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Reflection

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been: a people busy and powerful, knowledgeable, ambivalent, important, fearful, and self-aware: a people who scheme, promote, deceive, and conquer; who pray for their loved ones, and long to flee misery and skip death. It is a weakening and discoloring idea, that rustic people knew God personally once upon a time-or even knew selflessness or courage or literature-but that it is too late for us. In fact, the absolute is available to everyone in every age. There never was a more holy age than ours, and never a less.

Annie Dillard in For the Time Being 

Saturday, JULY 5 10:30am Yoga 101 

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II)   

Monday - Friday - Amazing Grace Circus Camp

Thursday, JULY 10
12:00pm Brown Bag and a Bible (Patterson Hall)
2:30pm Graceful Yoga (Patterson Hall)

Friday, JULY 11

6:00pm Colsey/Travers wedding rehearsal

Saturday, JULY 12

10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)

10:30am Yoga 101 (Patterson Hall)

4:00pm Colsey/Travers wedding

Sunday, JULY 13 - The Rev. John Farrell, guest celebrant

8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I)

SUMMER OFFICE HOURS

From July 1 through September 1, please note that church office hours are Monday - Thursday, 9:00am - 3:00pm.

WELCOME TO THE REVEREND A. MEIGS ROSS                                           

On Sunday, our guest celebrant will be The Rev. A. Meigs Ross, LCSW, who is currently a Psychotherapist in private practice, the Director of the Post Graduate Program in Spirituality and Social Work at New York University and a Pastoral Educator at Union Theological Seminary in NY. She has served as a chaplain, pastoral educator and Director of Pastoral Care and Education at several local hospitals including Nyack Hospital, St. Luke's-Roosevelt and New York Presbyterian.  She has an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, a Diploma in Anglican Studies from General Theological Seminary and an MSW from New York University. Meigs and her family have been members of Grace Church since 1999. She lives in Valley Cottage with her spouse, Barbara Miesch.

2014 CHURCH YOUTH SERVICE MISSION TRIP ("CYSM") 

Our intrepid band of young people and their adult companions are entering their second week of the youth mission trip to Nicaragua, where they will be breaking ground on a new medical clinic in Piedra Menuda. It's not too late to support them!  If you would like to make a donation,  You may write a check to Grace Church adding "CYSM" to the memo line.  

Please keep all of the CYSM participants in your prayers as they begin their final trip preparations and until their safe return on July 12.    

2014 Participants: Emma Anderson, Bridget Anger, Sonia Anger, Leah Brand, Leo Garcia, Olivia Gilpin, Chris Healy, Acadia Kelly, Angela Nolan, Olivia Olsen, Molly Prouty, Guiseppe Pagano, Luca Reggiardo, Nico Reggiardo, Alice Scharf, Corey Watanabe, Caleb Weinman, and Ryan Weiss, and adults Charlie Cross, Linda Kelly, Moriah Olsen, and Fr. Owen Thompson.

FLAT GRACE!

Take your Grace with you this summer. 

Do you sometimes wish that you could take Grace Church with you on your summer travels? This year, you can! Well, you can take a Flat Grace photo. If you've heard of Flat Stanleys, it's the same idea. We'll have Flat Grace pictures to download, print out, (and laminate if you're crafty like that). Then take them with you on your summer travels. Even if you can't get to Grace, you can have Flat Grace with you. Take some souvenir photos with Flat Grace and send them to Lainie at gracekidsnyack@gmail.com or post them to our Flat Grace Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/flatgracenyack.

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In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being

by Denise Levertov

Birds afloat in air's current,
sacred breath?  No, not breath of God,
it seems, but God
the air enveloping the whole
globe of being.
It's we who breathe, in, out, in, in the sacred,
leaves astir, our wings
rising, ruffled -- but only the saints
take flight.  We cower
in cliff-crevice or edge out gingerly
on branches close to the nest.  The wind
marks the passage of holy ones riding
that ocean of air.  Slowly their wake
reaches us, rocks us.
But storms or still,
numb or poised in attention,
we inhale, exhale, inhale,
encompassed, encompassed.

From The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes