Sunday Forum: The Language of our Worship

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Sunday Forum: The Language of our Worship
This Sunday, March 24, after the 11am service, the Ascension Forum will discuss: How do the words we use in prayer shape us? How do we shape them? What verbal images help us understand God? Christ? Humankind? The creation? God’s purposes and “kingdom”? Do we use poetry, prose? Traditional, archaic, contemporary, experimental language? Different words in public worship from private prayer? As Episcopalians, how are we shaped by the Book of Common Prayer, what are its resources and limitation? And what do we mean when we talk about God as Word? Please join Mother Liz to explore these and other questions in this session of our Lenten series on “The Images that Shape Us.”


The Images that Form Us

Lenten series, Sundays at Ascension

Please join us for a forum series exploring the power of images (including language) to shape our self-understanding, our faith and worship, our commitment to justice, our vision of wholeness, our relationship with God and more. The series will be led by the Ascension clergy, and guests.

Upcoming:

  • Lent 3 (Sunday, March 24)- “The Language of Our Worship” (led by Mother Liz)
  • Lent 4 (Sunday, March 31)- “Looking Together” (with guest presenter, Carolyn Halpin-Healy, Executive Director of Arts and Minds)
  • Lent 5 (Sunday, April 7)- “In God’s Image” (led by the clergy)

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Parish News: November 15
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Parish News: November 15

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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