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.

Michaelmas Weekend — — The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, also known as Michaelmas, is next Sunday, September 29th. Our 10 a.m. Mass that day will be a Solemn High Mass with The Rev’d Jenn Dorsey serving as Deacon. Mtr. Dorsey is both an Episcopal priest, supplying in the Diocese of Albany, and Professor of History at Siena College, specializing in Colonial and Revolutionary American History. We look forward to having her with us for this special feast day.

Also, this Saturday night, September 28th, St. George’s Church will have a Solemn singing of the Te Deum to mark the beginning of the feast, followed by a short 25 minute organ recital by Brian Taylor with pieces based on the Te Deum chant. This short concert is part of the meeting of the Eastern New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. All are welcome to attend this brief liturgy and concert.

Pet Blessing — Our annual pet blessing in honor of St. Francis of Assisi will be Sunday afternoon, October 6th, at 3:00 p.m. People may bring their pets to the lawn just outside the church door. The short pet blessing liturgy includes an individual blessing for every pet.


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 most recent 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.

Looking Ahead

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.

Around the Diocese

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.

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 September 15th.

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

ALL ON THE SAME PAGE BOOK CLUB — September 15 we will be discussing “Nickel Boys”, by Colson Whitehead, suggested by Pattie.

Subsequent books:

November 17, Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthoney Doerr, suggested by Louisa

Around the Diocese of Albany

Christ the King Center

Christ the King is the Diocesan owned retreat center and camp. Christ the King offers many programs and retreat opportunities throughout the year. Check out their events page by clicking below:

Christ the King Events Page