We welcome Stacey Carpenter as our guest preacher this Sunday, July 21st. Stacey is preparing to leave for her first year at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, and the following Sunday, July 28, will be her last at Ascension for several months. Please join us to give her a prayerful, festive send off. Due to the warmer weather, the 11 a.m. Eucharist will be held in the Parish Hall (where the air is comfortably conditioned). The entrance is around the corner from the church in the Ascension Parish House, 12 W. 11th Street. Watch the weekly email on Fridays for this and other updates. The 9 a.m. Eucharist will be held at the Side Altar in the church, and the 7 p.m. Service of Meditation & Sacrament will be held in the Nave and Chancel of the church, as usual.
Newsletter
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.
