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Newsletter for January 23

This week: Online worship Sunday 11 a.m., in-person worship Sunday 6 p.m. at the Meditation & Sacrament service. And Wednesday 6 p.m., an in-person midweek Eucharist. The church will also be open from noon to 3 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for personal prayer and meditation. Please note: Masks are required for all in-person worshipers and visitors!

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Our plans for January services and events

With the rise in Covid infections, the 11 a.m. Sunday service will be live-streamed (only) through Sunday, January 29. We will resume the 6 p.m. Sunday service of Meditation and Sacrament in person on January 23. The church will reopen for weekday prayer and meditation during the week of January 16. For more information, read this message from our rector.

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Newsletter for December 19

The Fourth Sunday of Advent

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.
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Newsletter for December 12

The Third Sunday of Advent

The rector writes: “In the very middle of the Psalm 39’s fifteen verses is this affirmation: ‘My hope is in you.’ Where does such hope, such trusting hope despite doubt, even despite so much that is wrong in the world, come from?”

 
Reminder: Due to health safety protocols, pew reservations are required for both the 5 PM Family Eucharist and the 9:30 PM Preludial Music and Festal Eucharist on Christmas Eve this year. You can reserve a pew for you and the people you feel comfortable sitting with at ascensionnyc.org/ChristmasEve.

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Newsletter for December 5

The Second Sunday of Advent

The rector writes: “What call to gritty, hopeful action is stirring in you this Advent? Where do you sense God in it?” Also in this newsletter: Information about in-person worship, how to worship online with us, news of a new “Women’s Spirituality” group, and the first announcement of our scheduled Christmas Eve services. (Note: due to health safety protocols, pew reservations are required for both the 5 PM Family Eucharist and the 9:30 PM Preludial Music and Festal Eucharist on Christmas Eve.)

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Newsletter for November 28

The First Sunday of Advent

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.”
— T.S. Eliot, East Coker
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