O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

THIS WEEK'S READINGS

Hosea 5:15-6:6, Psalm 50:7-15, Romans 4:13-25, Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

Sunday

The Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (bulletin)

Information meeting about the Good Book Club study group following today's service

Wednesday
9 AM The Holy Eucharist

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 THE SEASON AFTER PENTECOST . . . The Season after Pentecost is the “ordinary time” of the Church, the time of the Church’s pilgrimage on her way to the Kingdom of God. During these weeks between Pentecost and Advent the Church explores her life, role and place in the narrative that began with Creation (and the fall) and leads to the Redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ and the empowerment of the Church by the Holy Spirit on Pentecost to be Christ’s Body, carrying out Christ’s mission, until his coming again.

Thank you to our volunteers for this Sunday

Leslie Bisdale, acolyte
Antonio Brugnoli, usher
Erin Murphy, Sunday School
Daisy Toppin, reader
Ingrid Davis and Trish Landi, altar guild
Barbara Tait, coffee hour
Larry Sunden and Trish Landi, counters

ADULT EDUCATION AT GRACE FOR THIS SUMMER . . . 

This summer, we'll be reading through three of Paul's letters together:

• 1 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians

• Philippians

The Good Book Club - an offering of Forward Movement - is simple. You can follow the reading list online or follow along with your own Bible at home. There is an online component and we will meet in person on select Sundays beginning June 7. Please let Fr. Anthony know if you are interested and for more information.

Online Bible Study - Thursdays at 3pm ET. Mark your calendars for our summer Bible study, where we'll wrestle with Paul's words and look for the blessing in them. Hosted by Miriam McKenney (Missioner for Beloved Community, Diocese of Southern Ohio) and theRev. Kelli Joyce (PhD candidate in Theology at Vanderbilt University).

Our first Bible Study will be on Thursday, June 11. 
Click here to access the Microsoft Teams meeting.

 If you click on the link below for the online reading list, you can also subscribe to the list and receive weekly reminders of the reading with an accompanying video. These weekly emails will come out on Wednesday and preview the readings for the following week.

Online reading list

Here is a sample of the first reading and video:

1 Corinthians 1-8

Reflection by Miriam Willard McKenney

I want you to be free from anxieties. 1 Corinthians 7:32a

When was the last time you wrote a letter of encouragement to someone?
(Listening to the sound of crickets chirp in my own brain)I find that due to modern technology, I speak my encouragement much more than I write it. That's a shame, really, because if I wrote those encouraging words down, they would have a more lasting impact than speaking them into the phone to one of my daughters who needs them the most.This daughter has always needed me a little more in this way than the other two. Due to anxiety, new situations, or whatever the case may be, self-doubt, fear, destructive thoughts, and more can overtake her thinking. For any of us, it’s often easiest to stay on the right path when a person is with you. And when that person leaves and you’re not hearing the messages they share with you consistently, you “lose the plot,” as the kids say.After having a rough time living on the West Coast, this daughter recently moved from Seattle to Ypsilanti, Michigan. She’s now working as a garden manager on a farm that supports community members in growing their own gardens with grant funding. She’s actually building gardens for people! It’s so beautiful. She has a master’s in landscape architecture from UM, and she’s certainly  using those skills in this work. But sometimes she feels like a failure or like she's not living up to what she went to school for. So she’ll text me or call me, voicing these doubts, and I will remind her who she is. Sometimes I remind her of things she did in high school, working for Cincinnati Parks or the Civic Garden Center. “Oh yeah,” she’ll say. “I forgot I did that.”Like the people in Corinth, who Paul heard needed some encouragement and redirection, sometimes we need people to reconnect us with ourselves. Sometimes, when we lose the plot, stray away from God, from Jesus, and from our Spirits, we need a Paul to get us back on track. Sometimes we need to give very specific instructions and directions, and the letter needs to be very long, as is Paul’s first  letter to the Corinthians! How can you be a Paul to someone? What are you already doing that you can capture differently to make it more permanent?

Watch the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHf8klCCc4&t=2s

BibleProject is back with a very informative video about 1 Corinthians! You’re encouraged to get the backstory by reading Acts 18, and learn how this letter is broken down into five sections. If you went to seminary this will be old news but if like me, you didn’t, you’ll learn some things and be prepared for the readings to come. Even if you did go to school and learn about scripture, I hope you’ll think the drawings are cool!

Book of 1 Corinthians Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (from the Bible Project)

Pray

Almighty God, you sent your Son Jesus Christ to reconcile the world to yourself: We praise and bless you for those whom you have sent in the power of the Spirit to preach the Gospel to all nations. We thank you that in all parts of the earth a community of love has been gathered together by their prayers and labors, and that in every place your servants call upon your Name; for the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours for ever. Amen.
(Book of Common Prayer, p. 838)

About the author:

Miriam Willard McKenney is a child of God who fiercely loves her husband, David, and their three adult daughters. She serves as Missioner for Beloved Community for the Diocese of Southern Ohio. She's also a professor of children's literature at Xavier University. Miriam loves to spend time outdoors all year, as nature has gifts to give us every day.

Welcome to the Good Book Club 2026 - Summer with Paul. Thank you for joining us on this journey with God’s word.

For more information, visit goodbookclub.org.

OUR PRAYERS ARE ASKED FOR . . . the sick and those in need, especially Anna Maida, Amy Bryant, Audrey Pfranger, Wesley Endo, Theresa Peter, Kristi-Ann McGrath, Carol Reynolds, Chris Nordone, Adam Strauss, Jennifer Wright, Francis Royer, Mariam Kamal, Ann Hopper, Dave D'Orazio, Mitch Mann, Thomas Petrullo, Daniela Parisi, Chris Spilker, Suzanne Morris, Lauren and Callie Manlapig, Charlotte Wilson, John Whitlock, and Gaylord Hitchcock, sometime rector of Grace Church.

For those celebrating birthdays especially Cynthia Waneck (6/8) and Patricia Landi (6/12) and those celebrating anniversaries especially Beth & Shawn Storz (6/7).

For those who have died especially E. Hilton Clinch, Sr. (6/7), Frank de Haven (6/7), Mary Elizabeth Hunter (6/7), Lillian Knight (6/7), Edmund J. Mueller (6/7), Mary Scaffa (6/7), Peter C. Tinning (6/7), Marian Tremble (6/7), Frank Reiser, Jr. (6/8), Henry Bell (6/9), Hazel M. Law (6/9), Dorothy Ohlfest (6/9), Charles Hollister (6/10), Lillian K. Moore (6/10), Eliza F. Wood (6/10), Henry Hataier (6/11), Harold Louis Wright, Bishop (6/11), Joseph Cosetti (6/13), and Gladys Randle (6/13).

Flowers on the altar this Sunday are given to the glory of God and in memory of Edmund J. Mueller.

PRAYER LIST REQUESTS . . . To add any names to the parish prayer list, please send an email to this address 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.