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Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost -August 25, 2013
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Collect of the Day
Grant, O merciful God, that your Church, being gathered together in unity by your Holy Spirit, may show forth your power among all peoples, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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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, Shirley Federico, Joseph Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston, Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Harte Mahler, Anne Huntington, Marie Haynie, Tim Brady, Marie, Pat Mapstone, Fran F., Jack Seeman, Evelyn, Zell Schwartzman, Daniel Boyle, Karen Wright, Courtney Hoeneveld, Irma Carchi, Suzanne, Brody, Miranda Pinckert, Bernadette Polizzi, Adele, Anne Szwejkowski, Orville Mann, Suzie Parker Devoe
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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Facing the Sacred Moments
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. ...
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon the share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1907-1972
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25
8:00am Holy Eucharist (Memorial Garden, weather permitting)
9:15am Summer Choir rehearsal
10:00am Holy Eucharist (Summer Choir) |
MO. ALON will be on vacation from August 16 - 31
On Sunday, August 25, we will be joined by The Rev. Suzanne Guthrie, a writer and retreat leader. She has served the church as parish priest, children's priest, and as a college (Vassar) and University (Cornell) chaplain. She is the author of Praying the Hours, and Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer and curates the weekly website Soulwork Toward Sunday: Self-Guided Retreat based upon the coming Sunday's Gospel lesson at http://www.EdgeOfEnclosure.org. Suzanne and her husband, Bill, live in Woodstock, New York.
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SUMMER CHOIR THIS WEEKEND - AUGUST 25
This is it -- your last chance for the summer! Don't miss this final opportunity to sing with the Summer Choir on Sunday, August 25. Rehearsal is 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.
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Announcements & Reminders
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LOOKING AHEAD TO SEPTEMBER
Sunday, September 8 - Return to 3 services; Mo. Alon's final services with us
8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I (returns to the church)
9:30am Holy Eucharist (Family Service)
Church School registration (Patterson Hall)
11:00am Choral Eucharist
Join us for a coffee hour farewell to Mo. Alon following the service
5:00pm Concert for Remembrance (free)
Sunday, September 15 - First services with our new rector, Fr. Owen C. Thompson
Join us for a special coffee hour to welcome Fr. Owen following the 11:00am service.
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Farewell to Mo. Alon
On Sunday, September 8 Mo. Alon will celebrate her last services with us as interim rector. Please join us to say farewell and thank you at a special coffee hour in her honor following the 11:00am service. Numerous parishioners have asked about a farewell gift: if you would like to contribute to a "purse" to be presented to her, checks may be made out to Grace Church with "gift for Mo. Alon" indicated on memo line. Contributions may be mailed/dropped off at the office, or placed in offering plate on Sundays.
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HELP WANTED:
With our fall schedule around the corner, we're looking for someone who can work Sunday mornings as our kitchen coordinator - making coffee, setting up/monitoring/cleaning up post-service coffee hours, and supporting the volunteers who bring refreshments and act as hosts. It is a paid position with hours of roughly 9:30am - 12:30pm. If you are interested in learning more, please contact the office: parishoffice@gracechurchnyack.org or 845-358-1297.
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TABLECLOTHS NEED ATTENTION
The kitchen has been cleaned, straightened, and inventoried for the fall, and we have a bag filled with tablecloths that need to be cleaned and folded to be ready for fall events. These are mostly the assorted floral "easy care" round clothes. If you can take a few home for attention, we'd be grateful! Stop by the office (M-TH 9-4, or let me know (845-358-1297/twoodcock@gracechurchnyack.org)when you want to stop by and I'll leave some in the kitchen for you.
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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.
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Great Music in a Great Space
GRACEMUSIC ANNOUNCES 2013 - 2014 SEASON
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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE NEEDS SCHOOL SUPPLIES
With the school year coming, People to People is making a special effort to collect school supplies: backpacks, 1-inch and 2-inch binders, highlighters, blue and black stick pens, #2 pencils and two-pocket folders.Donations of school supplies can be dropped off at PtoP's offices at 121 West Nyack Road, Nanuet, NY. Donation drop-off hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday.Remember as well that summer travel schedules are in play, and the shelves are practically bare over at People to People's food bank. PLEASE, remember to bring your donations to church every week.
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Look To This Day
Kalidasa
Look to this day
For it is the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
The verities and realities of your existence:
The glory of action,
The bliss of growth,
The splendour of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day
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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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