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Baptism of Our Lord - January 12, 2014
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Collect of the Day
Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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Readings
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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
REST IN PEACE: Edmund "Sandy" Braun
Visiting hours will be Friday January 10, from 2 pm to 4 pm and 7pm to 9 pm at the Joseph W. Sorce F.H. Inc. where services will be held on Saturday, January 11 at 10:00 am. Internment will be in Germonds Cemetery, New City
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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Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve a nook of shadow for the passing bird; keep a place in your heart for the unexpected guests, an altar for the unknown God. Then if a bird sing among your branches, do not be too eager to tame it. If you are conscious of something new-thought or feeling, wakening in the depths of your being-do not be in a hurry to let in light upon it, to look at it; let the springing germ have the protection of being forgotten, hedge it round with quiet, and do not break in upon its darkness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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FRIDAY, January 10 9:00pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall) SATURDAY, January 11 9:00am Vestry/Mutual Ministry Review
10:00am Midnight Run meal preparation (Memorial Hall) 7:30pm Helping Hands (Memorial Hall) SUNDAY, January 12 8:00am/9:30am/11:00pm Holy Eucharist 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) MONDAY, January 13 4:30pm AGC! Circus School (Memorial Hall) TUESDAY, January 14 10:30am Staff Meeting (Rector's Office) 1:30pm Toddler Group (Classrooms) 7:00pm Boy Scouts WEDNESDAY, January 15 4:30pm AGC! Circus School (Memorial Hall) 7:30pm Adult Education & Spiritual Formation Commission Meeting (Patterson Hall) THURSDAY, January 16 12:00pm Brown Bag & A Bible (Patterson Hall) 4:30pm AGC! Circus School (Memorial Hall) 7:30pm Choir FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 1:30pm Toddler Group (Classrooms) 4:30pm AGC! Circus School SUNDAY, January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. 8:00am/9:30am/11:00am Holy Eucharist 10:10 Church School- COMMUNITY ACTIVITY 2:30 - 6:30pm AGC! Youth Troupe rehearsal MONDAY, January 20 - Church Office Closed |
CONFIRMATION CLASS
Our confirmation class will begin on Sunday, January 12 during the regular church school time (10:15 - 11:00am), meeting upstairs in the choir room. If you have questions, or would like to find out more, please be in touch with Erik Johnke:erikjohnke@hotmail.com.Adults who may be interested in being received or confirmed should talk with Fr. Owen.
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PARISH FORUMS between the 9:30 & 11:00am services in Memorial Hall
THIS SUNDAY January 12
Keeping Christmas in an increasingly consumer spending environment. How was your Christmas this year? Are there traditions you follow that work?
Don't work?
Sunday, January 26
Grace Church and outreach - what can we do? What should we do? How do we determine where and how to help?
Grab a cup of Grace's finest coffee & join us for these special presentations!
On Sundays when there is no special presentation scheduled, bring your coffee into the Fenton Room for a discussion of the day's lectionary readings.
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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 THIS SUNDAY 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.
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MUSIC FOR MUSIC
World class musicians join forces to inspire the next generation
THIS SUNDAY 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
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Announcements & Reminders
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ADULT EDUCATION & SPIRITUAL FORMATION
COMMISSION MEETING January 15 at 7:30pm
The Adult Education & Spiritual Formation Commission will meet Wednesday, January 15 at 7:30pm to discuss plans for programs during Lent and beyond. Everyone is welcome to attend, so if you're interested in helping or have programming suggestions, we hope to see you. Contact Kickie Fulmor if you'd like more information:
lexow2@yahoo.comBOOK GROUP - Saturday, January 25 at 10:30am Come, Come, Whoever You Are; Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times Come, yet again, come, come. The AESF Book Group will devote its next meeting to the ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a thirteenth century Persian scholar, poet and Sufi mystic. People of all faiths have been profoundly moved by the truths and wisdom found in these poems. You may read as many or as few as you'd like in preparation. Bring a favorite if you have one. We will have samples of his work available , and plan to have a light breakfast while we explore the magic of these poems and compare them to your current thoughts on sacred readings and prayer.
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SENIOR YOUTH GROUP CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP
June 29 - July 12, 2014
This year the youth group's annual service project will again be in Nicaragua. We will need commitments from those who would like to participate by the end of January. If you'd like to know more, please be in touch with youth group leader Moriah Olsen (moriahso@yahoo.com).
Everyone can support the trip by feasting at the fundraising breakfasts organized by the youth group each month - watch for the next one on Sunday, February 2.
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YOGA CLASS SIGN UP
If you'd like to receive information about a weekday yoga class forming here soon, please look for signup sheet at church or contact the office (845-358-1297/parishoffice@gracechurchnyack.org) and we'll keep you informed as details are finalized.
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BROWN BAG AND A BIBLE - Thursdays at noon
Our new weekday bible study began this week, with Fr. Owen leading a noontime bible study session focused on lectionary readings for the coming Sunday. Everyone is welcome -- and encouraged! -- to join us. Bring a bible, and a bag lunch if you wish, and come on down to Patterson Hall at noon.
You can find the readings for each Sunday here.
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GRACEMUSIC PRESENTS:
Three Organists Extravaganza
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.
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Come to Amazing Grace CIRCUS! 5th Annual CircusCares 4 Your Kids VALENTINE'S DAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Drop your kids off at the circus and have a lovely evening at one of your favorite Nyack restaurants...by yourselves! Where? THE CIRCUS SPACE@GRACE (Memorial Hall) from 6 - 9:00PM The evening includes pizza, popcorn, cotton candy & juice, PLUS juggling, trapeze, silks, tightwire, diabolos, acrobatics & clowning! We'll even show circus movies in our mini-theater. Designed for ages 4 - 14. Cost is $45/child (cheaper than a babysitter and 5x's the fun)This event is usually sold out so please RSVP early! We can take up to 45 children in our Circus Space. For info or to reserve a spot: amazinggracecircus.org/845-358-8740.
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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
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The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi ~
(To learn more about the 13th century poet, click here)
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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
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