WELCOME VISITORS! We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our visitors today. Whether you live in our area and decided to worship with us today or if you are visiting from out of town, we offer you a warm Georgian welcome! There are visitor cards in most of the pews and we ask that you fill one out and give it to the Greeters at the door or simply drop it in the offering plate. We’d love to see you again. Our Sunday Mass is at 10am. Details are on our website, www.stgeorgesschenectady.org. Details are on our website, www.stgeorgesschenectady.com.
COFFEE HOUR Please join us for coffee hour after Mass in the Great Hall. Snacks, along with hot and
cold drinks are available during this time of fellowship.
Parish Life
Sunday School is underway — Instruction will be based on the Episcopal Children’s Curriculum. Unit 1 is
entitled God’s Chosen People and will be our focus until All Saints Day. All children in 1st-6th grades ae invited to join. No sign up required! Children wishing to participate will meet their teacher, Mrs. Sharon Trant, in the back of the church immediately after receiving communion or a blessing at the altar rail. We will all meet in the Shaw Lounge during coffee hour (next to Great Hall) for approximately 40 minutes using a one room school house approach. The lesson will be taught together followed by age appropriate activities after the lesson. Any parents or adults wishing to assist with a class or two are very welcome and very needed. Please contact Sharon at Sharontrant928@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
PRAYER LIST — If you have a name that you would like added to the prayer list please email the church office at office@StGeorgesSchenectady.org and we will insure that this person will be remembered in the prayers.
Looking Ahead
All Hallows Tide: All Saints, All Souls — October 31st through November 5th.
Thursday, October 31st — Vigil Mass for the Eve of All Saints — 6:00 p.m. Lady Chapel
Friday, November 1st — Low Mass for All Saints Day — 12:00 p.m. Lady Chapel
Sunday, November 3rd — Choral Mass for All Saints Sunday — 10:00 a.m. High Altar
Tuesday, November 5th — Solemn Requiem Mass for All Souls — 7:00 p.m. High Altar
THE ROSARY: The Society of Mary gathers to pray the Rosary one Sunday per month in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The next opportunity to pray the Rosary will be Sunday, October 20th, at 9:15 a.m. All are invited to join the society in offering this devotion in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Foyer Dinner Groups: There is still time to sign up for Foyer dinner groups! Signup sheets are in the back of the Nave and in the Great Hall. We will have a Foyers kick-off dinner in the Great Hall on Saturday, October 19th starting at 5:00 p.m. It will be a Fall Chili Supper hosted by our group hosts (Trants, Pearsons and Ewbanks). All are welcome, whether you signed up or not. Please bring either appetizers or desserts; chili will be provided.
ALL ON THE SAME PAGE BOOK CLUB: The St. George’s Book Club is now reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Louisa Carr suggested the novel, which ties together seemingly unrelated stories from ancient times, current day, and the future. The unifying threads are heroism, survival, and respect for the written word. All are welcome to join the discussion on November 17th after Mass in the Howe Library at the back of the Great Hall.
Choral Evensong — Mark your calendars for Sunday, November 17th, at 5:00 p.m. when we anticipate our celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday with a Choral Evensong offered by the St. Cecilia Choir. Pre-service organ music begins at 4:45 p.m.
Christmas Services — As you begin to make your plans for celebrating the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, here are the principal liturgies for Christmastide.
Tuesday, December 24th — Family Christmas Service: Low Mass with carols — 4:00 p.m. Lady Chapel
Tuesday, December 24th — Solemn Mass for Christmas Eve — 10:00 p.m. High Altar
Carol Concert precedes the Mass at 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 25th — Sung Mass for Christmas Day — 11:00 a.m. High Altar
Sunday, January 5th — A Feast of Lights for the Eve of the Epiphany — 5:00 p.m. High Altar
Around the Diocese
Dean Vang Celebration — Fifty years ago this month The Very Rev’d Marshall J. Vang, our 16th Rector from 1987-1998, was ordained to the sacred order of priests. This Saturday, October 26th, he will celebrate this golden anniversary with a Solemn High Mass at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany beginning at 11:00 a.m. Our parish choir will join other choirs in singing for this special service. All are invited to attend this Mass in honor of Dean Vang.
CATHEDRAL BIBLE SYMPOSIUM: The Cathedral of All Saints in Albany will be offering its annual Bible Symposium this year on Saturday, November 2nd. The speaker for this year’s symposium is The Rev’d Shane Gormley, Ph.D., whose topic will be Strangers and Sojourners, Outcasts and Outsiders: New Testament Approaches to the Other. Fr. Gormley has taught at Nashotah House Theological Seminary and Loyola University. For registration information, email the cathedral at ca@cathedralofallsaints.org or call 518.465.1342.
Paradise in Recovery — Christ the King Center will be offering a retreat for those in a 12-step recovery program or those in need of a 12 step program. This retreat, Paradise in Recovery: Feeling God’s Grace will be offered on the weekend of November 15-17 by The Rev’d Canon Brian P. Nordwick. For more information or to register for the retreat go to ctkcenter.org/events.
Parish Outreach
YWCA SHELTER Item request update!
Each quarter we collect items for the YWCA. After our most recent donation, we received an updated request. In addition to personal hygiene items such as shampoo, conditioner, menstrual products, etc. the YWCA is now asking for NEW children’s underwear of all sizes.
Contributions may be brought to the back of the church any time this summer. Our next donation will be made on September 15th!
SYCAMORE COLLABORATIVE FOOD PANTRY
The next ingathering will be October 13th.
Parish Life & Beyond…
Prayer List – If you have a name that you would like added to the prayer list please email the church office at office@stgeorgesschenectady.org and we will insure that this person will be remembered in the prayers.
PARISH MINISTRY SCHEDULES POSTED ONLINE — The schedule of greeters, lectors, counters, and altar guild is published online. If you are interested in serving as a lector, greeter, counter, or acolyte, please speak to Fr. Pettigrew or email him at rector@StGeorgesSchenectady.org for more information. For the schedule, visit: https://stgeorgesschenectady.com/news/bulletins/.
FALL STUDY GROUPS
Beginning THIS WEEK we will offer two new study groups.
On Tuesday mornings at 9:00 a.m., after Morning Prayer, we will offer a lectionary study group where members will read and discuss the lessons for the upcoming Sunday. Opportunity will be given to ask questions or give feedback from the previous Sunday’s Sermon. The first meeting of this group is this Tuesday, September 3rd.
On Thursdays after the Healing Mass, around 6:45 p.m. (except on Vestry nights), we will offer a theological reading group discussing one or two chapters of the book, Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality. These chapters are short but rich excerpts from the writings of Anglican writers and thinkers from the 16th through the 20th century. The first meeting of this group is this Thursday, September 5th.
OCTOBER READING GROUP: St. George’s Church will be offering a five week study session on the book The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola by Fr. Patrick Saint-Jean, a Roman Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. These sessions will be offered on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. beginning October 2nd and running through October 30th. They will be led by Ms. Lisa Longe of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, Amsterdam. Ms. Longe is a certified spiritual director and has a Master of Arts degree in Christian Spirituality from Fordham University. Please contact the office if you register, and please purchase the book in advance of the first session.
SHAPE NOTE SINGING: All are welcome to experience the joy of singing together the beautiful a cappella harmonies and stirring songs of the Sacred Harp, a tune book and hymnal published in Georgia in 1844 and used in community singing throughout the world. We sing in the Great Hall on Saturday afternoons from 1-3:30pm. For schedule updates or more information, please contact Tarik Wareh or visit www.albanysacredharp.org
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