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1677-2005

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The flowers gracing the sanctuary are given to the glory of God and in loving memory of my mother, Huld Johansson by Anna Schroeder & in loving memory of Dominic De Francesco, grandfather & great grandfather of Cheryl & Keith Irizarry.

On this World Communion Sunday, please join us in the sacred task of feeding the hungry.  We will be preparing buttered rolls for our immigrant day laborer feeding ministry in the Parish House after service.

Friday, October 11th: World Trade Center Memorial Service at 7:30

Consistory today at 3 PM in the Sunday School

Please join us next Saturday, October 12th as we host the Columbus Day Parade reception and march alongside the community groups that represent this great neighborhood!  Parade at 1 PM.  We are meeting at Noon at the church!

Help Restore A Landmark!

Friends of Historic New Utrecht
Invites You To Join Us For

A Community Service Day
At the
Historic New Utrecht Cemetery
(18th Ave Between 84th & 85th Streets)

Saturday, October 19
9am - 3pm
(Rain Date: October 26)

• Clearing Overgrown Areas

• Cleaning Historic Headstones

• Removing Fallen Branches & Debris

Help us protect this Landmark Cemetery and Prepare it for our Program of Tours for School Children and Community Groups

We will provide tools and work gloves, but feel free to bring your equipment

For Further Information Contact
Telephone (718)256-7173                 Fax (718)256-7162
  E-mail: VPFOHNU@aol.com

Where charity and love are found,
there is God.
The love of Christ has gathered us together into one.
Let us rejoice and be glad in him.
Let us fear and love the living God,
and love each other from the depths of our heart.

Therefore when we are together,
let us take heed not to be divided in mind,
Let there be an end to bitterness and quarrels,
        an end to strife,
and in our midst be Christ our God.

(Antiphons; Procession with gifts for the poor)
And, in company with the blessed,
may we see your face in glory, Christ our God,
pure and unbounded joy for ever and ever.

Because eucharist is first and foremost the celebration of the divine hospitality made present to us in the person of Jesus, it is an action which addresses every form of inhospitality in our world, confronting it with the image of what might be and ought to be.  Jesus as the outreach of divine hospitality is not only the primary hospitality of creation but the further redemptive hospitality of healing grace.  At its simplest level of sharing of food, the eucharist signals that in God's world there is room for all.  We are therefore challenged to solve the problems of the world by sharing, not by eliminating people, not by killing.  At its higher level of symbolism, pointing to the paschal mystery as foreshadowed by the Exodus event, the eucharist bids us share in celebrating the liberation of the poor, the oppressed and the marginated or excluded because these are in a special way the people of God.

Monika Hellwig

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