This Week at All Saints
Sunday
9:00 am Introduction to the Church, with the Rector
10:00 am Choral Eucharist. Preacher: the Rev. Steven Yagerman
11:00 am Coffee hour
Wednesday
6:00 pm Meditative Eucharist
Saturdays September to June
5:00 - 6:30 pm All Saints Community Meal (soup kitchen)
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In the Middle Ages, stained glass windows were one of the ways the biblical story was communicated to the people of God. This craft has continued to enrich the worship and spiritual life of the church. All Saints has been blessed to inherit several windows of considerable beauty and spiritual import. Many were installed in the early years of our building, circa 1900, when All Saints was known as St. Thomas Chapel. However, now these century-old treasures of ours are really showing their age.
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A Message from the Rector, the Rev. Steven Jay Yagerman
Pentecost 2009
Dear friends and parishioners,
I remember the fall of 1980 hearing John Lennon’s voice crooning, “It feels just like starting over.” There he was back after a five year exile sharing a joy that we hadn’t heard in years. Tragically, that joy was short-lived. But those words keep resonating in my mind this spring. It seems that there is a reality embedded deep in the human spirit that longs for and believes in the concept of starting over. Logic doesn’t teach us about starting over (in fact logic doesn’t even teach us about starting in the first place) and yet there it is, not only longed for, but also believed in, cherished and celebrated as one of life’s great mysteries.
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Our Ministries: Feed the Hungry
All Saints Community Meals: Join Our Team!
This has been our fourth year providing free weekly meals to some fifty guests as part of our Christian testimony and ministry to the needy. We welcome volunteers.
Sponsoring a meal for $125 is a beautiful way to memorialize someone. Your names and the reason for your contribution (appreciation, a special commemoration, a living memorial, a birthday, etc.) will be listed in the Sunday bulletin. If you like, a letter will be sent to those honored.
Our meals are served at 5:00 on Saturday afternoons from September till June, but we welcome help setting up during the half hour or so before the guests arrive, or help cleaning up afterwards if it is convenient for you to help for a little while after the meal. It takes many hands to pour drinks, put out serving pieces, set tables, fold napkins--there is a job to utilize everyone's abilities. Usually the volunteer work gets done between 4:30 and 6:15.
If you happen to have spare kitchen gadgets, pot lifters, serving pieces, etc., consider donating them to the community meal operations.
Decide how you'd like to help, and then let us know. You can call the church office at 212-758-0447 and speak with Viviana, or email us at info@allsaintsnyc.org. You can also email Robin Rule and Denise LaVetty, the lay coordinators, directly at communitymeal@yahoo.com.
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