Our Ascension Needlework Group started up again on Wednesday, September 4, and will meet on the first Wednesday of every month. All are welcome- no experience required! Over the next few Sundays, our forums after the 11 AM service will explore different aspects of this ministry and its impact. Sunday, September 15- We make and donate hats and scarves to the Seaman’s Church Institute
Join the fun on Wednesday evening, August 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. for our final Summer BBQ in the front garden. This is a great way to fellowship with other parishioners and to meet and get to know our neighbors. The BBQ is potluck (the church provides burgers and hotdogs), so bring a dish to share.
Can you help Ascension welcome our newest neighbors this Sunday, August 25th? We will have a table outside on Sunday morning between services and during coffee hour, sharing information and treats with students and their families on this very hectic day of moving into dorms and getting settled. Please help us share the Good News and some good ole Ascension hospitality. To volunteer, please
With cooler weather this weekend, this Sunday, August 25, 2019, all three services – 9am, 11am and 7pm – will take place in the church rather than the Parish Hall. Please join us as we give thanks and praise together in resplendent beauty.
Grant to us, Lord, we pray, the spirit to think and do always those things that are right, that we, who cannot exist without you, may by you be enabled to live according to your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Grazing the Amazon is a groundbreaking documentary by director Marcio Isensee e Sa on the devastating effects of the cattle industry on the deforestation of the Amazon. Less than fifty years ago, in the 1970s, the rainforest was intact. Since then, a portion the size of France has disappeared, 66% of which transformed into pastures. Cattle ranching became an economic and cultural banner of
Parishioner Stanley Weinberg is published in this month’s Episcopal New Yorker. You can read the full article, Hope and Courage: From the Stonewall Riot to Stonewall 50 and World Pride NYC, online here, or pick up a copy of the current issue in the narthex.
After our recent discussion of Ascension being a short-term sanctuary, several have asked what more can they do. The New Sanctuary Coalition has two very concrete ways you can get involved, with frequent training opportunities for both: (1) Pro Se Clinic – The clinic helps people identify ways to get relief from deportation and detention; access other immi-gration-related benefits; understand their rights so they
Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Join us at 6:00 p.m. this Monday, July 22, for the evening Eucharist and to celebrate the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene. We are delighted to welcome Meredith Ward as our guest preacher at that service.