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All Saints Sunday  - November 3, 2013  
Collect of the Day

 

Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. 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, Steven, Robert A, Miriam, Fran F, Clinton Taplin, Steven Valvo, Dominique Rhoklin, Ewan, Claire, Fred Teyan, Marie Stay, Marie Young, Janet Drury 

REST IN PEACE 

John Park, Judy Platt, wife of parishioner Frank Platt (Condolences may be sent to Frank at PO Box 31, Palisades, NY  10964)

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
What makes a saint? Extravagance. Excessive love, flagrant mercy, radical affection, exorbitant charity, immoderate faith, intemperate hope, inordinate love. None of which is an achievement, a badge to be earned or a trophy to be sought; all are secondary by-products of the one thing that truly makes a saint, which is the love of God, which is membership in the body of Christ, which is what all of us, living and dead, remembered and forgotten, great souls and small, have in common. Some of us may do more with that love than others and may find ourselves able to reflect it in a way that causes others to call us saints, but the title is one that has been given to us all by virtue of our baptisms. The moment we rose dripping from the holy water we joined the communion of saints, and we cannot go back any more than we can give back our names or the blood in our veins.


So All Saints Day is a family reunion indeed, of a clan made kin by Christ's blood. There are heroes and scoundrels at the party, beloved aunts and estranged cousins, relatives we adore and those who plainly baffle us. They are all ours, and we are all included. On All Saints Day we worship amidst a great fluttering of wings, with the whole host of heaven crowding the air above our heads. Call their names and hear them answer "Present." On All Saints Day, they belong to us and we to them, and as their ranks swell so do the possibilities that open up in our own lives. Because of them and because of one another and because of the God who binds us all together we can do more than any of us had dreamed to do alone.

 

Barbara Brown Taylor in   "A Great Cloud of Witnesses," Weavings, Sept./Oct. 1988

This Week  

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

6:00pm Junior Youth Group Nightwatch

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

7:30pm Harvest Gala

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - All Saints' Sunday  

Daylight Savings Time Ends -- Enjoy that extra hour! 

 

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist

10:10am Church School community activity & refreshments

11:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)   

followed by coffee hour in Memorial Hall

2:30pm Choir

4:00pm First At Four - Choral Evensong

6:30pm Senior Youth Group

 

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

MONDAY & WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY4:30pm AGC! CircusSchool

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

11:00am Grace's Thrift Shop Annual Meeting (Patterson Hall)

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

POLLING AT GRACE CHURCH 6:00am to 9:00pm (Memorial Hall)

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

7:30pm Youth Commission (Patterson Hall)

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

7:30pm Choir rehearsal (Choir Room)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Diocese of New York Convention (Cathedral of St. John the Divine)

10:00amMidnight Run (Memorial Hall)

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

9:30am Holy Eucharist

10:10amChurchSchool classes/refreshments

11:00am  Holy Eucharist (Rite II w/choir)

followed by coffee hour in Memorial Hall

JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP NIGHTWATCH

The much anticipated annual Junior Youth Group Nightwatch will take place tonight, 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.

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 are  $50 at the door. 

 

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.

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

 

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 on Sunday, November 3, at 4:00pm for First at Four. 

Announcements  
Incense Alert
Please note that incense will be used as part of the All Saints' Sunday liturgy at 11:00am this Sunday.
PLEDGE 2014

If you have not received your pledge packet -- or can't find it under that stack of papers on the desk -- it's always available on the pledge page of  our website. If you have questions, please be in touch with Fr. Owen,  or pledge secretary Sally Ann Mock.
ASSORTED DISHES, UTENSILS, ETC WANT TO GO HOME
Many of you were kind enough to help in providing a bountiful succession of meals to welcome the Thompson family to their new home at Grace. Thank you again, to all of you!  We have a lovely collection of serving utensils and dishes now ready to be returned to their rightful owners --  if you're one of them, please stop by the office or talk to Fr. Owen on Sunday.

BISHOP WALKABOUT - AT GRACE ON NOVEMBER 14

A bishop suffragen to the diocese of New York will be elected at a special convention on December 7

where our convention delegates -- Molly MacQueen & Sally Seiler, Kickie Fulmor & Lynn-Marie Schnalzer, alternates -- will have the opportunity to vote.   

 

You'll can meet the candidates for suffragen bishop on Thursday, November 14, beginning at 1:00pm here at Grace.  For more on all the candidates and on the process to elect a bishop, go to: http://suffraganny.org/

 

GRACEMUSIC PRESENTS THE SEBASTIANS &

ALMOST WALL-TO-WALL VIVALDI

On Sunday, November 17 at 4:00pm, GraceMusic presents The Sebastians chamber ensemble, winners of Early Music America's 2012 Baroque Performance Competition Audience Award, performing Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico concerti and a newly commissioned companion suite by Robert Honstein (New York premier). A "Meet-the-Artists" reception follows the performance.. Admission: $20; seniors $15; Students $5.  For more information go to www.gracemusic.info or call 845-358-1297 ext. 16.

Reminders 

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 

Poem for Right Now

Above all trust in the slow work of God.
We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
That it is made by passing through some stages of instability...
And that may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with us.
Our ideas mature gradually, let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don't try to force them on, as though we could be today
What time (that is to say grace and circumstance acting on our own good will)
Will make us tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within us will be.
Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading us,
And accept the anxiety of feeling ourselves in suspense and incomplete.


-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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