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Eighth Sunday of Pentecost - July 14, 2013  
Collect of the Day

O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

 

Readings

CLICK HERE to listen to sermons from previous weeks
CLICK HERE for Bible study resources.   

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, Brody, Miranda Pinckert


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

I would say about individuals, an individual dies when he ceases to be surprised.
I am surprised every morning that I see the sunshine again.
When I see an act of evil, I'm not accommodated.
I don't accommodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere; I'm still surprised.

That's why I'm against it, why I can hope against it. We must learn how to be surprised.
Not to adjust ourselves. I am the most maladjusted person in society.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

CLICK HERE for more about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel from an NPR "On Being" program entitled "The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel."
This Week  

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

SATURDAY, JULY 13     

10:00am  Midnight Run meal preparation (Memorial Hall) 

  

SUNDAY, JULY 14     

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

9:15am Summer Choir rehearsal  (Choir Room)

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

10:00am Holy Eucharist  (baptism; Summer Choir)  

 

MONDAY -  FRIDAY (through August 2)

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

 

TUESDAY, JULY 16 

 7:30pm  Vestry (Patterson Hall)

 

THURSDAY, JULY 18

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

 

SUNDAY, JULY 21 

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

10:00am Holy Eucharist  

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. 

SUMMER CHOIR THIS WEEKEND  

 

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: This Sunday, 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.

ADULT SPIRITUAL FORMATION BOOK GROUP MAKES FALL SELECTION
 

 

The Adult Spiritual Education and Formation Book Group recently voted to read this fascinating memoir of a near-death experience for its first meeting in September. New members are always welcome to join this informal group.  For information or to weigh in on meeting times, please contact group leader Jennifer Hausler at jhausler@optonline.net.

 

SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVING IS EASY 

All too easy to miss a pledge payment ....or two

 

Why Not Consider E-pledging?

Through the Diocese of New York, we participate in a program that makes it possible for pledge payments to be made to us automatically, via an electronic transfer from your bank account.  You determine payment schedule, and we both receive records of payments.   It's a win-win situation all around.  If you'd like information, look for brochure in the narthex, or  email us and we'd be happy to send it out to you.

PARISHIONER NEWS 

Do you have news you'd like to share with the parish family?  This is the place for it. 
PARISHIONER'S MUSICAL SCHEDULED
Vestry member Erik Johnke has a written the book and lyrics for
God's Country, a new musical opening in New York City next week.  Here are the details:

God's Country

Book and lyrics by Erik Johnke; Music by Elaine Chelton

 

It's 1871. Wealthy Englishman James Watson's world is shattered by his mother's death and the revelation that he is adopted and Irish. Discovering his birth mother lives in America, he travels there on an epic journey to find his true identity. Sweeping melodies with Irish flavor carry this dynamic tale.   

 

The Pershing Square Signature Center -   Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
480 West 42nd Street, NYC

Thursday, July 18  9:00pm
Sunday, July 21  1:00pm and 5:00pm
Tuesday, July 23   9:00pm
Wednesday, July 24  5:00pm

 

Tickets are $25

http://nymf.org/tickets/2013-events/gods-country/ 

 

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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Parting Thought 

Brotherhood

.....Homage to Claudius Ptolemy 

   

I am a man: little do I last

and the night is enormous.

But I look up:

The stars write.

Unknowing I understand:

I too am written,

and at this very moment

someone spells me out.

   

by Octavio Paz

   

from The Collected Poems 1957-1987;

Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1988

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