Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 11, 2014

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4th in easterJoin us for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: 9am Holy Eucharist at Side Altar; 11am Holy Eucharist in the church with sermon, music & choir; 7pm Service of Meditations and Sacrament including chant, interfaith readings and communion. Special music by the Ascension choir and prelude (10:45am) and postlude on The Manton Memorial organ.

In addition to being Mother’s Day, this Sunday is Episcopal Charities Sunday when parishioners throughout the Diocese join together to celebrate and support the work of our parish-based feeding programs – Ascension Outreach, Inc. among them. On this day our plate offering goes to Episcopal Charities to support these programs. For more information see this link for Episcopal Charities of New York.

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Parish News: May 24

In this week’s newsletter, the rector notes Pentecost’s reversal of Babel—not by restoring a single language, but by enabling understanding across difference as each speaks and hears in their own tongue. She treasures hearing parishioners read “God’s deeds of power” in many languages during worship, and invites us to consider what it means to speak of God in our own heart language—whether shaped by mother tongue, place, trust, or profound shared experience. In a time of contempt for difference, Pentecost reveals the blessing of many tongues and the Holy Spirit’s gift of mutual understanding across culture, faith, and ethnic background.

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