Get To Know Us
Ascension is a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community of people who gather to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ, to give praise and thanks to God through the beauty of worship, and to love and serve God and our neighbors.
Regular Worship Schedule
- Sunday 9am: Holy Eucharist at Side Altar
- Sunday 11am: Holy Eucharist in the Church with sermon, hymns & soloist
- Sunday 7pm: Service of Meditations and Sacrament, including chant, interfaith readings and communion
- Monday–Friday: 6pm at Side Altar. Church open for prayer and meditation 12–3pm.
We'd like to hear from you!Ongoing Events
- Mondays: Weekly Lectionary Bible Study
7 p.m. in the Parish Office, 12 W. 11th Street, 2nd Flr. For more information, contact Sibyl Piccone. - Wednesdays: Centering Prayer
7:30-8:15 a.m. in the Chapel, Fifth Avenue at 10th Street. For more information, please contact the parish office. 8:30-8:50 a.m. Morning Prayer in the Chapel.
- Mondays: Weekly Lectionary Bible Study
Services in the Church this Sunday
With cooler weather this weekend, this Sunday, August 18, 2019, all three services – 9am, 11am and 7pm – will take place in the church rather than the Parish Hall. Please join us as we give thanks and praise together in resplendent beauty.
Episcopal New Yorker: Hope and Courage
Parishioner Stanley Weinberg is published in this month’s Episcopal New Yorker. You can read the full article, Hope and Courage: From the Stonewall Riot to Stonewall 50 and World Pride NYC, online here, or pick up a copy of the current issue in the narthex.
The New Sanctuary Coalition
After our recent discussion of Ascension being a short-term sanctuary, several have asked what more can they do. The New Sanctuary Coalition has two very concrete ways you can get involved, with frequent training opportunities for both: (1) Pro Se Clinic – The clinic helps people identify ways to get relief from deportation and detention; …
News
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Join us at 6:00 p.m. this Monday, July 22, for the evening Eucharist and to celebrate the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene. We are delighted to welcome Meredith Ward as our guest preacher at that service.
Summer Book Group in July
The Ascension Summer Book Group will meet on Monday, July 15, and Tuesday July 23. All are invited to read and discuss Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, by Rachel Held Evans. This is a book about telling and inhabiting stories – bible stories, our own stories of faith, doubt, …
Events
Help Send a Kid to Camp
As in years past, Ascension will again help send a kid to camp, giving $1400 from the Lapsley Fund, which is designated to give urban children a summer experience in the country at Incarnation Camp. But this year… We are challenging the congregation to match this amount for the Summer Overnight Leadership Camp of Rural …
Get Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
Throughout July, the Summer Book Group will be reading and discussing Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, by Rachel Held Evans. This is a book about telling and inhabiting stories — bible stories, our own stories of faith, doubt, and wrestling for a blessing. RHE, as she is affectionately known, …
Thoughts
Sermon – July 28, 2019
Here is a link to listen to the sermon by The Rev. Liz Maxwell on the seventhSunday after Pentecost. There is also a link to the scripture for this Sunday. Lessons You can read the scripture for July 28th here.
Sermon – July 21, 2019
Lessons You can read the scripture for July 21, 2019, the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, here. Audio We welcomed Stacey Carpenter as our preacher this Sunday. Stacey is preparing to leave for her first year at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas at the end of this month.
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