On Sunday, May 22, the Church of the Ascension will participate in an Open House sponsored by the New York Landmarks Conservancy celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Sacred Sites listing. The open house will take place from 1:00 – 4:00 pm. All members of the parish are invited to attend. Please let your families, friends and neighbor know about this event.
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.
