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This Week @ All Saints'

4/26/2012

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Dear Friends in Christ,

The Easter Season continues, and now we are moving into many events and activities, both here at Church and in the wider community.  Please do take a look at the various announcements in this e-mail and see if there are opportunities for service, worship or fellowship that speak to you!  Then please join in, as you can.

I hope that you all received the news earlier this week about David Temple’s death.  His funeral will be at All Saints’ on Saturday, May 5 at 10am.  Family from England will be present, as well as David and Alison’s children who are scattered across the country.  A reception will follow in the Parish House.  We are asking for contributions of finger desserts or fruit and cheese.  If you can bring something, or help with set-up, clean-up or coffee making, please respond to this e-mail.  Thank you.

And now there is some further sad news: Nancy Mink’s father, Russell Keimig, died at home this morning after a long bout with cancer.  Russ has been on our prayer list, and Nancy – of course – is on our Vestry.  The funeral will be in West Monmouth at the Doyle Veterans Cemetery, either Sunday or Monday.  Please keep Nancy, her mother and siblings, her husband Ed and their children Dan and Nick in your prayers.  May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Argyle’s Fish ‘n Chips – Thursday, May 3, from 5:30–7:30 pm. Tickets on sale this Sunday at 10 am, see Betsy Wallace.  Or download the form from our website and send it in.  Eat in or take out! $15 for adults, $8 for kids. Tell your friends and bring your neighbors for a good time with the greater Long Hill Township community. We’ll need help with selling tickets, setting up, baking desserts, and serving. Please sign up to help out as you can. Thank you! Suzanne Traub & Betsy Wallace

Confirmation - The youth and adults to be confirmed by Bishop Beckwith on May 6 in Newark will be formally sent forth with our prayers and blessing at the 10 am service on April 29.  They will then be honored in the 10 am service and at coffee hour on May 13, and given their Prayer Books.  Please be on hand for these events which are so important in the life of our parish young people and adults.  And please keep them in your prayers!

GreenFaith’s Residential Solar Energy Event will be in the held Parish Hall on Sunday, April 29 from 12:30-3:30 pm.  It takes 15 minutes. For each home that qualifies and installs panels, All Saints’ will receive $200!  The panels and installation are free to the homeowner.You reduces you energy costs, help the environment, and All Saints’ raises some funds! It is a win-win for all! You can sign-up on the sheet in the Narthex to reserve a time on April 29 to have your home assessed via Google Earth; we also take walk-ins.  Please pass this along to your friends and neighbors.  Questions? Speak with Susie Harris in the Parish Office (908) 647-0067, Roger Mederos, or Mother Vicki.

Boy Scout Flower Sale – Troop 56’s Annual Flower Sale will take place on May 5 & 6 at 1000 Valley Road in Gillette (across from Panera, Starbuck’s and Dunkin’ Donuts).  Flats of bedding plants, hanging baskets, potting soil and bird seed are all available. Beautify your yard and garden and support Troop 56!

Yarn! Yarn! We have been so productive knitting hats and scarves for the Seamen’s Church Institute; we’ve used all our supplies! We gratefully would accept any yarn you may have on hand, or new yarn. Our knitting is mostly for men so we’d love to have darker, more masculine colors. If you can help or would like to know more about this outreach project, please speak with Janet Mansfield.

Food for Friends Pantry in Dover –Please remember to bring non-perishable food to church each week. Your contributions make a difference in the lives of many!

Easter Season continues throughout the month of May. Three days of special note in the season are:
Rogation Sunday (May 13) when we ask for God’s blessing on the gardens and fields;
Ascension Day
(Thursday, May 17) marking the Risen Christ’s return to heaven;
Pentecost (Sunday, May 27) – the Fiftieth Day of Easter, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the birthday of the Church. 
Rogation and Pentecost will be celebrated on their Sundays at both services. 
Ascension Day will be celebrated on Thursday, May 17th at 7:30 pm with Evensong. This lovely service from our Anglican heritage dates back to the 16th century as is a peaceful and beautiful end to the day. It is filled with hymns, canticles, anthems and Scripture readings.  A special highlight will be our guest organist, Shea Velloso.  Please plan to come and celebrate one of the major feast days of the Church year!

Forward Day by Day (FDD) is a daily devotional published by Forward Movement, an Episcopal organization.  It features a verse of Scripture and a short meditation, along with the citations for the psalm and all three Bible readings for each day.  There is also a daily prayer request, based on the world wide Anglican Cycle of Prayer – all in a handy, pocket-sized booklet that comes out four times a year.  FDD comes in a large-print edition, as well, and now is available on the web, by e-mail and as a mobile app! http://forwardmovement.org/Today-s-Meditation/. Both the small and large-print versions are available on the table in the Narthex.  Please pick one up and use it for your own personal prayers.  The new editor, Scott Gunn, has this to say about FDD: “Since its founding in 1935, Forward Movement has worked to form true disciples.  We believe that the Episcopal Church will be vibrant when its congregations are healthy – and that congregations will be healthy when our pews are filled with disciples rather than habitual Christians.  Please pray for the whole church – The Episcopal Church, your diocese, your congregation, and your own life as a disciple.  The world has great need, and our vitality is important so that we can do the work we’ve been given to do.” [Note – the founding editor in 1935 was the Rev. Gilbert Symonds, father of our own Lois McFarland, and grandfather of Tammy Rosenthal.]

Women’s Book Group – at our May meeting we’ll be discussing Long Ride Home: A Novel by Will Allison.  We’ll gather at 7:30 pm in the Rath House on May 16.  Hope you can join us for good conversation and friendship.

Diocesan Outreach Effort - Make a difference in honor of Father's Day at a Habitat build. Wouldn’t it be cool to spend the day before Father's Day working in honor of your father by making the world a better place for another family? Saturday, June 16, 2012 will be the first annual diocesan multi-county build day of outreach, providing helping hands to Habitat projects in several of the counties in our diocese. So far there are two projects in Essex County, two in Morris County and one each in Bergen and Sussex Counties. Each project has need of about ten people. Be part of this exhilarating day helping to make the dream of home ownership come true for a family in your area -- sign up to join using the online registration form:   http://www.dioceseofnewark.org/form/habitat-build-day-2012 : For more information about this event, please contact Joe Stewart at JStewartIV@aol.com

Stewardship is about mission - God’s mission in the world, and our mission as followers of Jesus Christ. 
        ~ The Episcopal Network for Stewardship
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Worship is primary theology.  It is also home, which, as the saying goes, is the place where they have to take you in.  There is no one who is not welcome in God’s house, and no amount of human pettiness or pompous religiosity can altar that fact….The worshipping body is not a gathering of like-minded people, or those with a high degree of faith or knowledge concerning spiritual matters; I like to think that it resembles Christ’s ragged band of disciples in this manner, a diverse group with remarkable variance in personalities and attitudes Jesus…In worship, disparate people seek a unity far greater than the sum of themselves but don’t have much control over how, or if, this happens.  Recklessly, we let loose with music, and the words of hymns, the psalms, canticles and prayers.  We cast the Word of God out into the world, into each human heart, where, to paraphrase the prophet Isaiah, it needs to go to fulfill God’s purpose.  
                    ~ Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith.

Blessings,
Vicki McGrath+
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This Week @ All Saints'

4/6/2012

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Dear Friends in Christ,

Today is Maundy Thursday, the beginning of the Triuduum – that’s the Latin name for the three days that stretch from now until the Great Vigil on Easter Eve.  This is truly the holiest time of the year, and the constellation of events around which the entire rest of the Christian year moves.  During these three days we move with Jesus from the Last Supper, to his arrest and trial, his Crucifixion, death and burial.  Then on Easter we celebrate his Resurrection and triumph over death, looking forward to our own new life.

I hope and pray that wherever you are this year, you will know the blessing of God’s strong love for, and the power of life over death!
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Maundy Thursday – April 5
Seder Supper, 6:00 pm in the Parish Hall: A pot-luck meal with the traditional Jewish Seder elements that tells the story of the Passover and Exodus – for all ages.  Please bring a main dish, salad/side dish or dessert. This is an event for the whole family, so please come – even if you are free at the last minute!.

Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, 7:30 pm: This is the service that marks Jesus’ Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist.  It is a time when all Christians worldwide of any denomination gather to remember what took place in the Upper Room.  At the end of the service we strip the altar of all linens, candles and hangings to symbolize the starkness of Good Friday.

Prayer Watch, 8:30 pm - Midnight: following the Maundy Thursday service you are invited to keep watch with Jesus. We set up a small altar with the Reserved Sacrament in front of the baptismal font (an altar of repose), with plants and flowers to represent the Garden of Gethsemane.  The watch is kept until midnight, when we pray a short form of the Good Friday Morning Prayer and receive Communion from the Reserved Sacrament.  We ask individuals to sign up for 30 minute time slots.  While several people can keep watch at a time, we hope that all the time slots will be covered. This is offered as a time of personal reflection and meditation.

Good Friday – April 6
Stations of the Cross, 12 Noon: an interactive, inter-generational simple service for all ages.  As we move around the Church to mark each of the stops on Jesus’ journey to the Cross there are things to see, touch, say, sing and hear.  The service will be assisted by members of our Confirmation Class and any Middle Schoolers who would like to help.

Good Friday Liturgy, 7:30 pm: We gather in the starkness and simplicity of the Church, as at the foot of the Cross, to reflect on Jesus’ death and sacrifice for us.  There are prayers, Scripture readings and hymns.  Dr. Jody will sing the beautiful Gregorian chant hymn that is an adoration of the Cross (“Now my tongue the mystery telling”) and our friend and guest organist Shea Velloso will play an organ meditation.  Good Friday is always a difficult and uncomfortable day, but if we are present to it, our Easter celebrations will be much more powerful and joyful.

Holy Saturday – April 7
Kid’s Service, Easter Egg Hunt and Ribbon Decorating, 10 am: Our annual Easter Egg Hunt for younger children will take place on April 7 after the brief Kid’s Holy Saturday Service at 10 am.  We need some parents/grandparents to hide eggs and provide some refreshments.  Please respond via e-mail if you can help. A new feature this year (suggested by our Visual Arts Ministry) – kids in grade 5-8 are asked to come and help make ribbon streamers to decorate our parking lot for Easter! See you Saturday morning – and bring a basket!

Easter Vigil, 7:30 pm: This is the first celebration of Easter, a wonderful and beautiful service that moves us from darkness to light, from death to resurrection!  We start in the Memorial Garden with the lighting of the New Fire, followed by a candlelight procession into the Church, readings, hymns and anthems that trace the history of our salvation, we renew our baptismal vows and celebrate the first Eucharist of Easter.  As the lights come up we see the beauty of the newly decorated Church and altar.  When you come, please bring a bell to ring at the Easter Acclamation!  We will be blessed to have Shea Velloso as our guest organist for this service. There will be refreshments in the Narthex following the service.

Easter Sunday @ 8 and 10 am: Hymns, flowers, choirs, Resurrection, Eucharist and joy at both services!  Easter is the most important day in our lives as Christians.  Invite someone to Church to share it with you.

Kids’ Lenten Mite Boxes should be returned at any of the Easter services.  The monies collected will be passed on to Episcopal Relief and Development to supply medicine to babies and their mothers in needy parts of the world.  All children will be given a small flowering plant on Easter.
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Children’s Eucharist Instruction Class for kids in Grades 1 or 2 will meet on April 16, 23 and 30 (Mondays) at 4 pm with Mother Vicki in the Rath House.  Parents who want their kids to participate in learning more about our central act of worship and the sacrament of Communion should e-mail the parish office.

Green Faith to Host Residential Solar Screening Event for the Wider Community @ All Saints’ on April 29, 12:30-3:30 pm  – Interested in learning about how you might be able to have solar power installed at your house (at no cost to you), save money and benefit the Church at the same time?  Green Faith, in partnership with Google and AP Solar, will conduct a Solar Screening Event here.  There is a sign-up sheet in the Narthex if you would like you book a time slot, but you can also just walk in on the day. We’ll have more information available soon, put the date on your calendar now, and let your neighbors know that this might both interest and benefit them.

Argyle’s Fish and Chips – Save the Date: Thursday, May 3!  5:30 – 7:00 pm, $15 for adults, $8 for kids, eat in or take out. We’ll need help with selling tickets, setting up, desserts, drinks, serving, etc.  There is a sign-up sheet in the Narthex. Tell your friends and bring your neighbors for a good time with the greater Long Hill township community.

Women’s Book Group- The book for this month is The Dream by Harry Bernstein. We’ll be meeting to discuss this on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in the Rath House. 

Stewardship – In seeking the meaning of the resurrection experience, we discover the richest resources of our stewardship – the restoration of all life to the Lord. ~ The Rev. Dan Bollman, Lutheran pastor.

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Defining – Maundy Thursday

Maundy comes from
mandatum – a commandment
new delivered now by strong
and ready hands, ready to
gird and wash and wipe
both feet and lives
to show us all that
love takes lowliness
to heart and kneels most
readily, an art which also
brings those hands to breaking,
pouring, mending, being pierced
and molding, crafting endlessness
from tombs, grave wrappings,
guards and deadly fear.
     ~J. Barrie Shepherd

Blessings,
Vicki McGrath+
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The Week @ All Saints'

3/29/2012

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Dear Friends in Christ,

Thank you everyone who made the Bishop’s visit so successful this past Sunday.  Bishop Beckwith had lots of compliments for All Saints’, including the delicious refreshments which were offered at the reception.

Sunday begins our celebration of Holy Week, the most important time of the whole Christian year.  As we walk through the Holy Week journey with Jesus, we will find ourselves open to God’s love, sacrifice, blessings and meaning in new and deeper ways.  Please look at each of the items below and find ways that you can make Holy Week a time of growing faith for you. And then go one step further, and invite someone to come with you who needs to experience the love and grace of God.

The Voice Online is posted on the diocesan website: ­­­­­­­www.dioceseofnewark.org.

And in your prayers….please pray for David Temple who is in serious medical condition in the intensive care unit.
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Palm Sunday – April 1
Palms, Procession and Passion Gospel at 8 am; Palms, Bagpipe Procession and Passion Gospel at 10 am.  At the later service we’ll all gather in front of the Parish House and process around the Church, led by our piper Bill McAvoy. Once at the Church door the youngest children will go to their class in the Parish House.  All other children and adults will attend worship.

Easter Flowers – If you wish to donate flowers and plants to decorate the church for Easter in memory of a loved one in thanksgiving for a blessing, please use the envelopes in the pews and be sure to indicate the names of the people you want listed in the bulletin.  The deadline for names is April 1.

Maundy Thursday – April 5
Seder Supper, 6:00 pm in the Parish Hall: A pot-luck meal with the traditional Jewish Seder elements that tells the story of the Passover and Exodus – for all ages.  Please bring a main dish, salad/side dish or dessert and one of the seder ingredients.  Take a look at the sign-up sheet in the Narthex and let us know what you will bring.  This is an event for the whole family, so please plan to come.
Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar, 7:30 pm: This is the service that marks Jesus’ Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist.  It is a time when all Christians worldwide of any denomination gather to remember what took place in the Upper Room.  At the end of the service we strip the altar of all linens, candles and hangings to symbolize the starkness of Good Friday.
Prayer Watch, 8:30 pm - Midnight: following the Maundy Thursday service you are invited to keep watch with Jesus. We set up a small altar with the Reserved Sacrament in front of the baptismal font (an altar of repose), with plants and flowers to represent the Garden of Gethsemane.  The watch is kept until midnight, when we pray a short form of the Good Friday Morning Prayer and receive Communion from the Reserved Sacrament.  We ask individuals to sign up for 30 minute time slots.  While several people can keep watch at a time, we hope that all the time slots will be covered. This is offered as a time of personal reflection and meditation.

 Good Friday – April 6
Stations of the Cross, 12 Noon: an interactive, inter-generational simple service for all ages.  As we move around the Church to mark each of the stops on Jesus’ journey to the Cross there are things to see, touch, say, sing and hear.  The service will be assisted by members of our Confirmation Class and any Middle Schoolers who would like to help.
Good Friday Liturgy, 7:30 pm: We gather in the starkness and simplicity of the Church, as at the foot of the Cross, to reflect on Jesus’ death and sacrifice for us.  There are prayers, Scripture readings and hymns.  Dr. Jody will sing the beautiful Gregorian chant hymn that is an adoration of the Cross (“Now my tongue the mystery telling”) and our friend and guest organist Shea Velloso will play an organ meditation.  Good Friday is always a difficult and uncomfortable day, but if we are present to it, our Easter celebrations will be much more powerful and joyful.

Holy Saturday – April 7
Kid’s Service, Easter Egg Hunt and Ribbon Decorating, 10 am: Our annual Easter Egg Hunt for younger children will take place on April 7 after the brief Kid’s Holy Saturday Service at 10 am.  We need some parents/grandparents to fill and hide eggs and provide some refreshments.  A new feature this year (suggested by our Visual Arts Ministry) – kids in grade 5-8 are asked to come and help make ribbon streamers to decorate our parking lot for Easter! Please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex.
Easter Vigil, 7:30 pm: This is the first celebration of Easter, a wonderful and beautiful service that moves us from darkness to light, from death to resurrection!  We start in the Memorial Garden with the lighting of the New Fire, followed by a candlelight procession into the Church, readings, hymns and anthems that trace the history of our salvation, we renew our baptismal vows and celebrate the first Eucharist of Easter.  As the lights come up we see the beauty of the newly decorated Church and altar.  When you come, please bring a bell to ring at the Easter Acclamation!  We will be blessed to have Shea Velloso as our guest organist for this service. There will be refreshments in the Narthex following the service.

Easter Sunday @ 8 and 10 am: Hymns, flowers, choirs, Resurrection, Eucharist and joy at both services!  Easter is the most important day in our lives as Christians.  Invite someone to Church to share it with you.
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Thanks for the Taizé services goes to Dr. Jody for arranging the candlelight, music and readings which were so peaceful and refreshing all throughout Lent.

Children’s Eucharist Instruction Class for kids in Grades 1 or 2 will meet on April 16, 23 and 30 (Mondays) at 4 pm with Mother Vicki in the Rath House.  Parents who want their kids to participate in learning more about our central act of worship and the sacrament of Communion should e-mail the parish office.

Green Faith to Host Residential Solar Screening Event for the Wider Community @ All Saints’ on April 29, 12:30-3:30 pm  – Interested in learning about how you might be able to have solar power installed at your house (at no cost to you), save money and benefit the Church at the same time?  Green Faith, in partnership with Google and AP Solar, will conduct a Solar Screening Event here.  We’ll have more information available soon, but put the date on your calendar now, and let your neighbors know that this might both interest and benefit them.

Argyle’s Fish and Chips – Save the Date: Thursday, May 3!  5:30 – 7:00 pm, $15 for adults, $7.50 for kids, eat in or take out. We’ll need help with selling tickets, setting up, desserts, drinks, serving, etc.  Tell your friends and bring your neighbors for a good time with the greater Long Hill township community.

 Women’s Book Group- The book for this month is The Dream by Harry Bernstein. We’ll be meeting to discuss this on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in the Rath House. 

Stewardship – What is given to us is given to be given in return ~ Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
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Palms of Peace

Are they the green and waving fronds
of triumph at the city gate,
lively now, but soon to wither,
crumble into dust?
Or are they palms that stretch,
though smashed and broken,
to embrace this withered world
and tender it to late
yet lasting life?
     ~ J. Barrie Shepherd

Blessings,
Vicki McGrath+
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This Week@All Saints'

4/2/2011

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Dear Friends in Christ,
April is here and it’s a new month, a month that will include the holiest time of the entire year – Holy Week and Easter. The eight days from Palm Sunday to Easter Day contain the core of our faith, and the pattern of Christian life: from frustration and failure to death to resurrection and new life.  I hope that you will plan to participate in Holy Week as fully as possible as a way to renew your soul and strengthen your faith in Christ.
Tomorrow (April 3) we’ll be honoring the memory of two parishioners in our morning services.  At 8 am we’ll dedicate new Prayer Books that were purchased with funds given for the purpose by friends and family members of Delano May.  At 10 am we’ll dedicate the new altar handrail that was given in memory of Eva Moulder.  We’ll also dedicate the remainder of the Prayer Books given for Delano. I hope you can be on hand to remember and pray for these two wonderful saints who gave so much of themselves to God and to our parish.

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Family Service, April 3 at 10 am – no Sunday School classes; everyone comes to worship.  Children’s homily and birthday and anniversary prayers.

Easter Flower Donations - if you would like to donate to our Easter decorations
in memory of or in thanksgiving for someone, please put your contribution in the Easter flower envelope you’ll find in the pews & write the name(s) of the person to be honored, as well as your name.  All names will be listed in the Easter bulletins.  Donations must be received by April 10th.  Questions?  Speak to Janet Mansfield.

Youth News:
Middle School/High School Artists Needed, April 10. We need help making signs to put around town for the Fish and Chips dinner!  If you have neat writing and can copy an example, please come to coffee hour on April 10 at 11:15.  We’ll have all the materials you need.  Please let Mother Vicki or Kimberly Celeste know if you can help.

Retreat for High Schoolers, Sunday, April 17, 11:30 am-2:00 pm, Rath House
Please come to the 10 am service to celebrate Palm/Passion Sunday.
Having heard the Passion read in church we'll reflect and respond to
the passion, death and resurrection of Christ through conversation,
art, and music. Bring your iPod and we'll find music that reflects
how we feel and experience Holy Week. Please bring snacks to share,
too. Questions? Contact Beth at bethrs@mac.com or 973-615-4778.

Small Saints’ Easter Egg Hunt – Saturday, April 23, 10:15 am in the Parking Lot (following the Kid’s Holy Saturday Service at 10 am). For children in Grade 2 or younger – and their siblings!  Please sign-up on the sheet in the Narthex.  We’ll need a few parents to fill and hide plastic Easter Eggs and someone to bring some refreshments (juice, cookies, coffee).  Come and be a part of this fun All Saints’ tradition!

MaundyThursday Seder Supper – April 21, 6 pm in the Parish Hall. Pot-Luck supper with a seder plate at each table.  We’ll tell the story of the Exodus and the release of God’s people from slavery in Egypt and the ways that Christian faith connects to that experience. Come for food and fellowship as we begin our Maundy Thursday celebration.  All ages are welcome.  Sign up on the sheet in the Narthex.

Seaman’s Church Institute – We have a great group of dedicated knitters who make hats and scarves for the seafarers’ Christmas-at-Sea program.  We recently sent 23 items to Port Newark.  Thank you to all who have taken on this ministry.  If anyone else is interested in knitting, please speak to Janet Mansfield jecmans@aol.com.  Also, if anyone has unused yarn at home or would like to donate yarn for these projects please speak to Janet.  Thank you.  

Women’s Book Group – April 27, 7:30 pm.  This month’s book will be The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.  Come join the fun at the Rath House!

Fish and Chips Dinner (by Argyle of Kearny) – Thursday, May 5th, 5:30-7:30 pm, eat in or take out.  Tell your friends! And check out the sign-up sheet in the Narthex to see how you can help.  Proceeds from this dinner will go towards our Parking Lot challenge.
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You are invited to a
Gala Brunch
Sunday, May 1st
11:15 am in the Parish Hall
to launch our
Parking Lot Challenge Campaign!
Join us in meeting the challenge of our matching grant
as we make our church grounds
more safe and welcoming to the wider community.
RSVP by April 27                                                                                      Bring an appetizer, finger foods                      
allstsmill@hotmail.com                                                                                                      or dessert to share
or via the sign-up sheet in the Narthex
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Lent 2011 – Days 21, 22, 23
holy is the dish and drain
the soap and sink, and the cup and plate
and the warm wool socks, and the cold white tile
showerheads and good dry towels
and frying eggs sound like psalms
with bits of salt measured in my palm
it’s all a part of a sacrament

as holy as a day is spent
holy is the busy street
and cars that boom with passion’s beat
and the check out girl, counting change
and the hands that shook my hands today
and hymn of geese fly overhead
and spread their wings like their parents did
blessed be the dog that runs in her sleep
to chase some wild elusive thing

holy is the familiar room
and quiet moments in the afternoon
and folding sheets life folding hands
to pray as only laundry can
i’m letting go of all my fear
like autumn leaves made of earth and air
for the summer came and the summer went
as holy as the day is spent

holy is the place I stand
to give whatever small good I can
and the empty page, and the open book
redemption everywhere I look
unknowingly we slow our pace
in the shade of unexpected grace
and with grateful smiles and sad lament
as holy as a day is spent

and morning light sings “providence”
as holy as a day is spent

-          Carrie Newcomer (songwriter), “Holy as a Day is Spent”
Blessings,
Vicki McGrath+
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All Saints' Episcopal Church

 15 Basking Ridge Road, Millington NJ 07946    phone: (908) 647-0067    email: allstsmill@hotmail.com
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