Podcast
Sermon: Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 19, 2025.
Newsletter
Parish News: January 19
In this week’s newsletter, Mother Liz reflects back on her ten years so far as rector at the Church of the Ascension. Also this week: parishioners who have pledged to support the church will receive email invitations to vote online in this year’s vestry and warden elections in anticipation of our 2025 annual meeting, which is always held the last Sunday of January: in other words, next week!
Podcast
Sermon: The Baptism of Our Lord
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord, January 12, 2025.
Newsletter
Parish News: January 12
This week, Mother Liz lets us know about the risk of deportation for a friend of the parish, Ravi Ragbir, founder and director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, and what those of us who are moved to help can do.
Podcast
Sermon: Epiphany Eve
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Eve of Epiphany, January 5, 2025.
Newsletter
Parish News: January 5
This year, we’ll celebrate the second Sunday after Christmas as the Eve of the Epiphany (“We three kings of Orient are…”). In that context, Mother Liz says: “We have much work to do as we bear the light of Christ in the suffering, questioning, challenging places of our world. May we do it gladly and grateful for each other’s company — never forgetting to make music in our hearts.”
Podcast
Sermon: Christmas Eve
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024.
Podcast
Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Advent
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 22, 2024.
Newsletter
Parish News: December 22
On this, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the rector asks: “How do you name the God whose coming we await?”
O come, Wisdom from on high, ordering all things, teaching us the right path.
O come, Adonai, Majestic One revealed in burning bush and Sinai’s law. Blaze up in us with all your saving power.
O come, root of Jesse, source of all things, stand as a sign among the nations, come and deliver us.
O come, key of David, you open and none can shut; come and free the prisoners who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.
O come, Dayspring, break upon us and chase away the clouds of gloom, call us to awaken.
O come, desire of nations, heal our divisions and bind our hearts in one.
O come, o come, Emmanuel!
Podcast
Sermon: Third Sunday of Advent
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2024.