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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost - August 10, 2014
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Collect of the Day
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; 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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CLICK HERE for Bible study resources.
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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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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music. Kurt Vonnegut
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Are you on the worship ministry schedule this weekend? CLICK HERE
[Apologies to those who clicked on this link last week, only to find July's schedule!]
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Saturday, August 9
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
Sunday, August 10
8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I) 10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II) Thursday, August 14 12:00pm Bible Study (Patterson Hall) Sunday, August 17 8:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite I) 10:00am Holy Eucharist (Rite II) |
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GUEST ORGANIST
This week we welcome guest organist Jan Valentine. Jan has become a familiar face at Grace this past year as a member of the Grace Choir. Jan served for twenty years as Organist-Choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church in Pleasantville, New York. In addition to her dedicated musical career, Jan is the "chaplain to the chaplains" at Westchester Medical Center and supervises the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) students.
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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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HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF JOINING OUR TEAM OF CHURCH SCHOOL TEACHERS?
Each year new parents and other volunteers join our team of church school teachers. No previous teaching experience is needed, and you don't need to have kids in the church school. Each grade level is assigned three teachers to enable a rotation that requires teaching no more than every third week from 10:15 to 11:00 on Sundays. We're working on finding a fun and easy new curriculum to make the teaching experience better than ever. We need more volunteers for next year to keep up these numbers. Please contact Lainie Murrell at 825-6236 or gracekidsnyack@gmail.com if you are interested in learning more about becoming a church school teacher. Thank you!
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CORNER STONE CAMPAIGN
"The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes"
Mark 12:10
You may have noticed the scaffolding around our beautiful church and the attention we are giving to the stonework. Stones are found throughout the Bible, from the stones that became the tablets for the commandments, to precious stones and jewels, to the lowly stone Mary Magdalene was thought to carry in her shoe. The ancient people of our world moved giant stones to create monuments of mystery and awe. Our stones here at Grace Church are granite and native sandstone as strong as any and as vulnerable to time... READ MORE
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JOIN US AT THE 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 march is planned to take place just two days before world leaders attend a major Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters here in NYC. 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!
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"...I was a stranger and you welcomed me."
Matthew 25:35
""I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Abbot House, a facility in Westchester, has recently begun a program to provide transitional housing for unaccompanied children who have arrived in the U.S. from Central America. They are currently housing 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. Christ Church in Tarrytown has initiated a program to visit the children and help provide for their needs. They can use donations of backpacks and art supplies as well as money to purchase sneakers and cleats (the boys are huge soccer fans.) 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.
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 HOPPER HAPPENSParishioner Kris Burns' short film "Chasing Edward Hopper" will be shown as part of an outdoor evening of film featuring the classic "The Third Man" -- outdoors in the garden at the Hopper House, this Friday, August 8 beginning at 8:30pm. CLICK HERE for details. The Hopper Happens exhibition runs through August 17.
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"WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT"
by Wendell Berry
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We who prayed and wept
for liberty from kings
and yoke of liberty
accept the tyranny of things
we do not need.
In plenitude too free,
we have become adept
beneath the yoke of greed.
Those who will not learn
in plenty to keep their place
must learn it by their need
when they have had their way
and the fields spurn their seed.
We have failed Thy grace.
Lord, I flinch and pray,
send Thy necessity.
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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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