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The Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost  - October 27, 2013  
Collect of the Day

 

Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; 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 & Donna Weber, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck,  Teri Caserto, Shirley Federico, Joseph Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston,  Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Marie Haynie, Pat Mapstone, Jack Seeman, Evelyn,  Zell Schwartzman, Irma Carchi, Courtney Hoenveld, Brody, Miranda Pinckert, Bernadette Polizzi, Adele, Anne Szwejkowski, Susan Northcutt, Esther Lebron, Kickie Fulmor, Steven, Robert A, Miriam, Fran F, Clinton Taplin, Steven Valvo, Daniel Boyle, Dominique Rhoklin, Ewan, Claire, Fred Teyan, John Gilbert, Roberta Mathsen
REST IN PEACE: Stefan Vujevic

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
Two excerpts from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

  

If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.  After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness...The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes.  But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. 

  

The creator goes off on one wild, specific tangent after another, or millions simultaneously, with an exuberance that would seem to be unwarranted, and with an abandoned energy sprung from an unfathomable font.  What is going on here?  The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork -- for it doesn't, particularly, not even inside the goldfish bowl -- but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, fringed tangle.  Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz. 

  

- from  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek  by Annie Dillard. Harper & Row (1974)

    

And what better place to experience that pizzazz than walking through the woods of Harriman Park on the FALL PARISH HIKE this Sunday afternoon?  You'll find all the details below.  

This Week  

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26

Haunted House to benefit Church Youth Service Mission Trip (After Nyack parade)

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

8:00/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist

2:00pm AGC! Youth Troupe rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

2:00pm Parish Hike (Meet at St. John's in the Wilderness)

 

MONDAY - FRIDAY  8:30am Nursery School of the Nyacks (Classrooms)

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY  4:30pm AGC! CircusSchool

  

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

6:00pm Junior Youth Group Nightwatch

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

7:30pm Harvest Gala

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - ALL SAINTS SUNDAY 

8:00/9:30/11:00am Holy Eucharist

2:00pm AGC! Youth Troupe rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

4:00pm First at Four - Choral Evensong

 


 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27: ANNUAL PARISH HIKE  

 

Plan to bring the whole family - even sociable canines - for our 47th annual parish hike, led by Win & Tom Perry.  We'll meet at 2:00pm at the barn at St. John's-in-the-Wilderness, take a short drive to a trailhead, and enjoy an easy walk through the woods of Harriman Park. We'll return to the cozy barn for a potluck supper in front of the big stone fireplace -- this year we'll even have running water and working facilities.


Plan to bring something to share for supper.  Directions to St. John's available here. If you have questions, call Win at 845-358-0552.

JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP NIGHTWATCH

The much anticipated annual Junior Youth Group Nightwatch will take place next Friday, November 1,  from 6-11:00pm Participants will enjoy Chinese food, ice cream sundae making, a scavenger hunt, instruction in circus performance and drumming! Please contact Lainie Murrell, Church School Coordinator (845-825-6236 / gracekidsnyack@gmail.com)with any questions.

Announcements  

ALL SAINTS OFFERING

Memorial names will be read at the 8:00am & 11:00am services next Sunday, November 3.  The All Saints offering will again benefit the St. Benedict fund, which offers very modest emergency aid to those in pressing need.  Envelopes are available in the back of the church.  You may return the envelope to in the plate on Sunday or to the office during the week - please make sure that we have your names by Thursday, October 31. You are also invited to bring a small photo or token of departed loved ones to be placed in the church windows on Sunday, so we have a visual reminder that we are surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses as we celebrate the Feast of All the Saints.

NEXT WEEK: FIRST AT FOUR

We're excited to continue our monthly services of Choral Evensong this season.  On the first Sunday of the month at 4:00pm, the Grace Choir leads the traditional Anglican service of sung evening prayer with hymns, canticles, and anthems.   Rooted in the monastic tradition, Evensong is a unique offering of the Episcopal Church.  Across the world, people revel in the service's simplicity, beauty, and stillness at the close of the day.   Please join the choir and clergy of Grace Church next Sunday, November 3, at 4:00pm for First at Four. 

 

Reminders 
moon ANNUAL HARVEST GALA Saturday, November 2, 2013

Our annual Harvest Celebration takes place on Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm. Join us in fellowship with live music, dancing, a silent auction, raffles, great food. and drink!  Tickets may be purchased for $45 prior to the event or for $50 at the door. Available after the 9:30 and 11:00am

services on Sundays or by calling the office (845-358-1297).  

 

Silent Auction

We've got some great items lined up, but it's never too late for last minute donations! Contact Claudia at uccell@yahoo.com.

To place ad in the Harvest Journal: Contact Kim Cross at kim.cross@nyackcenter.org

It's a great opportunity to advertise your business or to express  best wishes for Thanksgiving and the Holidays. Space in the Harvest Festival Journal is available according to the following schedule: Full Page - $40.00; Half Page - $25.00; Inside Front Cover - $100.00; Inside Back Cover - $100.00; Back Cover - $150.00. Ad forms are available in the back of the church. Deadline is October 29.  

 

 

Free Baby Sitting at you own home available - Contact Moriah Olsen at moriahso@yahoo.com to make arrangements in advance.

 

LECTIONARY DISCUSSION

The Adult Education & Spiritual Formation Commission hosts an informal study of the morning's lectionary readings during the time between the 9:30 and 11:00am services (10:20-10:50am) when there are no special presentations scheduled.     All are welcome to grab a cup of coffee and join the group in the Fenton Room.

SENIOR YOUTH GROUP - CITRUS SALE
The Senior Youth Group is selling Florida citrus again this year to raise money for the youth service trip.  Orders can be placed until October 27 and the fruit will be delivered before Thanksgiving.  Oranges, grapefruit, tangelos or a mixed box (containing oranges and grapefruit) come in 10 pound boxes ($20) or 20 pound boxes ($30).  The orders are prepaid so please make checks out to "Grace Church."  If you have any questions or want to place an order contact Karen Kyle at 358-3387 or karenfkyle@gmail.com.

CLOTHING DONATIONS NEEDED

The Senior Youth Group is going on a Midnight Run on November 9 and they are looking for the following items to distribute: men's jeans and/or heavyweight pants, mens sweaters and sweatshirts (hoodies especially), men's coats, T-shirts, shoes and blankets. If anyone would like to purchase new socks or underwear that would be greatly appreciated and we are also looking for small (hotel) sized toiletries. Please bring donations to the narthex (entrance of the church). If you have questions, call Tom Burns (845) 729-3544.

PIPE ORGANS OF ORANGETOWN & ROCKLAND

On Saturday, November 16 the Historical Society of Rockland County is hosting a daytrip to sites of several of the areas most historic and well-known pipe organs - including our own Casavant. At each stop, guests will be treated to a brief introduction and demonstration of the organ.  The trip departs at 8:45am from Banchetto Feast Restaurant in Nanuet, and ends after a buffet luncheon at Banchetto Feast.  For more information & ticket details: RocklandHistory.org; 845-634-9629.

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Parting Thought 

You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new reality that makes the existing reality obsolete.

 

R. Buckminster Fuller  

GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

130 First Avenue.Nyack.New York.10960.845-358-1297

 

The Reverend Owen C. Thompson , Rector 

Brandon Beachamp, Interim Organist and Choirmaster 

www.gracechurchnyack.org