THIS WEEK’S READINGS

Acts 9:36-43, Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30

THIS WEEK'S WORSHIP SCHEDULE

10 AM The Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (bulletin)

Wednesday
9 AM The Holy Eucharist

MOTHERS' DAY THIS SUNDAY . . . Flowers on the altar honor our own Grand Dame, Theresa Peter, and all Mothers on this day. Continue to celebrate mothers, daughters, sisters & friends by joining us for a special coffee hour after mass. Thanks go to Patricia Landi and Leslie Bisdale. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL . . . is held at 10 AM each Sunday for grade school age children (kindergarten to 5th grade). After their lesson and activity, the children will join the congregation for communion.

ABOUT EASTERTIDE . . . The season of Easter is the celebration of the central truth of the Christian faith, that Christ is risen from the dead.  It is an historical fact that Jesus was crucified.  It is the core of the Christian faith that he rose from the dead.  But in the liturgical tradition of the Church, these are not things of the past or abstract theories.  The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is remembered and made present in our worship, and manifested in our common life today and always.

Grace Church follows the tradition of the Church in celebrating Easter for fifty days: from the Great Vigil of Easter through the Day of Pentecost. During this season Alleluias are multiplied, fasting and abstinence is suspended, and the general confession is omitted from the liturgy.

“Jesus Christ, yesterday and today, the Beginning and the End, Alpha and Omega.
His are all times and all ages. To him be glory and dominion through all eternity."

During Eastertide we will sing the Sequence, Victimae Paschale laudes, which dates from the 11th century and is one of only four medieval sequences to survive the liturgical revisions of the Council of Trent (a fifth was added in the 18th century).

OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR . . . . the sick and those in need, especially The Rev. James Warnke, priest,  Gary Stubbs, Nancy, Rae Palladino, Robert Young,Sr., Jennifer, Haiyan, Dave, Thomas Petrullo, Daniela Parisi, Michael Shumway, Greg Hutchinson, Catherine Gooch, Larry Toppin, Howard Goldin, Chris Spilker, Lexi Manning, Gina DeMarsico, Christian Davis, Shawn Davis, Suzanne Morris, Lauren Rosenthal, Charlotte Wilson, Rich Landi, John Whitlock, and Gaylord Hitchcock, priest.

For those celebrating birthdays and those celebrating anniversaries.

For those receiving the sacrament of Baptism on June 22: Emma May Flynn, daughter of Ashley and Connor Flynn, and Charlotte Brendel Cox, daughter of Danielle and Glenn Cox.

For those who have died especially Erma Bracker (5/11), John "Jack" Waneck (5/11), Isabelle Mogenson (5/11), Violet Felton (5/12), Lyman Hager (5/12), Mary Elizabeth Wardlaw (5/12), Monica Wilson (5/13), Timothy O'Leary (5/13), Peter J. Hitchcock (5/14), Murray Griffiths (5/15), Dorothy Palmer (5/15), Sarah Konsmeyer (5/16), Lulu Doremus (5/17), Lucille Finnegan (5/17), Harry Houghton (5/17), and Eleanor Reinhard (5/18).

PRAYER LIST REQUESTS . . . To add any names to the parish prayer list, please send an email to kmaccourt@gmail.com with the name of the person to be prayed for, your name and a brief description of the person’s health or other situation (note if long-term or chronic).  Names are listed for four weeks and then rotate off, but they can be added again as needed.  If you have questions, please speak with the wardens or Father Anthony.

Thank you to our volunteers for this Sunday

Warren Hirstius, acolyte
Akin Okunlola, usher
Erin Murphy, Sunday School
Anne Palmer, reader
Trish Landi and Ingrid Davis, altar guild
Ingrid Davis and Beth Storz, coffee hour
Larry Sunden and Tom Bisdale, counters