THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT - March 26, 2023 | |
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Our rector, vestry, lay leaders, and congregation, Lainie Murrell, our postulant to the diaconate; Robert and Donna Weber, Gerald and Marjorie Federico, Theresa Weber, John and Shirley Federico, Yasso Herath, Rick & JoAnn Stone, Lin, Vicki Hudson, Caroline Tucker, Maura McGrath, Pastor Tyler, Phyllis & Bob Holgerson, Mureedullah Hashimi, Robert and Eunice Ruffin, Peter Zakrepine, Kayden Germosen, Nancy Haile, Mari, Richard Holt, Alice Uy, Marlene Van Saders, Jan Conley, John Burton, Audrey Washington, Nicole, Nick and Rose Garza, victims of gun violence everywhere, those who are alone, and all of those lost and suffering in the aftermath of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
If there are names you would like to add to the prayer list, please contact the church office: parishoffice@gracechurchnyack.org/845-358-1297
God, our Creator, we are held in your everlasting arms,
Jesus, our Savior, we are healed by your wounded hands,
Holy Spirit, be present as we reach out to one another in love.
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Believing in God is an intellectual position. It need have no more effect in your life than believing in Freud's method of interpreting dreams or the theory that Sir Francis Brown wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Believing God is something else again. It is less a position than a journey, less a realization than a relationship. It doesn't leave you cold like believing the world is round. It stirs your blood like believing the world is a miracle. It affects who you are and what you do with your life like believing your house is on fire or somebody loves you.
Frederick Buechner in Beyond Words
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SUNDAY, MARCH 26 - The Fifth Sunday in Lent
ARE YOU ON THE WORSHIP MINISTRY SCHEDULE? CLICK HERE to check.
Readings available HERE
Collect of the Day
Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through 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 Rite1
9:30am Family Eucharist followed by church school classes
Newcomers and visitors are always welcome - CLICK for 2023 church school calendar
10:15-10:55am Weekly informal Bible study of the day’s readings,
led by Roy Kepler, in Patterson Hall each Sunday. All are welcome – join us
11:00am Holy Eucharist Rite II Also available via live-stream
Order of service for 11:00am service available HERE
Rockland County COVID risk is rated as LOW. For recommended precautions, CLICK HERE
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS | |
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EASTER FLOWER AND MUSIC MEMORIALS - April 3 Deadline
We invite your memorial gifts for special flowers and music to enhance our festive Easter celebrations. Envelopes are available in the church on Sundays or you may make a memorial gift via Giving Fire (https://gecnyack.givingfire.com/?fund=4577) Donations will be split between music and flowers. Please leave names in the comments section.
Names must be received by Monday April 3 to be included in the Easter bulletins.
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FINAL WEEK OF LENTEN OFFERINGS FROM OUR ADULT SPIRITUAL FORMATION COMMISSION
Spiritual Memoir: Writing about Our Own Sacred Moments and Journeys
Workshop led by Margie Winslow
Tuesday Evenings -- March 7, 14, 21, 28
7:15 to 8:45 pm, Patterson Hall
"Spiritual" can mean sacred, inspirational, transcendent, challenging, life-changing, or revealing moments in our lives. Participants will explore several ways to capture those experiences using some simple tools of memoir writing. No prior writing experience necessary.
Lenten Suppers
Theme: 4 Kinds of Prayer
Wednesday Evenings -- March 8, 15, 22, 29
6:30 pm supper, 7 to 8:15 program, Memorial Hall
After a simple supper of soup, salad and bread, we will focus on four types of prayer -- thanksgiving, praise, petition, and intercession -- one each week. There will be a brief introduction, followed by a hands-on activity that serves as a "window" to that type of prayer. There will also be time to reflect, share in groups, and actually pray. Our goal is to offer tools that allow us to experience prayer in a fresh way.
For Lenten Suppers CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT - Turkey Syria Earthquake Response Fund
February 21, 2023
With the support of Episcopal Relief & Development, Action by Churches Together (ACT Alliance) continues to respond to emergency needs in Syria. This work includes:
- Provision of temporary accommodation and safe shelter
- Distribution of emergency supplies including food baskets and hygiene kits
- Repairing damaged bakeries to restart bread production to provide fresh food for local communities
- Constructing solar power systems to provide electricity for schools, homes for the elderly, and to provide clean water
- Implementing cholera prevention awareness
- Conducting life skills and job training for youth
- Providing mental health and psycho-social support for people affected.
Please continue to pray for those who have been affected by the earthquake. Donations to the Türkiye (Turkey)-Syria Earthquake Response Fund will help the organization to continue to respond to communities impacted by this disaster.
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STEWARDSHIP & VIRTUAL PLATE | |
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We are so grateful to all of you who have made a pledge for 2023. Thank You.
If you would like to pledge, it is not too late! CLICK HERE to complete a 2023 pledge card.
For answers to some frequently asked questions regarding payment of your pledge, please CLICK HERE.
You'll find further instructions on using Giving Fire, our online payment platform, HERE. Note that if you already use Giving Fire for your pledge payments, you may need to update your recurring payments to reflect the amount of your 2023 pledge.
If you need assistance with GivingFire, please contact Pat Cose (pacose@msn.com)
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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".
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Days pass when I forget the mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and bells.
And then
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the throng's clamor
recedes: the mystery
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain it.
Denise Levertov in Sands of the Well
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