The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost - 7.25.2021 |
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Oh God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your son. Look now with compassion on the entire human family; and particularly this part of the family, in the United States, and those in our nation’s capital; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish your purposes on earth; that, in your good time, all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heavenly throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
For the Human Family, Book of Common Prayer, p. 815
PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Bob & Donna Weber, Mickey Federico, Peter Federico, Yasso Herath, Peter Lubeck, Catherine Lubeck, John and Shirley Federico, Bill Weber, Ian, Jean, Al and Carol Lalli, Peter Zakrepine, Russell Fernando, Rislyn Joseph, Ria Meade, Peter Foley, Rosmarie Buri, Ellie Hafstad, Kate Scarmato and family, Rita Chapparo, Eliot Kloehn, Joseph, Nancy, Lisa,John Riffle & Family, Dr. Ian Cochran, Robert Attucks Ruffin, Jr., Michelle Kenny, Staff and residents of Murphy House, Toni McCarthy, Malcolm Marsh and family, Christine Churchill Kenneth, Nellie Ayala, Yakari Montalvo, Kathy Bettis, Maura McGrath, Joanna, the Ceccolini Family, Karin, Tim, Daisy, Alice Dean, Ryan M., Bernice Robinson, Clayton Sauer, Barbara and Peter dePinto, Neil & Andrea S., Janice Lewis,Connor V. Kathy DeVita, K.L., Corene and Tom, Jim Cochran,Alan, Shannon Jeffries, Alice Dean, Betty Perry, Ray, Kira Walmer
REST IN PEACE: Parishioner Alan Frae died in January. There will be a celebration of his life at Grace on Saturday, July 31 at 11:00am.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an “accident”, but a divine choice. It is important to realize how often we have had chances to be grateful and have not used them. When someone is kind to us, when an event turns out well, when a problem is solved, a relationship restored, a wound healed, these are very concrete reasons to offer thanks… When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. What fascinates me so much is that every time we decide to be grateful, it will be easier to see new things to be grateful for. Gratitude begets gratitude, just as love begets love.
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COLLECT FOR THE NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we lose not the things eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
This Sunday, July 25
The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
8:00am - Holy Eucharist
10:00am - Holy Eucharist
The 10:00am order of service is available to download HERE
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SUMMER CHOIR THIS WEEK
Our Summer Choir is once again gathering every other week through September 12. If you love to sing...or are choral-curious...show up at 9:20am in the organ loft and learn a simple piece to be sung at the 10:00am service. No pressure. No commitment. No vestments! Just music. July 25, August 8* & 22 and September 5.
(* August 8 Summer Choir will augment the Grace Church Choir for Fr. Owen's last Sunday)
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CLICK HERE for the latest Diocesan notice re COVID protocols
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Announcements & Ongoing Programs |
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Summer Schedule Now Underway
Sunday Services are at 8 & 10:00am
One service only on August 8
Office Hours are M-Th 9:00am - 3:00pm (excluding 12-1:00pm)
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TO REGISTER FOR THE SERVICE & RECEPTION
AND FOR DONATIONS TO RECTOR'S PURSE
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REMEMBER YOUR FOOD DONATIONS FOR PEOPLE TO PEOPLE ON SUNDAYS
Food donations for People to People decline during the summer, but the need remains constant. When you come to church please bring a non-perishable food item to leave in the basket at the entry to the church. Peanut butter, tuna fish and cereal are greatly appreciated “
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - Grace's Kitchen
Grace Church serves free breakfast every Thursday from 7-8:00am. For the past year we have been serving take out meals, but in July we will return to indoor dining, where teams of volunteers prepare breakfast and serve guests at tables. There are 10 teams that rotate. Volunteers are placed on a team and therefore the commitment is only once every 10 weeks, from 6-9:00am. Older kids are welcome for community service hours. If you would like to volunteer, please email Kim Cross at kim.cross@nyackcenter.org THANK YOU!!!
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ANTI-RACISM COMMISSION FORMING Your chance to get in on the ground floor.
Grace Church Nyack is forming an anti-racism committee. All are invited to a formational meeting. We will seek to hear God’s call to take action to end racism. We will educate ourselves to understand that racism is embedded in the daily life of all Americas. We will explore the ways in which we can become an active part of the struggle to end racism… think Jesus throwing the money changers out of the Temple This meeting is not a presentation or workshop. It is an opportunity to form our own ways of understanding. Your input is needed to pick a day, time and meeting method (in-person or zoom). We also need a name. Bring at least one suggestion to kick off the brain storming
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BROWN BAG AND A BIBLE Join us via Zoom on Thursdays and Sundays
Brown Bag and a Bible continue Thursdays at noon and Sundays at 2:00pm in its new virtual format via ZOOM and led by Pat Reynolds. ALL ARE WELCOME.
As always the sessions will focus on the readings for the week. The series will continue for the next five weeks. If you'd like to join, contact Pat (reynolcw@gmail.com) for the ZOOM link.
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Our Virtual Offering Plate
Please keep your pledge current over the summer!
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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Leave the dishes.
Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator
and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor.
Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster.
Throw the cracked bowl out and don't patch the cup.
Don't patch anything. Don't mend. Buy safety pins.
Don't even sew on a button.
Let the wind have its way, then the earth
that invades as dust and then the dead
foaming up in gray rolls underneath the couch.
Talk to them. Tell them they are welcome.
Don't keep all the pieces of the puzzles
or the doll's tiny shoes in pairs, don't worry
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
matches, at all.
Except one word to another. Or a thought.
Pursue the authentic-decide first
what is authentic,
then go after it with all your heart.
Your heart, that place
you don't even think of cleaning out.
That closet stuffed with savage mementos.
Don't sort the paper clips from screws from saved baby teeth
or worry if we're all eating cereal for dinner
again. Don't answer the telephone, ever,
or weep over anything at all that breaks.
Pink molds will grow within those sealed cartons
in the refrigerator. Accept new forms of life
and talk to the dead
who drift in though the screened windows, who collect
patiently on the tops of food jars and books.
Recycle the mail, don't read it, don't read anything
except what destroys
the insulation between yourself and your experience
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.”
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