Holy Week 2021

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Join us throughout this week as we journey to the cross, hear the record of God’s saving deeds in history, and marvel at the miracle of an empty tomb.

All services this year take place online, via Zoom.

Palm Sunday

Sunday, March 28, 11:00 a.m.
ascensionnyc.org/palmsunday
or zoom.us/j/322793633

Evening Prayer with Lay Homilists

Monday, March 29, 5:30 p.m., preacher: John Grimes
Tuesday, March 30, 5:30 p.m., preacher: Gretchen Dumler
Wednesday, March 31, 5:30 p.m., preacher: John Thompson
ascensionnyc.org/eveningprayer
or zoom.us/j/770597201

Maundy Thursday

Thursday, April 1, 7:00 p.m.
ascensionnyc.org/holythursday
or zoom.us/j/98669423643

Good Friday

Friday, April 2, 12 noon
ascensionnyc.org/goodfriday
or zoom.us/j/97846082843

Holy Saturday

Saturday, April 3, 10:00 a.m.
ascensionnyc.org/holysaturday
or zoom.us/j/95743570876

Great Vigil of Easter

Saturday, April 3, 7:00 p.m.
ascensionnyc.org/greatvigil
or zoom.us/j/91403568982

Easter Sunday

Sunday, April 4, 11:00 a.m.
ascensionnyc.org/easter
or zoom.us/j/322793633

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Hans Süss von Kulmbach, The Ascension of Christ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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.

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