The Season After Pentecost
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Art Show Reception Tonight
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New art is hanging in the Bobbie Crow Memorial Gallery on the 3
rd
floor; though it’s been up for a couple of weeks, the official opening is this evening – Friday, September 21. In order to launch it with appropriate éclat, there will be a reception in the gallery from 5:30-7:30 p.m., with hors d’oeuvres and a chance to prowl through the works and meet the artists.
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Art Show and Reception Tonight
St. Francis Sunday/Blessing of Animals
Food Pantry Needs
Bach Choir Cantata Concert (9-23)
Pride Activities in October
Card Ministry Begins
Opportunities
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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The show, titled
Heart Inspirations,
features original works by Jean Coker and Lynne Mayer members of Civic Arts League.
Paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic, and encaustics are on display and are also for sale.
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Blessing of the Animals (Sunday, September 30)
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Bark, the herald angels sing! The good mews is that Grace will celebrate St. Francis’ Sunday on September 30 with the annual “Blessing of the Animals” at the 10:45 a.m. service. If the weather cooperates, the service will be in the courtyard; if it’s rainy, we’ll retreat to the undercroft with our furry buddies. If your life is regularly enriched by an animal, bring him or her with you to church – past years have brought dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and even goats. Your iguana is welcome too!
Giving thanks and blessing are good, but backing that gratitude up with an offering is better, so part of our celebration will be a collection of items needed by the local Humane Educational Society. You’ll find a list below of items currently needed – please cast your eye over it and bring something to help our local strays and the refugee animals who have been taken in from flooded North Carolina shelters.
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Canned cat and dog food
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Canned puppy and kitten food
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Towels and blankets (they don't have to be new)
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Newspaper
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Pill Pockets
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Laundry detergent
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Peanut butter
If you are allergic to animals or simply prefer your worship to proceed along more traditional lines, you are welcome to attend the 8:00 a.m. service, which will be indoors, fur-free and according to Hoyle (or Cranmer, perhaps).
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Clearly, this month’s paycheck will be split evenly between HES and the Food Pantry… the needs never end. We reached our limit for the month on Food Vouchers last week, so the pantry has seen even heavier action than usual, and thanks to you, there has been food on the shelf to pass on to those who need it. But of course, handing it out, leads to depletions; see below for the latest gaps in our supplies.
The pantry is low on these items:
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Spaghetti and sauce
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Saltine crackers
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Canned vegetables (green beans, carrots, peas, pinto beans)
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Hearty soups (pop-top cans and no “cream of,” please)
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Beef stew
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Applesauce/fruit cups
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Instant mashed potatoes
Thanks for your ongoing support!
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Bach Choir Cantata Series Begins
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Is your spirit Baroque? Do you wish people would just Bach off and let you revel in an afternoon of loveliness and musical wonder? If so, get yourselves to Christ Church on Sunday afternoon (September 23) to hear the Chattanooga Bach Choir (directed by our Music Director/Choral Conductor David Long) present the first in the Barnett & Co. Cantata Series. The program will include Bach’s BWV 148,
Bringet dem Herrn ehre seines Namens
. Cost is $20 for adults; students will be admitted free of charge.
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Coming in October -- Pride Activities
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October 7 (Sunday) -- Pride Parade & Booth --
A
contingent from Grace will be marching in the Pride Parade on Sunday morning, October 7
th
(it's a Sunday, but you can still make the 8am service!). Line-up for the parade begins at 10am at Ross' Landing. Grace will also have a booth at the Pride Festival from 1-7pm on the 7
th
, and we're looking for volunteers to help staff it (allies welcome!). Contact Jerry Draper (
jmd0712@yahoo.com
) for the parade meeting spot or to sign up for a shift at the booth.
Saturday, October 13
th
-- Pride Mass at 5:30pm
at
Grace Episcopal Church
-- Grace will host a Pride Mass on Saturday, October 13th at 5:30pm. We invite any and all LGBTQ+ folks and allies to join us for a service of healing and celebration, and we would love to have you bring your friends and neighbors, as well. We invite you to participate as ushers, acolytes, readers or singers (we want a big parade for the procession!). Because this service falls outside the realm of our regular Sunday Rota, Sean McEwen will be helping to coordinate acolytes, readers and ushers. Singers should contact Jerry Draper at
jmd0712@yahoo.com
. We'd like to have a reception for our guests that evening; please contact Rev. April (
aberends@saygrace.net
), if you're willing to help with that act of hospitality.
Join us as we extend God's love and welcome to our LGBTQ+ neighbors!
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Grace has a new Card Ministry! We are asking for any unused cards that you may have lying around your house. Blank Cards. Holiday cards. Birthday cards. Get Well cards. Sympathy cards. Any card that is clean, usable, and not written in. We also need pens, markers, gel pens, heavy paper and envelopes, stencils, paste, basically anything you don’t use that might be perfect for making cards. And of course we would welcome stamps and new cards.
Please gather up your donations, being sure that cards are paired with their envelopes, and place them in the container in the narthex.
We will begin collections on Sunday, 9/23
. We appreciate anything you can donate to help us further this ministry.
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Sewanee School of Theology DuBose Lectures
Sept. 26 and 27
Dr. Charles Marsh, guest lecturer for the DuBose Lectures & Alumni Gathering, began considering the religious and moral paradoxes of his own southern Protestant upbringing. He was struck by the complex ways theological commitments and convictions came into dramatic conflict in the civil rights movement in the American South. His memoir,
The Last Days: A Son’s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South
(Basic Books, 2001), is a coming of age account of a minister’s son in a small Mississippi town that was home to the Christian terrorist organization called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This lecture is the first in a three-year series of DuBose Lectures on racial reconciliation.
Details here
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A Contemplative Approach to Spirituality and Sexuality
Within faith communities, perhaps no other topic provokes such heated debate as sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Join us for this two-day workshop at beautiful
St. Mary's Sewanee
as we engage in healthy and honest discussions around spirituality and sexuality, with the goal of enhancing the capacity of participants—spiritual directors, clergy leaders, or laypersons of any denomination—to discuss issues of faith and sexuality. We will not attempt to convince one another to adopt any view but rather offer a safe and sacred space to share knowledge, and to engage in open and honest dialogue. Tools will be provided for participants to engage in healthy discussion around sex, sexuality, and spirituality.
When: October 4, 2018
Where: St. Mary’s Sewanee (770 St. Mary’s Lane, Sewanee, TN)
The workshop will commence the morning of October 4 and will conclude that evening.
Tuition: $129 through September 5; $160 from Sept. 6
onward
Lodging at St. Mary’s for the night of October 3 may be purchased separately.
Register at http://beeckencenter.sewanee.edu/events/contemplative-spirituality-2018
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Endowment Committee (Merritt Room) -- Sunday, Sept. 23, 9:00 a.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 8:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, Diana McMurray, Dick McGee; Intercessor, Mairi Wright; Chalice, Jim Dorris; Acolytes, Thomas Lane; Ushers, Andy Lane, Rick Jones; Greeter, Jean Williams
At the 10:45 a.m. service:
Lectors, Merilee Milburn, Stephen Jones; Intercessor, Janet McCollough; Chalice, Cathy Stone, Edith Snider; Oblations, Ann and Frank Watkins; Acolytes, Blake Rougeau, Ouisi Hamilton, Jerry Draper; Lead Usher, Renee Tracy; Greeter, Anne Curtis; Webcast (camera, sound), Richard Lanham, Augie Sevart
Lectionary Readings
Ecclesiasticus 43:1-2, 6-7,9-12,27-28; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37
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