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Please join us this Sunday at 1pm to celebrate the life of our former warden David Cohn, who died last winter in California. |
All Welcome ~ Every week at All Saints ~ Sundays 10am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Rev. Steven Yagerman 9am Christian Education: Coming to Faith Sundays at 9am, before church, we wrestle with texts and meaning in a kaleidoscopic quasi-rabbinical open-ended discussion. The conversation is always lively and stimulating, and many of us find it a good preparation for service. You're welcome to join us. More Wednesdays 9am Meditative Eucharist 6pm Eucharist: Each Wednesday evening during Lent we gather at 6pm in the chapel for the celebration of the Eucharist. Many people find that a mid-week observance serves to keep their minds and hearts open to the deeper things in life and refreshes their search for meaning and sacred connection. Saturdays 5-6:30 All Saints Community Meals Hot meal in Levy Hall. Volunteers welcome.
Saturday evening bag suppers are served in the garden during July and August each year.
Service music for this week The weekly 10am service is a full Choral Eucharist.
What do you like about All Saints?
This beautiful gem of a church, in my neighborhood, has captivated my attention and provided me with the inspiration to make it through some very difficult times. I have been blessed with the caring concern of so many parishioners and the enormous spiritual comfort of our rector as I experienced many major changes in my life. The community of believers and seekers provides an experience of family that is something of a rarity in this city. The ministry to the sick, hungry and homeless provides a sense of purpose that lifts me out of a suffocating sense of self involvement. Each week between the readings, the sermons and communion, I feel a sense of peace and purpose. This church continues to be a beacon of hope, healing, and meaning. ~Florence A. 11/11/11
When I first visited All Saints last Easter, I was immediately impressed with the beauty of the liturgy (including the great music), the eloquence and authenticity of the rector's sermons, and most of all the friendliness, openness and salt-of-the-earth goodness of the people I met here. I feel fortunate to have found a church with such a perfect balance of the sacramental, the scriptural, and the social. ~Chris T. 2/7/10
Healing Prayer Prayers for healing, with the laying on of hands, are offered at the service immediately after communion. Please come to the Chapel of the Magi (just right of the main altar) and a priest will come to you.
If you’d like us to pray for someone specific at the Prayers of the People, you have two options. If it’s a one-time request, simply mention it to the ushers before the service. However, if this is a request for a period of time (for instance, for someone whose recovery from surgery is likely to take awhile), call or email Viviana at the church office, and she'll be glad to assist you.
212-758-0447 or info@allsaintsnyc.org
We would really love to hear from you:
Is there a ministry you would like to do?
Is there a poem you would like to share?
Is there something you would like to get involved with or a program you would like to develop?
Is there another church that does something that you wish we could do here?
Is there someone you would like prayers for?
Would you like to help in the Community Meal, but don’t know how?
Would you like to learn how to be a sub-deacon?
Would you like to speak to a priest about a troubling situation?
Please speak up! We are as strong as your expressed interest. What people seem to like here is that it is easy to step right in and get involved. But maybe there is something you want to do that isn’t happening here. With your help, your interest and your voice, we would like to encourage you to make it happen. Ask, and you will receive.
Community Meal At All Saints
We are midway into our 8th year of our Community Meals at All Saints, and we are once again looking for volunteers to help cook, set tables, serve and clean up. Each week we have a team of cooks, but those two people are not enough to do all that needs to be done. Some people like to come early and help with preparations, while others prefer the personal contact of serving our clients. We ask that you consider where you would be happiest serving. All of our volunteers find happiness in following Christ's injunction to feed the hungry. Many find that volunteering at our community meals is the spiritual medicine that makes their life and their faith work.
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 | Horace M. Kilborn
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In the Middle Ages, stained glass windows were one way the biblical story was communicated to the people of God. For centuries this craft has enriched the worship and spiritual life of the church. All Saints parish has been blessed to inherit several windows of considerable beauty and spiritual import, many of them installed in the early years of our building around the end of the 19th century, when All Saints was known as St. Thomas Chapel. Now however, these treasured works of art are really showing their age. The beautiful windows left and right are in our side chapel. STAINED GLASS RESCUE
Although All Saints’ beautiful stained glass windows look stable and secure, they have only a mortal life. Annual expansion and contraction through the years have inexorably compromised the glass and damaged the frames. we can no longer defer repair and restoration of these historic artifacts in our care. The necessary maintenance and renewal are going to be a long and costly process we all must share. At this point, we have determined a triage strategy to fix the worst ones first, and then prioritize the rest as funds come to match needs. More stained glass window photos and history updated 3/6/10 Our Ministries: Feed the HungryAll Saints Community Meals are in full swing. Join Our Team!
This has been our fifth year providing free weekly meals to some sixty guests as part of our Christian testimony and ministry to the needy, and our second year continuing through the summer. We welcome volunteers.
Sponsoring a meal for $150 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 you wish to honor in this way. From September through June, our hot meals are served at 5:00 on Saturday afternoons. 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. Our community meals are lovingly served to seated guests, rather than asking them to file through a serving line with plate outstretched. We are told often how welcome this makes the guests feel. It also means we need your help even more, though. The summer of 2009 was first time we offered bag suppers for our friends to eat in the church garden, or to take away. Feedback from the guests encouraged us to do it again through the summer of 2010. 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, or email us at info@allsaints-nyc.org. Lay co-ordinators Robin and Denise receive emails sent directly to communitymeal@yahoo.com.
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