Ascension Outreach and Resistance Cinema present a Special Film Event: POSI+IVE: Life with HIV on November 19 & 21 (Tuesday & Thursday) at 7pm. The film will be shown in the church, enter on Fifth Avenue at 10th Street. We are proud to host this powerful film event with panel discussion celebrating the exciting advancements currently being made in clinical care and treatment by the Research Foundation to Cure AIDS (RFTCA). In this two-part screening of the award-winning documentary series Positive: Life with HIV, dive into an experimental film illustrating the political, psycho-social, cultural, medical and legal issues of living with HIV/AIDS. After the films, enjoy refreshments, musical performances by The Nouveau Classical Project, and conversation with a diverse panel of survivors, activists, and the film’s director.
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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.
