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The Epiphany -  January 5, 2014
Collect of the Day

O God, who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only-begotten Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know thee now by faith, to thy presence, where we may behold thy glory face to face; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Readings

 

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Prayer List  

Bob & Donna Weber, Mickey Federico, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Teri Caserto, Shirley Federico, Bernadette Polizzi, Courtney Hoenveld, Joseph Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston,  Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Marie Haynie, Pat Mapstone, Jack Seeman, Evelyn, Zell Schwartzman, Miranda Pinckert, Adele, Susan Northcutt, Clinton Taplin, Dominique Rhoklin, Fred Teyan, Marie Stay, Marie Young, Janet Drury, Holly Bee, George Fee, Robert A., Miriam

 

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
"We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality."

This Week  

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SUNDAY, January 5- Epiphany

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

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

10:10am Church School Classes/Refreshments (Patterson Hall)

2:30pm AGC! Youth Troupe rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

4:00pm Choral Evensong

 

WEDNESDAY, January 8

7:00pm Youth  Commission meeting

 

THURSDAY, January 9

7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)

7:30pm Choir

 

FRIDAY, January 10

9:00pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall)

 

SATURDAY, January 11

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

7:30pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall) 

 

SUNDAY, January 12

8:00am/9:30am/11:00pm

10:10am Church School Classes/Confirmation Class/Refreshments 

2:30pm AGC! Youth Troupe rehearsal (Memorial Hall)

4:00pm Music for Music - Nyack High School Marching Band benefit

7:30pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall)

 

 

BLOOD DRIVE AT GRACE  - SUNDAY, JANUARY 5
8:30am - 1:00pm in Memorial Hall
Your chance to win tickets to Super Bowl XLVIII 
Get the new year off to a great start by participating in this drive for the NY Blood Center -- It is so important to maintain an adequate blood supply during the winter months.  This year, the 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee is partnering with the Blood Center to help increase donations, and donors at Grace and other sites through January 17  will be entered into a sweepstakes for a pair of tickets to the Super Bowl! If you're interested in helping out at the drive, or to make an appointment, please contact Claudia Uccellani at 845.642.0807 or at uccell@yahoo.com

 

Walk-ins also welcome! 
FIRST AT FOUR

CHORAL EVENSONG THIS SUNDAY, JANUARY 5 at 4:00pm

The clergy and choir of Grace celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany with the traditional Anglican service of evensong, this month with music by Richard Proulx, Michael Gibson, Vincenzo Ruffo, and Martin Shaw. Join them in the sacred stillness of the church for a peaceful interlude and reflection at the end of your  holiday season.

 

Announcements  & Reminders 

ANNUAL NOMINATIONS PROCESS UNDERWAY

The nominating committee is now receiving names of potential candidates for election to the following positions: three vestry persons (three-year terms), two delegates and two alternate delegates to the diocesan convention, and four persons to serve on the next nominating committee along with the retiring vestry persons.  Nominating forms are available in the narthex.  Names will be received until January 12, 2014 and elections take place at the annual meeting on February 9, 2014.  Want to know more?   Talk to wardens Jeff McDowell and Kim Cross, or to Fr. Owen.

GRACEMUSIC PRESENTS: A Very Special Organ Concert 

It's a special treat to hear the organ music of composers like Bach, Franck, Mendelssohn, Widor, and Vierne in a setting that pairs an English-style church and a Casavant organ - one you can enjoy right here at Grace on Sunday January 26, 2014, at 4:00pm when GraceMusic offers a trio concert featuring three organists that represent over 40 years of music-making at Grace: John Gregory Bate, Brian-Paul Thomas, and Brandon Nicholas Beachamp.  A "Meet-the-Artists" reception follows the concert. Admission: $20; seniors $15; Students $5 For more information go to www.gracemusic.info or call (845) 358-1297 ext. 16.

THANK YOU TO GIVING TREE DONORS

Thanks to your generosity, gifts for 118 children served by the Nyack Center were delivered in time for Christmas.  Thank you to everyone who brought gifts, and to the Weiss family who coordinated the drive and delivered the gifts.

ADVENT WREATH FRAMES

If you purchased an Advent Wreath from us this year, please drop the frame off in the narthex or bring it by the office during the week (after January 1) so that we can recycle in the coming year.  Many thanks!

HELPING HANDS

Grace hosted 16 homeless Rockland residents for three nights in December.  Our next time to host is January 10, 11, and 12. We need volunteers to provide breakfast for our guests at @7:30am on Sunday, January 12. This could be a wonderful experience for one or more of our church families whose children are old enough to help. If you think you can help, please contact Charlie Cross - cjcross3ny@yahoo.com.

MUSIC FOR MUSIC

World class musicians join forces to inspire the next generation
On Sunday, January 12, at 4:00pm here at Grace Church, Stephen Williamson, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, Jerry Grossman, principal cello of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,Korliss Uecker, soprano - Metropolitan Opera, and Christopher Oldfather, piano, will perform in a special concert to benefit the Nyack High School Red Storm Marching Band.  Suggested donation: $25 adults/$15 students.  Free admission for children 12 and under and all Nyack Middle School/High School music students.  For more information: 845-480-5595; jbwsrw@aol.com

 
THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!  THANK YOU!
FOR YOUR 2014 PLEDGE SUPPORT!


We give thanks to Almighty God for your continued faithful support of our beloved parish.  Through your commitment, Grace Church can continue to do God's healing, reconciling, and liberating work in Nyack and in the larger world.  We can continue to provide for the needs of those who come to this place for solace, strength, fellowship, spiritual growth and development.  Without you this would not be possible.  We are excited about the New Year ahead and our shared work in making Christ's loving presence known.

 

For those who have yet to turn in their pledge cards and/or have not made a commitment,  we need you and your help as well.  Please join us in affecting positive change in this community and in the lives of the Grace Church parish family.  Everyone and every pledge matters!  So please do your part.

 

In Christ,  Fr. Owen and the Stewardship Committee

 

Pledge materials are always available on the pledge page of  our website, and at the back of the church. If you have questions, please be in touch with
Fr. Owen or pledge secretary Sally Ann Mock. 

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Parting Thought 

Snow 
By Anne Sexton  
from The Awful Rowing Toward God 

(Houghton Mifflin, 1975.)

Snow,
blessed snow,
comes out of the sky
like bleached flies.
The ground is no longer naked.
The ground has on its clothes.
The trees poke out of sheets
and each branch wears the sock of God.

There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
I bite it.
Someone once said:
Don't bite till you know
if it's bread or stone.
What I bite is all bread,
rising, yeasty as a cloud.

There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail.

 

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