The Church of the Ascension

Lisa Dunn — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:10:57 +0000

On Tuesday, May 21st at 8 pm Voices of Ascension will perform

Tickets can be purchased online at Voices of Ascension or call the box office at (212) 358-7060.

First Summer Parish Barbecue

websexton — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:41:19 +0000

Save the date for our first summer 2013 Parish BBQ on Wednesday, May 29th, at 7 p.m. Hamburgers, hot dogs and lemonade will be provided. A sign up sheet will be posted in the Parish Hall to bring a salad, side dish or dessert. Come and enjoy the fellowship of the parish. All are welcome!

Parish Round Table Results Announced

Lisa Dunn — Mon, 06 May 2013 01:38:39 +0000

The Rector Search Committee has published a summary of the results from our two Parish Round Table discussions. Here is a link to the Parish Round Table Summary Report and a copy is also posted on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall.

May 19th: Feast of Pentecost

Lisa Dunn — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:57:39 +0000

Pentecost Banner by Gerrie Congdon

Join us this Sunday at the 11 o’clock service when we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost with baptisms and also The Rev. Shelley D. McDade will take her vows as Interim Pastor of The Church of the Ascension. We also welcome The Reverend Jim Burns as guest preacher on this feast day and it is the last day of the full choir. On May 26th we will celebrate Trinity Sunday.

Update from the Rector Search Committee

Lisa Dunn — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:51:34 +0000

Our information gathering for the Parish Profile is almost completed, including a questionnaire, two round table sessions, and individual interviews. We will be publishing the results of the survey, as well as a detailed summary of the round tables, so please look for those announcements in the next few weeks. We are happy to report that we are right on schedule according to our timetable for the search.

If you have questions, please contact one of the Rector Search Committee members: Meredith Ward, Chair; Eve Beglarian, Barbara Burns, Peter Clark, Janet Fisher, Ned Fitch, Sirkka Kyle, Jennifer Lemaigre, Ethan Mandel, members. Our email address is search@ascensionnyc.org.

Guest preacher on Sunday, April 28th

Lisa Dunn — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:05:24 +0000

The Rev. Canon Deborah G. Tammearu from the Transitional Ministry Office of the New York Diocese will be our guest preacher at the 11 a.m. service and will also join us at coffee hour.

Originally a junior high school science teacher, The Rev. Canon Deborah G. Tammearu is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and has been an Episcopal priest for more than 30 years. She began her ordained ministry at Zion Church, Wappingers Falls, where she served as the Curate, and next served as the Priest-in-Charge of Western Dutchess Ministry, a collaborative coalition of three congregations in Dutchess County, for ten years. She was called by St. Thomas, Mamaroneck to be their fifteenth Rector, leaving that position after nineteen years when Bishop Andrew Dietsche recently appointed her as the diocesan Canon for Transition Ministry.

Meditations for Easter 2013

The Rev. Shelley D. McDade — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:02:11 +0000

The following are three meditations given by The Rev. Shelley D. McDade on Good Friday at The Church of the Ascension. Each of the meditations is introduced by the text of a spiritual leader. The first is Richard Rohr, a Roman Catholic monk and priest. The second meditation is introduced by a reading from Hildegard of Bingen and inspired by The Dalai Lama; the third from Julian of Norwich.

First Meditation Richard Rohr

Second Meditation The Dalai Lama

Third Meditation Julian of Norwich

Message from the Wardens

Lisa Dunn — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:13:40 +0000

Dear Parishioners,

With great joy and excitement we announce that Mtr. Shelley McDade is the Interim Pastor of the Church of the Ascension. We thank the members of the Interim Search Committee for their patience and seriousness of purpose in discerning this choice. This decision was made by the Vestry after a great deal of thought and prayer, and with the blessing of the Bishop. We thank Mtr. Shelley for her support of all of us as we pursued the search process.

As Interim Pastor, Mtr. Shelley will continue to lead our worship and work closely with the wardens and vestry in meeting the many challenges we face in the here and now. She will also continue to help our entire parish community prepare for our next rector. We will employ an assisting priest to help Mtr. Shelley with worship, pastoral care, Ascension Outreach and other parish needs.

Mtr. Shelley will serve us as Interim Pastor until a new rector has been called. We take the many beauties of the Holy Week just past as a sign that she will challenge our hearts, our minds and our hands to find God in our midst and to act with love and fearlessness.

Sincerely,

Steven Hubbard & David Cholcher
Wardens

World Premier & Great Choruses Concert

Lisa Dunn — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:31:49 +0000

On Thursday, April 18th at 8 pm Voices of Ascension will perform some of the most beloved of all choral works (such as the Mendelssohn and Ireland works), performed with the polish, care and interpretive depth that can only come from one of the world’s preeminent choral ensembles. Two of the other pieces share the same text (Psalm 90) and are among the most profound works ever composed for chorus: Vaughan Williams’ extraordinary Lord, thou hast been our refuge for two choirs, trumpet and organ, and Ives’ astonishing masterpiece, Psalm 90, for chorus, soloists, organ and bells situated at all corners of the church. Maestro Keene has called Ives’ Psalm 90 “quite possibly the single greatest composition ever written by an American composer.” A lighter side will feature two rousing choruses by Carl Maria von Weber and Beethoven, each a tour de force vehicle for coloratura soprano Deborah Feldman.

And finally, we will hear new works for chorus: the winning compositions of the 2013 Sorel Medallion Award and the World Premiere of Eve Beglarian’s Building the Bird Mound. According to Eve, the piece is inspired by an amazing site she came upon in her journey down the Mississippi River, the remains of a Native American town called Poverty Point, which has a giant bird mound which was constructed sometime between 1750 and 1350 B.C.

Tickets can be purchased online at Voices of Ascension or call the box office at (212) 358-7060.

Easter

websexton — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:05:42 +0000

I got me flowers to strew thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.

The Sunne arising in the East.
Though he give light, and th’East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy arising, they presume.

Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endevour?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.