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The Seventh Sunday of Easter - Bishop's Visitation & Confirmation
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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,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, Elaine MacPhee, Marianna Quinn Parsekian, Bill Honeger, Molly MacQueen, Peggy Lehrecke, John Loftin, Sr., Peter Zakrepine, Chris Drysdale, Shirley Chalke, Candice Boyle,Geoff Blank, Bill Fox, Patrick, Stephanie, Phyllis Richey, Elizabeth Putnam, George Fee, Savannah and Waldo Ferrer Rodriguez, Russell Fernando
Please also remember: Victims of the earthquake in Ecuador and flooding in Houston,Tx. The kidnapped girls of Nigeria 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.
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Readings [We are using Track 2 of the indicated readings.]
Collect of the Day
O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
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This is what you shall do
Walt Whitman
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
From the preface to Leaves of Grass
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Are you on the worship ministry schedule for this weekend? Check here.
FRIDAY, May 6
Plant Sale Set Up (Memorial Garden/Patterson)
SATURDAY, May 7
9:00am-2:00pm Nursery School of the Nyacks
Craft Fair/Tag Sale (Memorial Hall/Playground)
10:00am-2:00pm Mother's Day Plant in the Garden
SUNDAY, MAY 8
TWO SERVICES: 8:00am and 10:00am (Confirmation)
10:00am Confirmation Service, followed by a reception
WEDNESDAY, May 11
6:00pm Contemplative Prayer Group (Bradley Chapel)
THURSDAY, May 12
7:00am Men's Prayer Breakfast (Patterson Hall)
12:00pm Brown Bag & A Bible (Patterson Hall)
5:30pm Graceful Yoga
7:30pm Choir
SATURDAY, May 14
10:00am Bread for Life
10:00am Midnight Run (Memorial Hall)
2:00pm Celebration of the Life of Dirk Nakazawa
SUNDAY, MAY 15 - EPISCOPAL CHARITIES SUNDAY
8:00am/9:30am/11:00am
10:10am Church School/Bible Study/Refreshments
10:00am - 2:00pm Tag Sale to benefit Summer Mission Trip
12:30pm Grace's Kitchen Ministry Team Meeting
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Saturday, May 7, 10:00am to 2:00pm
IN MEMORIAL GARDEN
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.
Our friends at the Nursery School of the Nyacks (our weekday neighbors in the church school rooms) will be having a Craft Fair (Memorial Hall) and outdoor Tag Sale (Playground) on the 7th as well, so come prepared to browse and find some great bargains and unique gifts.
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CONFIRMATION IS THIS SUNDAY, MAY 8 at 10:00am
Services are at 8:00 and 10:00am
We'll need helpers and tasty treats to make the post-Confirmation reception Grace Church Special for the Bishop and our confirmands. It's not too late to bake up something special!
Congratulations to our great class of confirmands:
Jae Cusick, Owen Fillmore, Sadie Friesen, Patrick Graham, Jenni Haera, Isabel Heider, Ariana Marsland, Isaac Murrell, Sophia Palitti, Will Paskowski, Quintin Rock, Oliver Schneck, Kevin Sestak, Emma Tauken, Charlotte Weiss
And to the adults being received:
Ed Knyfd, Heidi McCarthy, Jennifer McLaughlin, Patrick McLaughlin,
Dalila Perry, Natalie Russell
A big thank you to all the parents and teachers who have guided them, particularly Confirmation Team Leader Erik Johnke
Confirmands and adults being received are asked to arrive by 8:50am on Sunday morning for a brief run-through of the service.
On Sunday we welcome The Rt. Rev Allen K. Shin, Bishop Suffragen, Diocese of New York.
The special collection on Sunday is for the Bishops' Discretionary Funds, which enable our bishops to minister to those in need. Your contribution helps the bishops as they respond with compassion to the human needs brought to them. Please given generously, using the envelopes that will be provided on Sunday morning. Checks should be made out to the Diocese of New York and put in the offering plate on Sunday, or mailed to Grace Church at 130 First Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960.
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SOME CHURCH SCHOOL AND YOUTH EVENTS
SUNDAY, MAY 15
SENIOR YOUTH GROUP TAG SALE
Supports mission trip to the Dominican Republic
Drop off is Saturday the14th from 9-11am, or on the morning of the 15th. SAVE YOUR STUFF!
THE SENIOR YOUTH GROUP IS GOING RAFTING The annual rafting trip will be the weekend of June 4 - please be in touch with Joe Paskowski if you're interested! (jpaskowski@msn.com). SYG meets regularly on Sundays at 6:30pm in the Fenton Room.
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NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 15 we will mark Episcopal Charities Sunday
Episcopal Charities transforms the lives of those in need. Help support 48 parish-based feeding programs throughout the Diocese of New York, serving more than 6.7 million meals per year. Please give generously, using the envelopes that will be available next week. For more about Episcopal Charities,
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IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO PLEDGE.
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To be of use
Related Poem Content Details
BY MARGE PIERCY
The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.
I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.
I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
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GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 130 First Avenue, Nyack, New York 10960 845-358-1297
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