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Seventh Sunday of Pentecost - July 7, 2013  
Collect of the Day
O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one another with pure affection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

 

Readings

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Prayer List  
Bob and Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck,  Catherine Lubeck,  Al and Carol Lalli,  Teri Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston,  Barbara Harris, Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Harte Mahler, Anne Huntington, Marie Haynie, Tim Brady, Marie,  Ron & Pat Mapstone, Fran F., Jack Seeman, Evelyn, Tasha, Zell Schwartzman, Stephen Frey, Robert A., Audry,  Mary Catherine Nervegna,  Victoria, Lynn Lockwood, Ewan, Russ, Daniel Boyle, Karen Wright, Courtney Hoeneveld, Irma Carchi, Suzanne.


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. 

Reflection

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.

- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

This Week  

Are you on the worship ministry schedule this weekend? CLICK HERE 
to find out.   
 

MONDAY -  FRIDAY (through August 2)

9:00am - 4:00pm  Amazing Grace Circus Camp - Memorial Hall

 

SATURDAY, JULY 6   

6:00pm Amazing Grace Circus private event (Memorial Hall) 

  

SUNDAY, JULY 7    

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Memorial Garden, weather permitting)
10:00am Holy Eucharist  

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10

2:00pm  Memorial for E. Jane Broome

 

THURSDAY, JULY 11

7:30pm Rain Location, Hopper House Music in the Garden (info:edwardhopperhouse.org)

 

SUNDAY, JULY 14

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Memorial Garden, weather permitting) 

8:30am - 1:00pm Blood Drive (Memorial Hall)

10:00am Holy Eucharist & Baptism 

 

Announcements & Reminders 
REMINDER: WE'RE NOW ON THE SUMMER SERVICE SCHEDULE:

 

8:00am- Service (Rite I, in Garden, weather permitting) 

10:00am- Service (Rite II, with music) 

 

Mid-week 8:00am Holy Eucharist returns in the fall. 

BLOOD DRIVE AT GRACE CHURCH - SUNDAY, JULY 14
Grace Church we will have a blood drive for the NY Blood Center on Sunday, July 14 from 8:30am - 1:00pm in Memorial Hall. Summer is a particularly important time to give blood since there is often a shortage during these months.  To make an appointment, please call Claudia Uccellani at 845.642.0807 or email uccell@yahoo.com.  Walk-ins also welcome! 

SINGING IN THE SUMMER!

Interested in singing with the choir but are unsure of what it's all about?  

Want a chance to keep your musical skills sharp during the Dog Days?  Curious about the view from the Choir Loft?  If so, there are four remaining opportunities to sing with the Summer Choir between now and September: July 14, July 28, August 11, August 25 (the second and fourth Sundays of the month).  Rehearsals are the same day at 9:15am in the Choir Room.  The Summer Choir sits in the pews for the service and comes up to the organ (or over to the piano) at the offering.  It's a perfect opportunity for families & young adults to make music!  For more information, please contact Brandon Beachamp, Interim Organist & Choirmaster.

AGC! by Bill Batson
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TO CHECK OUT A GREAT BILL BATSON PIECE FEATURING AGC! 

 

BIG TOP CIRCUS SUMMER CAMP AT AMAZING GRACE CIRCUS!

Summer feeling endless?  Kids getting antsy?

Grace parishioners Carlo Pellegrini and Janet Hayes, who run Amazing Grace CIRCUS! and the Big Top Circus Camp, say there is always room for more kids! Camp is held right here in Grace's Memorial Hall, June 24 - August 2, in the safety, security, and  beauty of Grace's grounds.Camp is reasonably priced, too. Check out our website and register soon:www.amazinggracecircus.org.

Or call Mr. Amazing TODAY to reserve a place for your child.
845-348-8740. Every day is circus day!

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE ALWAYS NEEDS DONATIONS
With summer travel schedules kicking in, the shelves are practically bare over at People to People's food bank.  PLEASE, remember to bring your donations to church every week. Here's a link to more.

Keep in Touch 

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DIOCESE OF NEW YORK WEBSITE  CLICK HERE  
 
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CHURCH  CLICK HERE

EPISCOPAL CAFE  For daily Episcopal news/reflection/commentary CLICK HERE

ON FAITH conversations about faith and current events from all angles CLICK HERE
DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUR FACEBOOK GROUP
Click here  to go to our Facebook group page -- our cyber-bulletin board.  Join in the discussion and remember to share items that you find of interest -- pictures, links, etc --make or ask for book or movie recommendations, etc....     Not into Facebook?  Click here  to send an email and we'll post your note to the Grace Church Nyack page.  

Parting Thought 

God speaks to each of us as he makes us,

then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:


You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.

Embody me.

Flare up like flame

and make big shadows I can move in.


Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose me.


Nearby is the country they call life.

You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.

 

-from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God  by Rainer Maria Rilke 

Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy; Riverhead Books 

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