Your guide to music, adult education and worship for the season…
Grace Church offers many opportunities to enrich your Lenten journey through
worship, education, music, fellowship or simple quiet prayer and rest.
For a full schedule, click on the image at left (or pick one up in the Church or Parish House).
We welcome you, please join us.
20s30s LENTEN SUSHI FRIDAYS
Enjoy a meal, prayer and fellowship with others in their 20s and 30s at 7 pm every Friday during Lent. Various locations. RSVP and learn the location by 5 pm each THURSDAY to Melissa Spindler at mspindler@gracechurchnyc.org.
(Sundays in Lent) THE SUNDAY FORUM AT 10AM: TRYING CHRISTIANS: Challengers of Complacent Faith
Classes will focus on the lives of Christians who challenge the foundational beliefs and practices of our shared faith. They are simultaneously inspiring and infuriating; unifying and divisive; charismatic and corrosive. Each has succeeded in moving the Church in one direction or another as they write books, develop followings, and manage to hold sway with what some to see as prophetic ministries. As we each adopt Lenten disciplines of self-reflection, a meditation on these figures reminds us to guard against complacency in our own religious lives. Held in Tuttle Hall; pick up some refreshment at coffee hour and join the discussion.
THIS WEEK 3/10 Diana Benet, University of North Texas, speaks about Flannery O’Connor, Christian and fiction writer.
(Sunday Evenings) JOURNEY THROUGH LENT: FROM SIN TO FORGIVENESS
Classes begin after the 6 pm service (about 6.45) in the Chantry and aim to be finished by 7.45. We will reflect on our spiritual journeys from sin and brokenness to forgiveness and healing. This series is centered on the Eucharistic lections and uses outside readings, film, lectures, and discussion/reflection groups. We begin with light refreshment and will end by 8:30 pm. Topics include Sin, Self & Freedom: Jesus as Martyr (Feb 24); Judgment: A Biblical Perspective (Mar 3); Forgiveness: The Prodigal Son (Mar 10); and Grace: Accepting God’s Love (Mar 17). Make these classes a part of your Lenten journey; join for one or all of them. Led by the clergy of Grace Church and special guest speakers.
(Wednesdays in Lent) FILM STUDY: THE DECALOGUE
The Reverends Sarah Wood and Stephen Holton will lead a study on five of the ten films Krzysztof Kieslowski directed for Polish public television in the late 1980s entitled The Decalogue. We will consider the characters established within the cinematic medium, discover theological threads: temptation, examination, repentance, forgiveness, and grace, and finally acknowledge the ways in which our own lives express these habits. Class will begin at 6:45 pm (on Feb 27, Mar 6, 13 & 20, directly after 6 pm Holy Eucharist) and conclude by 8:15 pm, in the Music Room.
PROGRESS OF THE NEW ORGAN – INSTALLATION!
Recent photographs taken inside the church can be viewed HERE in Dr. Patrick Allen’s latest blog entry.
HOLY EUCHARIST WEDNESDAYS at 6 pm
Celebrate in the Chantry with hymns and homily.
The Sunday of the Passion:
PALM SUNDAY
9:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Sermon: The Rev. J. Donald Waring
Music: The Parish Choir
11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon
Sermon: The Rev. J. Donald Waring
Music: The Adult Choir
4:00 p.m. Choral Evensong
with Excerpts from Part II of Handel's MESSIAH
The Adult Choir
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist, in the Chantry
Sermon: The Rev. J. Donald Waring
Music: Hymns with instrumentalists
The Power Of Grace