OpenHouseNewYork: Oct 15 & 16

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The Church of the Ascension will again participate in the OpenHouseNewYork weekend which will take place in the afternoon on October 15 and 16. Volunteers are needed to assist visitors with questions about the church and our new organ. If you would like to help on either of those days, please contact Tom Rice or Liz Hill. Dennis Keene will give organ demonstrations at 2 and 4pm on Saturday and 1:30pm on Sunday.

The schedule for our Open House is:

  • Saturday, October 15 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Sunday, October 16 – 1:00pm – 5:00pm

See our page on the OpenHouseNewYork web site for more information.

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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.

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