Christmas Concerts at Ascension

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Tuesday & Wednesday, December 10 & 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM

Conductor Dennis Keene leads the Voices of Ascension chorus in their most popular concerts of the season! Once again the church will be lit by hundreds of candles as the Voices of Ascension presents four centuries of Christmas music – a wonderful mixture of classical pieces and favorite Christmas carols. Join us in welcoming the up-and-coming soprano Abigail Santos-Villalobos. Favorite of the Santa Fe, Cincinnati and San Francisco opera programs, Abigail’s lustrous voice will add even more warmth to your holiday! For tickets and information, visit: Voices of Ascension or call the box office at (212) 358-7060.

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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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