Blessing of the Animals, October 6th

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Blessing of the Animals, October 6thWe will celebrate the Blessing of the Animals this Sunday after the 11 o’clock service in the front garden on Fifth Avenue. This is a special celebration of all creatures great and small. Big kids are needed to help with animals at the treat table and you can also have your photograph taken with your favorite pet.

Also this Sunday we bid farewell to Denise Kelly from our Ascension family. deniseDenise has been serving our parish for 27 years as receptionist, vocalist, choir mother, parish historian and all around go-to person for clergy and parishioners. She has dedicated herself to all of us as we have gone through many a transition here at Ascension. Please join us as Denise sings with the choir and we celebrate and bless her in return during the service.

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In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz shares how a historian’s request about Pete and Toshi Seeger’s 1943 wedding led to a discovery: the couple married in Ascension’s All Saints Chapel. The marriage register also revealed the officiant, Edward George Harris, a former assistant priest here who later became a distinguished Episcopal leader. As we celebrate our bicentennial, the parish is collecting stories of its saints and its place in New York and Episcopal history, sharing these findings in the weekly newsletter.

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