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Backpack and Animal Blessing Saturday 03OCT & Sunday 04OCT

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Backpack and Pet Blessing

Bring your backpack and your pets to share in the blessings and joy!

Now that school is back in full force, why not make sure we send our little scholars out with something extra special? On Saturday, October 3rd and again on Sunday, October 4th, we will bless all backpacks and any other such carrying cases.

Far be it from us to forget our beloved pets. To honor and celebrate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, who found such joy in God’s creatures, we, too, will celebrate our pets with a special blessing.

Parents: make sure your kids bring their backpacks and pets. Kids: remind your folks so they don’t forget to remind you!

Any time we can share in a blessing, well my friends, this is truly a good, right and holy thing.

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I Am St Nick: A Call To Share Your Story

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We all understand and appreciate the gift of sharing. At St. Nicholas we do a tremendous job of offering time, talent and treasure to this community of faith and to the greater Church. We are blessed and in turn, we share our blessings.

We are inviting anyone and everyone to share a story…YOUR story. We are united but we are also very diverse and individually unique. Think for a moment of just how and why you came to St. Nicholas Church. Who or what moved you to become part of this community, a member of the Episcopal Communion. How about a story of church, an occasion that moved and perhaps changed you or some special “church person” who helped guide and develop your faith. So many of us come from other faith traditions and other churches, Episcopal or otherwise. We wish to know our sisters and brothers better. The sky is the limit as to what kind of stories are out there. The depth of our wishing to share and read these recollections is even greater!

We all love a story and there are no better stories than the ones we share with each other about ourselves, our faith, our journeys, spiritual or otherwise.

All are welcome to participate. No one is too young or too old. No such thing as a “generation gap” when it comes to stories celebrated and shared. In fact, I suspect we all have quite a few stories we could submit. This is YOUR time to do just that…SHARE. The more we have, the greater and richer our field.

Think…Pray…Write. When you have some thing to share, please submit your story (simply reply to any issue of News From Nick) and it will be posted in an upcoming edition of News From Nick.

Thank you for your consideration and willingness to share…we are all the more blessed.

Prayer Requests

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For the repose of the soul of Holly, a dear friend of Penny and Hank: “May the angels lead her into Paradise. May the martyrs come to welcome her on her way and lead her to the Holy City, Jerusalem. May the choirs of angels welcome her and with Lazarus, who was once poor, may she have everlasting life. Amen.”

For our Vernon, who currently is at Lexington Rehabilitation Center in Streamwood receiving treatment and dialysis: pray for his full and complete recovery and let us pray for Erlene that she may be blessed comfort and strength.

For Hal and Steve who will be attending the Verger’s Convention and representing St. Nicholas Church: pray for their safe travels, stirring workshops and joyful worship.

For our Lenny who took a serious fall and injured his neck and upper back: pray for a successful surgery, quick recovery and full return to an active, healthy life.

For the Syrian refugee crisis which continues to unfold in Europe: pray that government leaders around the world open their boarders and the doors of their homes to welcome these victims of violence and oppression no longer as strangers but as friends.

For all our pets and all animals: that they are treated with care, love and gentleness.

For all our St. Nicholas community members who are under the weather and in need of healing and prayers: may they find peace and be blessed with sound and better health: Joan, Courtney, Art, Karen, Sharon, Jill, Connie, Ron, Marcia, Joanne, Fran, Kesha, Mary, Eunice, Tony, K.C., Dick, Dale, Phil, Tim, Jackie, Chris, Cathy, Carrie, Tim, Pat, Lenny, Perry, Kathy J. and any one else in need of our continued prayers and well wishes.

*** “Prayers for Trina Bennett who suffered a stroke and in I.C.U.”

(***written prayer requests)