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Palm Sunday - March 24, 2013
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Collect of the Day
Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
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Readings
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Bob and Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Al and Carol Lalli, Teri Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston, Barbara Harris, Elaine MacPhee, Bob Williams, Tankert Mahler, Harte Mahler, Anne Huntington, Marie Haynie, Tim Brady, Marie, Ron & Pat Mapstone, Fran F., Henry Austin, Jack Seeman, Evelyn, Andrew W., Tasha, Phil Bunton, Barbara DelPizzo, Zell Schwartzman, Stephen Frey, Robert A.
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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Jesus went to Jerusalem to announce the Good News to the people of that city. And Jesus knew that he was going to put a choice before them: Will you be my disciple, or will you be my executioner?
There is no middle ground here. Jesus went to Jerusalem to put people in a situation where they had to say yes or no. That is the great drama of Jesus' passion: He had to wait upon how people were going to respond.
Henri J. M. Nouwen, "A Spirituality of Waiting," The Weavings Reader
At supper with his friends, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, "Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me."
I scanned the headlines early this morning. A familiar name caught my eye: Duluth doesn't make the New York Times much. And certainly not for this reason: There was a mob lynching of three black men there in 1920. . . .
I remember asking my mother in the 1960s about racial prejudice in Minnesota when she was growing up. She didn't remember any. We didn't really have any Negroes there, she said. Well, I guess they had three. And then they had three fewer.
She was five when the lynching happened. Ten thousand people came out to see it. Men had broken into the city jail and hauled the three out. Men? My grandfather was a man and he lived in Duluth. Was he there? Did he go? Did my grandmother go, and did they watch? Did they take my mother? We didn't really have any Negroes there.. . .
My kind forebears. My good family. That good city, full of good people. Ordinary people. Impossible. But anything is possible for ordinary people. Any goodness, and any evil. They can allow themselves to be led either way. They can visit the church and the killing fields on the same day. They tell themselves that it is their leaders who take them astray, but they are the ones who raise up the leaders, and they are the ones who follow them.
So who killed Christ? Ordinary people. Like you and me. It is not enough to bemoan this evil age. I do not control this age. But I do control myself. Start there.
From Let Us Bless the Lord, Year One: Meditations on the Daily Office, Vol. 1, Advent through Holy Week by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton. Morehouse Publishing
Throughout Holy Week the Episcopal Church will broadcast services from across the country. You can access the page and see service details here.
for the Presiding Bishop's Easter message.
Finally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was enthroned yesterday, March 21. For video highlights and other interesting background, click here.
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CALENDAR
Friday, March 22- Church Office is Closed
2:00 - 4:00pm - RPCC Toddler Group - Classrooms
3:30pm - 6:00pm - AGC Circus School - Memorial Hall
Saturday, March 23
9:30am Rehearsal for 9:30am Easter Sunday service
10:00am Stripping of Palms/brass cleaning
10:30am Rehearsal for Easter Vigil
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HOLY WEEK
Sunday, March 24 - PALM SUNDAY
8:00am - Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9:30am - Holy Eucharist - The Path of Christ
11:00am - Holy Eucharist
Monday, March 25, Tuesday, March 26, Wednesday, March 27
8:00am - Holy Eucharist
Thursday, March 28 - Maundy Thursday
8:00pm - Proper Liturgy & Annointing
Friday, March 29- Good Friday
8:00am - Mass of the Pre-Sanctified (Bradley Chapel)
12:00pm - Proper Liturgy & Veneration of the Cross
8:00pm - Proper Liturgy & Veneration of the Cross
Saturday, March 30-Holy Saturday
8:00pm Easter Vigil
Sunday, March 31-Easter Sunday
8:00am - Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9:30am - Holy Eucharist (Parish Choir, Youth Choirs)
11:00am - Holy Eucharist (Senior Choir)
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EASTER VIGIL RECEPTION
The Fellowship Commission will once again host a celebratory reception immediately following the Easter Vigil on Saturday, March 30. If you can help by bringing something sweet or savory to share, please email Kris Burns.
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The Place Where We Are Right
by Yehuda Amichai
From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.
The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard. But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined House once stood.
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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
130 First Avenue.Nyack.New York.10960.845-358-1297
The Reverend Alon White, Interim Rector
Brandon Beachamp, Interim Organist and Choirmaster
www.gracechurchnyack.org |
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