For many years, I have felt the season of Lent as a call back into darkness. I can’t help but feel a little lost, even when the call is clear. Even when offered such a clear message like what we hear in Joel and Matthew today: Be pious and steadfast in prayer. It is a simply stated command, but why is it so hard?
Irena Salina’s award-winning 2008 documentary “FLOW: For Love Of Water” investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century: the world water crisis. In the course of 84 minutes, interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits
This Sunday, February 19, following the 11 am service and in honor of Black History Month, we will show the acclaimed documentary film 13th, which centers on race in the American criminal justice system, in the parish hall. Ava DuVernay, director of the film Selma, titled the film after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which outlawed slavery. We are delighted Ms. Diane
Last Sunday our Rector, The Rev. Elizabeth G. Maxwell, delivered a wise and insightful sermon placing the scripture of the day, and our parish life, in the national context. You can listen to her sermon with this link. Please join us anytime Sunday through Friday for sermons, homilies, fellowship and prayer. Everyone is welcome here! Her closing remarks were as follows: “This is a
Ascension Outreach, Inc. and Resistance Cinema free film series will show Trapped, a film by Dawn Porter, on February 7, 2017 at 6:45pm. This documentary is about the women and men who work to protect reproductive choice and the recent restrictive laws that deny women’s right to choose. There is no charge for admission and everyone is welcome. Entrance is through the Parish Hall
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche has invited and urges all to join him this afternoon, February 1, together with Bishops Shin and Glasspool from our diocese and Bishops Provenzano, Wolf and Allotey of Long Island, to bear witness to our Christian values and faith in the face of the discriminatory executive order regarding refugees signed last Friday by President Trump. There will be
This new series begins next Sunday, February 12, after the 11 am service. Over the next year, we are launching an occasional forum series featuring members of our parish who make art in a variety of media, as well as some guest presenters. Our hope is to explore how making art expresses and forms our spirituality, and perhaps along the way to ponder what
February 14, 2017 special Valentine’s Day party sponsored by the Capital Campaign committee and February 28, 2017 Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras event. The February 14th event will be a cabaret evening with performance by Sarah Chalfy, and also a cabaret and jazz singer. For more about Sarah see http://www.sarahchalfy.com/. Check back in February for more details.
On January 6, 2017, Friday evening, everyone is invited to the Festival of Light celebration from 5:00 – 7:30 pm. In addition to the lighting of the church, there will be live circus performers, a reception with live music, refreshment sweets and treats and tours of our historic 175+ year old church. This is an open house for all and our Epiphany celebration, also
There are two services on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2016. The family service is at 5 p.m. and children are invited to help arrange the nativity with the reading of the Christmas story. The music will include familiar hymns for all to sing and a solo by Bora Yoon, soprano. Festal Prelude Music is at 9:30 p.m. followed by Festal Eucharist with the full