The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost - 8.7.2022 |
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Almighty God, who created us in your own image: Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice in our communities and among the nations, to the glory of your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. Collect for Social Justice - Book of Common Prayer
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, Tanya Perez-Rock, Nancy Collins, Rebecca Gnann, Elizabeth M., Russell Fernando, Gilberto Rodriguez and family. Victims of gun violence everywhere
FLOWER MEMORIALS
Gertrude & George Berckmueller, Douglas Palmer
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It’s Hard to Love
Dorothy Day
It is not love in the abstract that counts. We have loved the workers, the poor, the oppressed, but we have not loved “personally.” It is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking. Have you ever read Tolstoy’s Resurrection? He tells of political prisoners in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution for the love of their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia. It is never the brothers right next to us, but the brothers in the abstract that are easy to love.
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Sunday, August 7 - The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost - The Rev. Alon White
SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN THE AIR CONDITIONED MEMORIAL HALL
Please help by returning your chair to the hallway racks after the service!
Collect of the Day
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and 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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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 originally scheduled service was put on hold due to the pandemic.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 at 10:00am
Join us in Memorial Hall at 10:00am on Saturday, August 13 as we assemble meals to be distributed to the homeless poor of New York City through Midnight Run. If you are able to bring necessary food items (ex: lunch meat, cheese, bread, cookies, etc.), please email Heidi at nyack13@gmail.com to make sure you are included on the list.
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SAVE THE DATE!
Coming on August 31 from ASF: A group reading of the short play “Lazarus,” by Rowan Williams, moderated by actress Roberta Nobleman. Details to follow.
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LAMBETH CONFERENCE 2022 - July 26 - August 8, 2022
Many of our U.S. bishops are currently in Canterbury, UK for the 15th Lambeth Conference, an international meeting of Anglican bishops that occurs roughly every ten years. The conference discusses church and world affairs and the global mission of the Anglican Communion for the decade ahead. The relationship of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion is complicated and often tension-filled, but this meeting has been billed as an opportunity for prayer and reflection, fellowship and dialogue on church and world affairs. For those interested, there is much more available via reporting from The Episcopal News Service, the ENS Facebook page and the Lambeth Conference site.
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REMEMBER YOUR PEOPLE TO PEOPLE DONATIONS - THE NEED IS GREAT
When you come to church please bring non-perishable food items to leave in the basket in the narthex. Peanut butter, tuna fish and cereal are greatly appreciated. If you don’t make it to church, you can always drop items off during office hours.
GIFT CARDS & LAUNDRY SUPPORT NEEDED
Occasionally individuals and families come to us with very basic immediate needs, like food and diapers for their children. When possible we try to help with small gift cards for stores like ShopRite, Target, or Walgreen’s. We’ve also found that help with laundry needs is appreciated, and have put together bags with quarters/soap pods/dryer sheets.We welcome donations of gift cards or materials/change laundry packages so we are prepared when the need arises — just bring them to the office or drop cards in the plate on Sundays.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED THESE EFFORTS IN THE PAST
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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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Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star
would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons.
The equivalent weight of how much railway
it would take to get a third of the way to the sun.
It’s the collective weight of every animal
on earth. Times three.
Six billion tons sounds impossible
until I consider how it is to swallow grief—
just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed
a neutron star. How dense it is,
how it carries inside it the memory of collapse.
How difficult it is to move then.
How impossible to believe that anything
could lift that weight.
There are many reasons to treat each other
with great tenderness. One is
the sheer miracle that we are here together
on a planet surrounded by dying stars.
One is that we cannot see what
anyone else has swallowed.
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