Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
In this week’s newsletter: the rector reflects on this very extraordinary “ordinary time,” you get the service bulletin for the 11 am service (via Zoom) for the Second Sunday after Pentecost; and announcements from the parish and across the diocese show that the life and work of the church continues and needs your financial support, now more than ever, if you are able.
When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness, Night. And it was evening and it was morning, first day.
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![Plaque with the Pentecost ca. 1150–75 South Netherlandish [Met Cloisters]](https://ascensionnyc.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Pentecost-Met_DP102879.jpg)
In this week’s newsletter: the rector provides an update on last Thursday’s “Strive for Justice & Peace” discussion; you get the service bulletin for the 11 am Trinity Sunday service on Zoom; and announcements from the parish and across the diocese show that the life and work of the church continues and needs your financial support, now more than ever, if you are able.
Dear People of Ascension, This Thursday, June 4, at 6:30 pm EDT we will have a Zoom conversation about what next steps we at Ascension are called to take to confront, unlearn and dismantle racism and white supremacy in our own lives, our church and our larger society. Grounded in our baptismal covenant, we will explore what it means to truly love our neighbor
Our beloved parishioner Stacey Carpenter has finished her first year at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. She will spend the summer in Olympia, Washington, doing Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) as a hospital chaplain. Next Sunday June 7, after the 11 AM service, she will join us via Zoom to tell us what this past year has been like, how her sense
Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
Bishop Allen Shin visited us on Ascension Day with art history lessons, insights into the real significance of The Ascension, and reasons for celebration and hope, even in this era of social distancing. Listen to his sermon here.