chalice bearers, acolytes, sub-deacons....If you are interested, please fill out one of the forms located at the entrance to the church and leave it in the office, put it in the collection plate with your offering or speak with Mother Alon or Evelyn Lombardi.

A hearty thank you to all who have pledged for 2013. We are nearing our goal of $320,000, but have a way to go. The vestry is working to finalize the 2013 budget for approval at the annual meeting, so if you are still intending to pledge please do so ASAP. If you need a pledge card, call the office. Or, if you want to expedite things, you may email the pledge secretary, Sally Ann Mock with your intentions @ samock34@aol.com. Remember, in order to vote at the annual meeting, you must have made a pledge for this year.

MISPLACED YOUR PLEDGE PACKET?  

Your Stewardship Committee: Jim Gilbert, chair

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