THIS WEEK’S READINGS

Acts 16:9-15, Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5, Psalm 67, John 14:23-29 

THIS WEEK'S WORSHIP SCHEDULE

Sunday
9 AM The Children's Service
10 AM The Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (bulletin)

Wednesday
9 AM The Holy Eucharist

Thursday, May 29 - Ascension
7 PM online service (bulletin)
Where: Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8451295802 Meeting ID: 845 129 5802

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, , Rae Palladino, Dave, Thomas Petrullo, Daniela Parisi, Michael Shumway, Nancy Mohr, Chris Spilker, Gina DeMarsico, Suzanne Morris, Lauren Rosenthal, Charlotte Wilson, John Whitlock, and Gaylord Hitchcock, priest.

For those celebrating birthdays especially Eric Gardner (5/27) and Christopher Mueller (5/27) and those celebrating anniversaries especially Theresa and Akinola Okunlola (5/28).

For those receiving the sacrament of Baptism on June 22: Emma May Flynn and Charlotte Brendel Cox.

For those who have died especially Barbara Rohr (5/20), Richard Landi, (5/21), Melvin H. Cole (5/25), Mabel A. Markert (5/25), Walter Hardwick (5/26), Evan Alicakos (5/27), Elizabeth Felegara (5/27), Dr. John R. Williams (5/28), Anna Van Antwerp (5/28), Ena Hollands (5/29), Persis M. Pomeroy (5/29), Charles W. Scott, priest (5/29), Anne Witte (5/29), Henry A. Zinner (5/29), Lulu Friest (5/31), Elizabeth M. James (5/31), and Alice B. Van Saun (5/31).

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

Antonio Brugnoli, acolyte
Gene Muller, usher
Barbara Tait, Sunday School
Gene Muller, reader
Leslie Bisdale, altar guild
Paula Ricca, coffee hour
Larry Sunden and Trish Landi, counters