The Third Sunday of Easter 
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS 
Bob & Donna Weber, Mickey Federico, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, Shirley Federico, Miranda Pinckert, Clinton Taplin, Betty Mettler, Jeannie, Joanne Carter, Janine Carter, Mike Maslanek, Dr. John Finn, Anita Sevier-Berg, Jean,  Bill Weber, Sylvia Manley, Dr. Roufa,Michael Maslanek, Hubert Connoly, Noreen, Steve Fanning, Peter Foley,  Ian,  Jean, Harper Grant, Constance Thompson, Ethan Mathews, Thomas Humeston, Rosemary Owen, Sadie Graham, Al and Carol Lalli, Dr. John Finn, Audrey Graves, Kathy, Risa, Elaine MacPhee, Marianna Quinn Parsekian, Bill Honeger, Molly MacQueen, Peggy Lehrecke, John Loftin, Sr., Peter Zakrepine, Chris Drysdale, Shirley Chalke, Candice Boyle, Nury Ferrer, Geoff Blank, Bill Fox, Patrick, Stephanie, Phyllis Richey, Elizabeth Putnam
REST IN PEACE: Gaye Giunta, mother of parishioner Jennifer Giunta Hausler
  
Please also remember: 
The people of Flint, Michigan
Refugees from the violence and turmoil in Syria.

We continue to take up a special offering for Syrian refugee relief at Sunday services.  You may make your check out to Grace Episcopal Church with Syrian Refugee on the memo line, or go to Episcopal Relief and Development to learn more and make your donation online.

Please note: Names will generally remain on the prayer list for one month. If you would like to add or return a name to the list, please be in touch with the office.
Readings  [We are using Track 2 of the indicated readings.]

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Collect of the Day
O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Reflection
"Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. I wind my experiences around myself and cover myself with glory like bandages in order to make myself perceptible to myself and to the world, as if I were an invisible body that could only become visible when something visible covered its surface. But there is no substance under the things with which I am clothed, I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me I am my own mistake." 
Thomas Merton in Seeds of Contemplation

This Week
Are you on the worship ministry schedule for this weekend?  Check here.

FRIDAY, April 8 
5:00 Pizza for a Purpose (Memorial Hall)

SATURDAY, April 9 
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
10:00am  "The Episcopal Church Welcomes You" has been moved to Saturday, April 16 

SUNDAY, April 10 
Fundraising Breakfast to support 2016 Summer Mission Trip
(Memorial Hall)
8:00am/9:30am/11:00am Holy Eucharist
10:10am Church School Service Sunday/Confirmation Class
Bible Study./Refreshments
 
WEDNESDAY, April 13
7:00pm Group Meditation (Bradley Chapel)
 
THURSDAY, April 14
7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast
10:00am Pastoral Care Team Meeting (Patterson Hall)
2:00pm Brown Bag & A Bible (Patterson Hall)
5:30pm Graceful Yoga
7:30pm Choir
 
SATURDAY, April 16
10:00am The Episcopal Church Welcomes You (Patterson Hall)
10:00am Choir Rehearsal
 
SUNDAY, April 17
8:00am/9:30am (baptism)/11:00am - Holy Eucharist
10:10 Church School & Confirmation/Bible Study/Refreshments
4:00pm GraceMusic presents WaterMusic
6:30pm Senior Youth Group (Fenton Room)
 
THIS Sunday
, APRIL 10  
All morning in Memorial Hall
Senior Youth Group Fundraising Breakfast for Summer Mission Trip
FRENCH TOAST with all the fixin's
Come Hungry!  
BLOOD DRIVE ST. ANN'S SCHOOL CAFETERIA
THIS Sunday, April 10  from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
Spring is here, so Spring into action and sign up for the Spring Blood Drive this Sunday at St. Ann's School Cafeteria from 8:00am to 2:00pm. Please also ask your family, friends, coworkers and Facebook Contacts to join you in saving lives. Thanks again for your past (and current) support. o make an appointment, please contact George Berry at 358-2424 or email benison65@yahoo.com. Walk-ins also welcome! 
Announcements
SOME CHURCH SCHOOL EVENTS 

Sunday, April 10 is Service Sunday -  the church school meets together for a community service project; Confirmation Class will meet as usual.

PIZZA WITH A PURPOSE     FRIDAY, April 8 5-7:00pm  (Memorial Hall)
This month's non-profit is Keep Rockland Beautiful
A non-denominational event, this is open to all middle school & high school students from all schools, who will receive community service hours for working on our project and learning about Keep Rockland Beautiful.  Bring a friend!
Sunday, April 10 will be Service Sunday. 
 
COMMUNITY SERVICE - Join us in Memorial Park on Saturday, April 16
for Keep Rockland Beautiful's big Earth Day clean up. 
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WELCOMES YOU- Remaining session has been moved to Saturday, April 16    10:00am to noon
Would you like to be Confirmed or Received into the Episcopal Church when the Bishop is here on May 8? New to Grace, or just want to know more about the Episcopal Church in general? Curious about what the Narthex or a thurifer is? Fr. Owen will lead the conclusion of this two-session introductory course - open to all - offering an overview of history, beliefs, and more. Did you miss the first session?  Please contact Fr. Owen to learn more. 
"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE" - Don't Miss Out!
MONDAY DEADLINE 
We've had an amazing response to our Fellowship plans to attend the Sunday, June 26 7:30pm performance of As You Like It. So far twenty-nine Grace Church family and friends will be there to celebrate our eighteenth summer at the festival plus Shakespeare's 400th birthday. However, the deadline to finalize our order is Monday, April 11 so please contact Barbara Cross ASAP if you are interested in joining us. Tickets are $38 each. Call her @845- 358-4599 or send an e-mail to babcross@aol.com by Monday at noon. It will be another fun evening as young lords and ladies cast off the stuffy conventions of their lives at court -- and are swiftly entangled in a merry game of romantic antics, cross-dressing chaos and mistaken identity. Savor the liberating powers of friendship, love and imagination with Shakespeare's most exquisite comedy. Reserve your seat today!
IN THE COMMUNITY

In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness
Wednesday, April 13 at 7:30pm 
Please join us for this very special program. Learn about mental illness from individuals who have been there. Free and Open to the Public. Reform Temple of Rockland, 330 North Highland Avenue (Route 9W) Presented by NAMI of Rockland.


Don't miss this "Double Choir" concert
 with the Nyack High School Chorus!


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COMING IN MAY! 
Memorial Garden Mother's Day Plant Sale -
Saturday, May 7, 10:00am to 2:00pm
Join us in our beautiful Memorial Garden for our annual plant and flower sale.   We will offer:
  •  Hand made bouquets and fresh flower arrangements for Mothers' Day
  •  An array of annual bedding plants and perennials from our parishioners' own gardens.
  •  A wonderful plant sale in a beautiful space!
We need plants from folks' gardens, we have 4 in. pots available for people to use, we need help pricing and making bouquets on Friday evening May 6, and setting up before 10am on Saturday.  Contact Sondra Holt 358-0553, sondrasholt@gmail.com if you're able to help.


IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO PLEDGE.  
Parting Thought

Entrance

Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight,
Out of the room that lets you feel secure.
Infinity is open to your sight.
Whoever you are.
With eyes that have forgotten how to see
From viewing things already too well-known, L
ift up into the dark a huge, black tree
And put it in the heavens: tall, alone.
And you have made the world and all you see.
It ripens like the words still in your mouth.
And when at last you comprehend its truth,
Then close your eyes
 and gently set it free.

(After Rilke)
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