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Eighth Sunday After Pentecost - August 3, 2014
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Collect of the Day
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Readings [We are using Track 2 of the indicated readings.] This Week
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Bob & Donna Weber, Mickey Federico, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Teri Caserto, Shirley Federico, Courtney Hoenveld, 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, George Fee, Robert A., Miriam, Dale Sarventi, Richard, Peggy, Madeline Schnalzer, Sheri Hall Smith, Louis, Maria, Eileen, Billy, Roberta, Margo, Bernadette, Marketa, Tess, Al Lalli, Peter Zakrpine, Betty Mettler, Marvin Spruck, Lydia, Genevieve, Robert, Jeannie, Ewan, Derek, Billie Monaghan Morgan, Lyn Casey, Russell, Keira and Carys Lyman, Nancy Andrews, Nancy Leppelmeier, Theresa Weber, Eleanor & Rebecca Fassett, Kathryn Lehman,Jorge Severino, James Macera
THE COMMUNITY OF PIEDRA MENUDA, NICARAGUA, ESPECIALLY: Consuelo, Marbeli, Francisca, Carla, Aracely, Don Pedro, Will, Lenin, Don Wil, Payo, Carlos, Raptor, Jacaron, Gato, Luis
Please click here to send us a message if you would like to add or remove a name from the prayer list.
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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 As Christians, we know that there is a Prince of Peace who came to set right what humanity continues to destroy through oppression, injustice, and violence. We know that we are still in wait to see the "kingdom come" which is "already" and "not yet." And until then, we work to bring about that kingdom "on earth as it is in heaven," which we pray for each Sunday in the Lord's Prayer. It begins with asking the tough, moral questions - with speaking truth to power. It's time for some truth telling. Jim Wallis in God's Politics blog
Bp. Dietsche has asked for contributions to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem's Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Find out more HERE; there is a direct link to make contributions to this hospital which has been severely damaged in the ongoing conflict. Click here for a perspective on the situation in Gaza from the same source. |
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Are you on the worship ministry schedule this weekend? CLICK HERE
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Sunday, August 3 8:00am Morning Prayer (Rite I) 10:00am Morning Prayer (Rite II)
Monday - Friday - Amazing Grace Circus Camp Thursday, August 7
12:00pm Brown Bag and a Bible (Patterson Hall)
7:30pm Rain Location, Hopper House Music in the Garden series
Saturday, August 9
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
Sunday, August 10
8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I) 10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II) |
Please note that both of the services this Sunday, August 3 will be Morning Prayer.
There is no Communion as part of this service.
Morning Prayer has its roots in the monastic tradition and is similar to the form adopted by many Protestant denominations as their standard for Sunday worship. Through the mid-20th century it was commonly the main Sunday morning service in many Episcopal parishes. Click here if you'd like to know more.
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PEOPLE'S  CLIMATE MARCH
SEPTEMBER 21 IN NEW YORK CITY - SAVE THE DATE!
On September 21 people from all over the country will converge in New York City to take part in what is billed as the "largest climate march in history." The People's Climate March is planned for Sunday, September 21st, just two days before world leaders attend a major Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters here in NYC.
You can read much more about the event HERE, in a letter from the diocesan committee on the environment, which is urging churches to involved.
Do you want to be a part of Grace's presence and participation in this event? Please contact the office so we can begin planning soon!
And while you're at it, right now a one week long Facebook Invite Blitz is underway to get over 200,000 people invited to the official People's Climate March event, so
GO HERE to sign up and then invite all your friends.
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"...I was a stranger and you welcomed me."
Matthew 25:35
A few weeks ago, many of you will have seen the story we circulated about children from Central America who are being housed temporarily at Abbot House, a facility in Westchester, and the program that Christ Church in Tarrytown has initiated to visit the children and help provide for their needs. Right now there are 14 young boys from 14 to 17 years old in the program, but within the next month it is expected that their numbers will swell to a total of 50, with 30 young boys and 20 mothers and babies.
At this point they can use donations of backpacks and art supplies as well as money to purchase sneakers and cleats (the boys are huge soccer fans.) They will be looking for diapers and baby supplies in the future, but not until later in the year.
We have also been invited to join volunteers in visiting the children -- a group from Christ Church meets there at 1:30 on Sundays and travel together to Abbott House where they have a simple worship service and play games & visit with the kids.
If you'd like more information or would like to be part of a group visiting the children in the future, please contact the office.
There will be a box available for donated items beginning Sunday. If you'd like to make a financial donation, please make your check out to Grace Church with Abbott House on the memo line.
CLICK HERE for more resources.
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 FROM AMAZING GRACE CIRCUS
We hit our Goal! Thank you to ShopRite for allowing AGC! Board members to stand outside West Nyack's store to ask for donations for scholarships to send community kids to circus camp. Drum Roll: we raised $1,026.36 in two days. If anyone would like to MATCH that amount, or contribute half, or even a quarter, towards the total...we could send 1 child to 6 weeks of camp, or 3 children to 2 weeks each of camp. Please donate here. Carlo Pellegrini
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SUMMER OFFICE HOURS
From July 1 through September 1, please note that church office hours are Monday - Thursday, 9:00am - 3:00pm.
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| PLEASE NOTE THAT GRACEFUL YOGA AND YOGA 101 WILL BE ON HIATUS IN AUGUST
Classes will resume after Labor Day.
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Disgraceland
By Mary Karr
Before my first communion, I clung to doubt as Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark surrounding Eden for a wormhole into paradise. God had formed me from gel in my mother's womb, injected by my dad's smart shoot. They swapped sighs until I came, smaller than a bite of burger. Quietly, I grew till my lungs were done then the Lord sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me. Maybe that piercing made me howl at birth, or the masked creatures whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt to free me. I was hoisted by the heels and swatted, fed and hauled around. Time-lapse photos show my fingers grow past crayon outlines, my feet come to fill spike heels. Eventually, I lurched out to kiss the wrong mouths, get stewed, and sulk around. Christ always stood to one side with a glass of water. I swatted the sap away. When my thirst got great enough to ask, a clear stream welled up inside, some jade wave buoyed me forward, and I found myself upright in the instant, with a garden inside my own ribs aflourish. There, the arbor leafs. The vines push out plump grapes. You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it. Poetry (January 2004). |
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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 |
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