Due to extreme weather conditions Church of the Ascension services are cancelled this Sunday, August 28, 2011. We pray that you are all safe and in good care along with your families. The Parish Office will reopen on Monday, August 29th. — The Rev. Shelley D. McDade Associate Rector
Since July 14, Ascension parishioner and seminarian Jenny Landis and her fiancé, seminarian Sam Owen, have been in Haiti, building a playground for the children in the town of Bondo. Follow their trip on the blog they’re posting together, “Haiti 2011,” and you can read some excerpts from their most recent posts here. But be sure you click on a post’s title to read
The public radio program “Sunday Baroque” recently interviewed Dr. Dennis Keene, organist and choirmaster at the Church of the Ascension and the artistic director and conductor of Voices of Ascension. He described Ascension’s magnificent new instrument, the Manton Memorial Organ, what makes it so special and his plans to introduce it to the musical community. You can listen to the interview as a podcast.
Now that we have celebrated the splendors of Holy Week and Easter and dedicated the Manton Memorial Organ with pomp and ceremony, we have been thinking ahead about plans for worship this summer at Ascension. After a year of conducting Sunday services in the Parish Hall during the period of construction in the sanctuary, many of us came to enjoy the intimacy and, in
A Service of Dedication of the Manton Memorial Organ will be conducted on Sunday afternoon, May 1, 2011, at 4:00 p.m. and will showcase the new instrument as well as the Ascension choir. The Right Reverend Catherine S. Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, will preside at the blessing of the organ. To allow for our own parish community to
On an upcoming pilgrimage to Tanzania, where our sister village of Gawaye is, parishioner Ethan Mandel will represent the Church of the Ascension, bringing greetings and gifts to the church in Gawaye. But we need your help to send him there — and then bring him back home!
Barbara Cawthorne Crafton is an Episcopal priest and author. She heads The Geranium Farm, an institute for the promotion of spiritual growth. The Farm publishes her Almost-Daily eMo, a meditation read online by tens of thousands worldwide via email and social media. She has served a number of churches, including historic Trinity Church, Wall Street, St. John’s-in-the-Village in Greenwich Village, St. Clement’s in Manhattan’s theatre
Ascension’s Social Concerns and Action Committee will be meeting next Sunday at 12:30 in the front meeting room of the rectory. The meeting is open to all who are interested in attending. House Eucharists – Be sure to sign up for one of the House Eucharists that will be held during Lent. The sign-up sheets are on the bulletin board in the Parish hall.
At its January meeting the vestry: Heard Fr. Andrew report on the success of the preparations for the re-opening of the sanctuary on Christmas Eve 2010. Heard Fr. Andrew extend his special thanks to the four departing Vestry members, Mary Gaillard, Barbara Head, Steven Hubbard and Stanley Weinberg and to Warden John Grimes, for their service during their current terms of office. Heard Mtr.
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:00 PM Conductor Dennis Keene leads the Voices of Ascension in a chorus and orchestra program of popular and rarely performed works by the master of the Venetian Baroque, Antonio Vivaldi. The color and pageantry of 18th Century Venice will be in full display with this program. Antonio Vivaldi, nicknamed “Il prete rosso” (“the red-headed priest,”) lived his entire life