Morning Prayer takes place in the Chapel at 8:30am on Wednesday mornings. This service will follow the Centering Prayer which takes place from 7:30am-8:15am. All are welcome to the Morning Prayer whether or not you come to the Centering Prayer. Morning Prayer is said from the Book of Common Prayer an takes about 20 minutes. Please join us!
On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 10:30 AM the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine invited everyone to celebrate of the life and work of Blessed Absalom Jones. The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Bishop of New York, will be the celebrant and The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of Indianapolis, will preach at this
Rehearsals continue on Sunday afternoons for our Children’s Choir for girls and boys who love to sing. Rehearsals are held in the church from 12:40-1:45pm and the choir will sing on Sunday, February 5, 2019. No prior singing experience is necessary — just a willingness to jump in and have fun! Please contact Amaranta Viera at vieraamaranta@gmail.com for more information.
On the 12th Night of Christmas…January 5, 2019 from 5pm-7:30pm there is a celebration at Ascension! Please join us for the last festivities and a wonderful winter holiday celebration, the Twelfth Night of Christmas at the Church of the Ascension this Saturday in the church on Fifth Avenue & 10th Street. Twelfth Night is a traditional time for mirth and revelry, and we will
Below is an audio link to the sermon by our Rector, The Rev. Elizabeth G. Maxwell, at the Christmas Eve service on December 24, 2018. Sermons are posted online each week in the section below titled Thoughts. An archive is available there to hear sermons from February 2015 to date.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has invited Episcopalians to take up The Way of Love, a rule of life focused on practices for Jesus-Centered Life. This Advent and Christmas season, we will explore these practices through two chapters of the gospel of Luke and conversation about our own faith journeys. All are invited to join after coffee hour on Sundays December 9, 16, 23 and
Advent, 2018 Dear Parishioners and Friends, I love Advent. I love its themes of hope and expectation, its call to stay awake and prepare. I love the vastness of the vision it holds out for our pondering- creation renewed and reconciled; justice, peace and mercy met together; and all flesh seeing God’s salvation. In this season I imagine our forebears, gathered together in the
Plans are underway for our annual Fall Retreat at Holy Cross. We will being our time together the afternoon/evening of November 9, 2018, and return the following Sunday afternoon. Come away for quiet and refreshment! For more information, contact Father Ed.
This Sunday, October 14, 2018, after the 11 o’clock service we will have a field trip and conversation. Join us in a visit to the GIFT Box installed a few blocks away in Union Square. It is a walk-in street-sculpture which on the outside appears to be an elaborately wrapped gift inviting visitors inside with gift tags promising jobs and opportunities. Once inside, visitors
Every day thousands of people languish in jail simply because they are too poor to make bail. The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization is organizing a Mass Bail Out action to end wealth-based incarceration. The Mass Bail Out is designed to free four hundred women and fifty teens detained at Rikers Island jail. The Mass Bail Out will demonstrate the truth of our