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Sunday, 4/5, 9 AM
Palm Sunday Morning Prayer
Rev. Amy Denney Zuniga, preaching and presiding.
Sunday, 4/5, 10 AM
Virtual Coffee Hour!
Join other Grace parishioners by Zoom to catch up and check in. Myles Clark hosts.
Sunday, 4/5, 10 AM
Virtual Youth Group via Zoom
(see below)
Sunday, 4/5, 4 PM
Live-Stream Spanish Palm Sunday Service
Rev. Amy Denney Zuniga preaching and presiding.
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Sunday Morning Worship
will be held online.
There are four ways to participate in live worship: Facebook Live,
Zoom browser, Zoom App or Zoom conference call (no computer needed).
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Because of the shelter-in-place order, Rev. Amy and those helping to lead worship will be participating from their homes and you'll see them on your screen, with the bulletin also displayed so you can follow along. We're all learning about online worship together! We’ve made some changes that will make it easier to hear. Hang in there... it’s going to take some practice before we're confident in our new skills.
There are four ways to participate in worship: Live options are: Facebook Live, Zoom video, or Zoom conference call (no computer needed). Later you can view just the sermon or the
entire service on YouTube.
Calling in?
Simply 1 408 638 0968 and enter the Webinar ID when prompted: 306 596 280
Need Help? Sunday Morning Tech Support: 9 am to 11 am.
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Saturday, 4/4, 6 PM
Zoom practice session. David will be offering help to those wanting to participate in, or host, a Zoom meeting.
Sunday, 4/5, 9 AM
Live-Stream Palm Sunday Morning Prayer, Rev. Amy Denney Zuniga, preaching and presiding.
Sunday, 4/5, 10 AM
Virtual Coffee Hour! Join other Grace parishioners by Zoom (call in or click link from a computer, tablet or smartphone) to catch up and check in. Hosted by Myles Clark. If you are participating in the service by Zoom,
you’ll be in the right place for the Zoom coffee hour!
Sunday, 4/5, 10 AM
Virtual Youth Group via Zoom (
l
ink sent to youth group members.)
Sunday, 4/5, 4 PM
Live-Stream Spanish Palm Sunday Service, Rev. Amy Denney Zuniga preaching and presiding.
Monday, 4/6, 4 PM
Weekly Connection Meeting for Parents
Thursday, 4/9: 6 PM
Maundy Thursday “Virtual Pot-Luck” to kick off our Great Three Days celebrations at home.
Sunday, 4/12, 9 AM
Easter Sunday, Rev. Amy Denney Zuniga, preaching and presiding.
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Options for Palm Sunday Home Worship
Especially for families!
Rev. Amy and her family will be sharing their Palm Sunday procession with us on Sunday. Prepare your own Palm Sunday procession by cutting branches from around your house (they don’t have to be palms!) and preparing instruments, noisemakers, etc so you can march around your living room!
Learn more about the background of Palm Sunday in this talk given by Dr. Susan Calkin, Rev. Wendy Howe, and Ms. Edie Kausch earlier this year (part 1 below,
part 2
here
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Download and print this Map of Jerusalem-- you can follow along, mark or color the map as Rev. Amy takes us through the last week of Jesus’ earthly life. Not just for kids!
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Pray With and Add to Grace’s Interactive Stations of the Cross:
These are Stations of the Cross we will create together. They include the fifteenth station: The Resurrection. Add your own images, prayers, meditations, poetry (everyone with the link above has edit access; simply type or cut and paste images.). Please use images with creator’s permission and attribute words to their author (including you!). Check back and know that as we create and pray these stations, we pray together for the life of God’s world. Thanks to Edie Kausch for getting us started and to Linda Laing for sharing her art.
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Your Great Three Days Worship Kit is Ready!
We will be celebrating Holy Week “together apart” in each of our homes this year.
families and links to the wider Church.
renewal, and hope. Happy Holy Week!
“Watch and Pray”
with Jesus Grace has a great tradition of an all-night prayer watch beginning
Maundy Thursday night and lasting until midday Good Friday. People sign up to “watch and pray”
in the sanctuary with Jesus during the time of his arrest, trial, and crucifixion.
at home. More than one person may sign up for a given hour, but we hope to fill the slots!
Prayer resources from Helen Christianson will be provided by download.
Zoom Potluck Maundy Thursday, 4/9 at 6 PM
We’ll be kicking off our celebration of the Great Three Days at home with a Zoom potluck. Just make your dinner, set up your computer or device on zoom with the camera pointing at the table, and voila! You can also sign on to see others but not be visible. We will share in the beginning of the Maundy Thursday prayers together this way, celebrate the rest of the Great Three Days on our own at home, and then come together again for our Easter Morning celebration at 9 AM.
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"Don’t forget to pray for your Grace Church community every day at 7PM
… we are praying for you! Can’t you just feel it??
!"
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Blessing of Palms
by Jan Richardson
This blessing can be heard coming from a long way off.
This blessing is making its steady way up the road toward you.
This blessing blooms in the throats of women, springs from the hearts of men,
tumbles out of the mouths of children.
This blessing is stitched into the seams of the cloaks that line the road, etched into
the branches that trace the path, echoes in the breathing of the willing colt,
the click of the donkey’s hoof against the stones.
Something is rising beneath this blessing. Something will try to drown it out.
But this blessing cannot be turned back, cannot be made to still its voice,
cannot cease to sing its praise of the One who comes
along the way
it makes.
Read more of Jan Richardson’s Palm Sunday reflections and see her art at
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Rev. Amy and family have adapted their mealtime prayer to 'elbows' instead of
hand-holding!
The prayer is: "Thank you God for hearts to love, for wind and sunny weather. Thank you God for this our food, and that we are together. Amen."
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Important Reminders:
- Please Check Napa COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disasters)’s website for “one stop shopping” on COVID-19 resources www.napavalleycoad.org
- Napa County’s website has the most current information about case count, testing resources, etc.
- County of Napa COVID-19
- Due to Napa County’s Shelter-in-Place order, the campus is completely closed for all and the sanctuary locked. The labyrinth and grounds will remain open for safe social distance walking!
- All in-person church events, including Sunday services, youth group and atrium, have been suspended for the time being. We are moving online! Watch your e-news for resources and ways to connect in “virtual church.”
- If your group would like to get set-up to meet on a digital platform or via conference call, please contact David Foushee at office@grace-episcopal.org.
- Staff are working remotely and are available via email and cell/home phone. Office phone messages are checked regularly: (707) 963-4157.
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In order to stay closer digitally while we cannot be together physically, we will be increasing our Enews to twice weekly. You can unsubscribe at any time. Know someone who should join our virtual church?
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St. Helena CA 94574
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