On Saturday, March 5th, we will be celebrating the life of our friend and colleague, bass Walter Richardson. Walter, who sang with our choir and Voices of Ascension for many years, passed away on October 10th after a long illness. We will have a memorial service with music at 5p.m. in the Church and a pot luck reception in the Parish Hall afterward for singers and other friends who knew and loved
Walter. Anyone wishing to attend the reception please contact Denise Kelly at (212) 254-8620 x10 to sign up for food or beverages.
Newsletter
Parish News: May 17
In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz celebrates the parish’s feast day with Malcolm Guite’s sonnet on the Ascension, exploring its paradoxes: ending and beginning, absence and presence, humanity and divinity. Jesus leaves the disciples to fill all things with even more profound intimacy, and it is his broken, still-wounded body—”the heart that broke for all the broken hearted”—that ascends to God’s heart. The rector invites us to sit with these mysteries during the “dazzling darkness” between Ascension and Pentecost, pondering how we are held and hidden with Christ while called to be his presence in a world of crisis, wonder, and grief.
