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The Fifth Sunday of Lent -  April 6, 2014
Collect of the Day
Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you 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, Courtney Hoenveld, Joseph Caserto, Janet, Thomas Humeston,  Elaine MacPhee, Tankert Mahler, Marie Haynie, Pat Mapstone, Jack Seeman, Evelyn, Miranda Pinckert, Adele, Susan Northcutt, Clinton Taplin, Dominique Rhoklin, Fred Teyan, Marie Stay, Marie Young, Peggy McCann, Janet Drury, George Fee, Robert A., Miriam,  Dale Sarventi, Richard, Peggy, Theodore, Bill Keenan, Madeline Schnalzer, Ramon Sola, Sheri Hall Smith, Nancy Andrews, Louis, Maria, Eileen Billy, Robert Daly, Roberta   

 

 

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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

The important thing to hold in mind is that all of our energies must not be consumed in merely getting through the day or the week.

 

In the living of our lives from day to day we must be geared to goals or purposes that inform the character of all our activities. Our living must be structured by what it is that we are trying to achieve with our lives....  

 

What will be the extent of a man's life he does not know - in what time or place he will come to an end is not given to him to know. The wise man, therefore, lives his life seriously each day but does not take it seriously.

 

Howard Thurman

This Week  

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SATURDAY, April 5
4:00pm Private Rental (Memorial Hall)

SUNDAY, APRIL 6 

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

9:00am SCOP  

10:10am  Easter Fair (Memorial Hall) 

12:30pm SCOF 

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

2:30pm Choir

3:30pm NSN/AGC event (Memorial Hall)
4:00pm Evensong   

6:00pm SYG outing to "Noah"

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9

5:00pm St. Cecilia Choir  

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 10

7:30am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall) 

12:00pm Brown Bag & a Bible (Patterson Hall)

2:30pm Graceful Yoga (Memorial Hall)

7:30pm Choir

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 12

10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)

10:00am Stripping of palms (kitchen)

 

PALM SUNDAY, APRIL 13 - see schedule below

EASTER FAIR ON SUNDAY, APRIL 6

The Senior Youth Group will again host our annual Easter Fair featuring games, crafts, a bake sale and an Easter Basket raffle all to help raise funds for the 2014 Church Youth Service Mission to Nicaragua.  Be sure to stop by and get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny!

FIRST AT FOUR: Choral Evensong on Sunday,  April 6 

On the first Sunday of each month 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.  On Sunday, April 6 the clergy and choir mark the feast day of Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated on April 4, 1968.  Join us in the sacred stillness of the church for a peaceful interlude of quiet reflection.

Announcements 

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EASTER FLOWER MEMORIALS
Easter flower memorial envelopes must be returned to the office by April 14 for acknowledgement in the Easter service  bulletins.  You'll find extra envelopes at the entrance to the church -- you can drop the envelope in the offering plate on Sunday, or stop by the office during the week.
STRIPPING OF PALMS
At 10:00am on Saturday, April 12, members of the altar guild will gather to prepare the palms for services on Palm Sunday.  You're invited to join them in this traditional task -- all are welcome!
RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE
We need to have some internet wiring done here at Grace, and are looking for recommendations for contractors.  If you've worked with someone that did a great job for you, please let us know.

THE LIAR...THE TITLE TELLS ALL  

 
Take one young man who cannot tell the truth, his manservant who cannot tell a lie, add two beautiful young women, a jealous lover-and then sit back to enjoy the hilarious consequences in David Ives's brilliantly witty adaptation of the classic comedy, The Liar. Barbara Cross is now taking reservations for the 7:00pm performance on Sunday, June 29  with our usual picnicking on the lovely grounds of Boscobel starting at 5:00pm, weather permitting. We already have 17 seats taken of the 25 reserved so don't miss out. Contact Barbara ASAP during coffee hour, call her @845- 358-4599 or send an e-mail to babcross@aol.com. You may also call the church office (845-358-1297, ext. 10) or send Thayer an email to reserve.  Then write a check ($35.00 per ticket) to Grace Episcopal Church (Shakespeare on memo line), hand it in or mail to the church office. How easy is that?

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Parting Thought 

Ask Me

Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what I say.

 

William Stafford



GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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

 

The Reverend Owen C. Thompson , Rector 

Brandon N. Beachamp, Organist and Choirmaster 

www.gracechurchnyack.org