The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost - 7.17.2022 |
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Our vestry, lay leaders, and congregation as we journey together on the search process for a new rector; Lainie Murrell, our postulant to the diaconate; Ian Cochran, Barbara and Peter dePinto, Carol Streichert, JoAnn Stone, Chris Mitchell, Bob, Ginny, Maura McGrath, Gerald and Marjorie Federico, Bob and Donna Weber, Bill & Theresa Weber, Yasso Herath, John and Shirley Federico, Robert Michael Weber, John Pluhowski, Margaret Fulmor Wagner, Margie Winslow, Diana Grace, Al and Carol Lalli, Bill & Lois Steinmann, Jean B., Lynn Johnson, Kim Hewlett, Maude M, Giuseppe Cristofalo, Carmela Cristofalo, Carmelo Cristofalo, Thomas Sproviero, Domenico Fragale, Marianina Fragale, Peter Zakrepine, Ileya Robinson, Sztyk Family, Drozdyk family, William, Ian, Jean, Stephen Yaw, Gloria Karpinsky, Tasha, Melissa Frustaci, Gina Lacey, Shirley Chalke, Amy Miller, David, Suzanne, Diane Churchill. Victims of gun violence everywhere
FLOWER MEMORIALS Helen & Joseph Pribyl, Mildred & Milton Steinhauer, and Berrtha D. Post
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Thomas Wolfe, in “You Can’t Go Home Again”, writes,
“To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.” We have to “lose” and “leave”—“unless the grain of wheat dies …” The kinship of God won’t come unless we shake things up—to “lose the earth you know”—to bark up the wrong tree, and to propose something new.
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Sunday, July 17 - The Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Collect of the Day
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
8:00am Holy Eucharist, Rite I
10:00am Holy Eucharist Rite II
Also available via livestream
Order of service for 10:00am service available HERE
WELCOME:
Jan Valentine will be our organist through Labor Day while Brandon Beachamp is on summer leave.
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Announcements & Ongoing Programs |
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CPR CLASS AT GRACE
Anyone wishing to sign up for a CPR course at Grace on Tuesday July 26 6-9:00pm, please get in contact with Heidi Hill by Monday, 7/18 to register. If we do not have people for a full class we will have to cancel and reschedule for the fall.
Vestry members, if you haven't, please RSVP for Stop the Bleed class on Thursday, July 21 at 6:30pm before the vestry meeting.
Thank you.
Heidi
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FROM OUR ADULT SPIRITUAL FORMATION COMMISSION: |
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JEANETTE MATTHEWS (March 27, 1937 - January 28, 2020)
We will celebrate the life of Jeanette Matthews here at Grace on Sunday, August 14 at 1:00pm. The Rev. A. Meigs Ross will be celebrant. We invite everyone to join us for this joyful remembrance of Jeanette, whose original service was put on hold due to the pandemic.
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Our Virtual Offering Plate
Please keep your pledge current!
To help ensure continuity for the church and our outreach programs to the community, please keep your pledge current if you are able, or make one-time donations as you would on Sunday. You can mail a check to us at 130 First Avenue, Nyack, NY 10960 or use our Virtual Offering Plate to make an online gift. Use the drop down menu under "FUND" to choose "Other Gifts" or "Pledge Payments".
We are so grateful for your support.
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Hymn For The Hurting
by Amanda Gorman
Everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed and strange,
Minds made muddied and mute.
We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.
And yet none of it is new;
We knew it as home,
As horror,
As heritage.
Even our children
Cannot be children,
Cannot be.
Everything hurts.
It’s a hard time to be alive,
And even harder to stay that way.
We’re burdened to live out these days,
While at the same time, blessed to outlive them.
This alarm is how we know
We must be altered —
That we must differ or die,
That we must triumph or try.
Thus while hate cannot be terminated,
It can be transformed
Into a love that lets us live.
May we not just grieve, but give:
May we not just ache, but act;
May our signed right to bear arms
Never blind our sight from shared harm;
May we choose our children over chaos.
May another innocent never be lost.
Maybe everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed & strange.
But only when everything hurts
May everything change.
As posted in the New York Times on May 27, 2022
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