June 8: The Week Ahead
News, needs, events and opportunities for worship, service, and fellowship from the Church of the Ascension. The work and witness of the church continues whether we’re in person or online, gathered near or far.
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Parish Newsletter & Order of Service for Trinity Sunday
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.
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Sunday Forum, June 7:
Seminarian Stacey Carpenter
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
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Parish Newsletter & Order of Service for the Day of Pentecost
Read the weekly newsletter from the Ascension parish office, usually sent out via email each Friday morning. During our time of online worship, the newsletter includes the Sunday Order of Service bulletin, as well as instructions on how to attend services either through the Zoom app on your computer, tablet or phone, or by dialing in by telephone.
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Parish Newsletter & Order of Service for the 7th Sunday of Easter
Read the weekly newsletter from the Ascension parish office, usually sent out via email each Friday morning. The newsletter includes a message from the Rector, instructions on how to attend services via Zoom login by device or telephone, a weekly calendar and the bulletin for Sunday services at 11am. Please write to info@ascensionnyc.org if you would like to be added to the email distribution list.
Parish Newsletter for Sixth Sunday of Easter
The following is a link to the Weekly Constant Contact email from Ascension that is sent out each Friday morning. The email includes a message from the Rector, instructions on how to attend services via Zoom login by device or telephone, a weekly calendar and the bulletin for Sunday services at 11am. Please write to info@ascension if you would like to be added to
Message from the Rector for the Second Sunday of Easter
Dear people of Ascension, Alleluia! Christ is risen! Although we were not physically together, our worship this Holy Week and Easter was deeply meaningful and full of love and spirit. I am grateful to everyone whose creativity, hard work and skill made our services happen, and happen beautifully. Thank you to my dear clergy colleagues for powerful, soulful preaching and leadership; to Dr. Keene
Join the Sunday Service April 19th at 11am
From your computer, laptop, pad, smart phone, or other device, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/322793633 If you do not have a device with a camera, you can still join with your phone by dialing the following number and enter the meeting ID: 929-205-6099 Meeting ID: 322 793 633 You will be prompted to join the meeting. You may be asked to download the Zoom app
Lay Homily for Wednesday in Holy Week
As part of a beloved Ascension tradition, we will have lay homilists on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week. Kate Rutherford was the homilist on Wednesday. The Gospel for Wednesday in Holy Week, April 8, 2020 John 13:21-32 When I begin to think about a reflection like this, I look for the way in – a door – to understand how the readings
Homily for Tuesday in Holy Week
As part of a beloved Ascension tradition, we will have lay homilists on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week. Rusty Moore was the homilist on Tuesday. The Gospel for Tuesday in Holy Week, April 6, 2020 John 12:20-36 In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus is telling the crowd of his impending death. In John’s Gospel, Jesus says, “The hour has come for the Son