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Music: Hymns and Anthem for May 23

This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on Pentecost Sunday, May 23, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.

  1. Holy Spirit, Ever Living (Abbot’s Leigh)
  2. Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
  3. If Ye Love Me – Thomas Tallis
  4. There’s a Sweet, Sweet Spirit in This Place (Sweet Sweet Spirit)
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Music: Hymns and Anthem for May 16

This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 16, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.

  1. Hail, Thou Once Despisèd Jesus (In Babilone)
  2. Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether – Harold Friedell
  3. O Lord Most High, Eternal King (Gonfalon Royal)
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Newsletter for June 13

Join us Sunday, June 13, online via Zoom as we celebrate the Third Sunday of Pentecost. The anthem will be the beautiful Eucaristica by Pablo Casals, and our preacher that day will be our own seminarian Stacey Carpenter. Stacey is sponsored for ordination to the priesthood by Ascension, and has just finished her second year at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. Welcome home, Stacey!

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Newsletter for June 6

From the rector: “I would welcome your thoughts about how we at Ascension can be part of healing and transformation in our city. What are the needs you see, from where you sit? What are your dreams for New York’s healing and thriving? What should our priorities be as a community of faith, here on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, witnessing to God’s love for all?”
 
On Sunday, June 6, join us via Zoom for online worship at 11 a.m. as seek to “think those things that are right” and by God’s merciful guiding may do them.

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Music – Hymns and Anthem for May 13

This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on Ascension Day, May 13, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.

  1. Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
  2. O Clap Your Hands – Ralph Vaughan Williams
  3. Crown Him With Many Crowns (Diademata)
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Newsletter for May 30

News from the rector: “Starting Sunday, June 20, we will offer a 9 am Eucharist in the church. Our initial capacity for that service will be 50 — more than we usually have for our early service on Sunday. As on Wednesdays, we will ask that all wear masks and practice distancing whether you are vaccinated or not. We will not have any socializing indoors for now, but the garden provides a lovely space to connect with each other after the service.”
 
This Sunday, May 30, we will worship online 11 a.m. via Zoom, observing the one feast of the Christian year not commemorating an event but an underlying tenet of the faith, “God in three persons, blessed Trinity.” Please join us! Holy, holy, holy!

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Newsletter & Order of Service for the Day of Pentecost

The rector writes: “In the Pentecost story from Acts, the Holy Spirit opens up dreams and visions — new possibilities for being and knowing, acting and serving — to the old and the young, to women and men, to people of every background, faith and status. New truths — both profoundly wonderful and deeply disturbing — are revealed. The Spirit shakes things up, quickening our desire for God’s dream of love and communion, and also showing us how we fall short of that dream, and the ways that we must travel, the amends we must make, and the community we need to respond fully to the divine vision of a renewed and thriving creation.”
 
Join us Sunday at 11 a.m. online, via Zoom, as we celebrate the birthday of Christ’s church, the Holy Spirit come among us to wake us up and show us what is ours to do in God’s world.

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Music – Hymns and Anthem for May 9

This podcast episode features the hymns and anthem recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the Ascension Choir, featuring the Manton Memorial Organ, for the Church of the Ascension’s worship service on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 9, 2021, which took place online via Zoom.

  1. Here in Christ We Gather (Ubi caritas – Murray)
  2. Greater Love – John Ireland
  3. Alleluia, Alleluia (Lux eoi)
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