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This Week at Ascension + May 8, 2024
"Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." - Psalm 96
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Weekday Mass Schedule
12 p.m. on Monday & Friday
8 a.m. on Tuesday & Thursday
6:30 p.m. on Wednesday
View the Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Live-stream Mass here
VIA YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK LIVE
Weekday Offices
7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
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From the Rector
At our Lord’s final post-resurrection appearance, he instructs his disciples, “everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled… Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” He then leads them out of Jerusalem to Bethany – the village on the Mount of Olives where expectant crowds waved palm branches and acclaimed him as king – where now our Lord’s triumphal entry is completed by his triumphal exit into heaven.
As our Lord ascends into heaven, he raises his hands and blesses the disciples, like Aaron the priest, who “raised his hands over the people and blessed them...” Our Lord’s final, physical act as he departs this earth is a ritual blessing; and since that first Ascension Day, the act of blessing – making and recognizing the sacred in the world – has been part of the Church’s ministry.
As our Feast of Title, the Ascension of our Lord serves as a wonderful, visual reminder that our charge as a parish is to offer God’s blessing to all who walk through our doors, and those who pass by them, in need of solace and strength. All of us are in need of God’s blessing, mercy, and grace – which we receive week after week, day after day, in the holy sacrifice of the Mass and in the Sacraments of the Church. My hope for us this Ascension Day is that our holy day observances and our participation in the sacred mysteries will further ground us in the charge to offer God’s blessing to all people, beginning on the corner of N LaSalle and Elm.
—Fr. de la Torre
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Columbarium Survey Results Presentation, Sunday, May 19
The columbarium subcommittee will offer a report back to the parish on the findings of the recent survey regarding an indoor expansion of the columbarium. We will also discuss next steps for this project.
The presentation will take place in the nave on Sunday, May 19, following both the
9 and 11 a.m. Masses. Please plan to attend!
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Education for Ministry Open House
Interested in deepening your relationship with God? Want to study scripture with other committed people? Looking for an intimate intentional spiritual community? Seeking a better understanding of how to live a faithful life in today’s world?
Education for Ministry is a program of small-group adult formation developed by the
School of Theology at the University of the South, designed to help us prepare for the
ministry we are all called to as Christians. There are EfM groups across the country
that meet weekly to pursue a structured curriculum with an agenda that includes
worship, study, reflection and shared community. A group that will meet nearby at St.
James Cathedral is forming.
If you would like to learn more, you’re warmly invited to attend an Open House of an
existing Education for Ministry group to experience a session on Wednesday, May 15, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman, Evanston. Please contact Laura Jenkins (laura.m.jenkins@icloud.com or 312-282-9664) for more information or to register for this session.
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Consider being a Coffee Hour host
There are spots available for hosting Coffee Hour after either Sunday Mass! Look for the JULY & AUGUST sign-up sheets in Wheeler Hall.
If you are leary of what hosting a Coffee Hour might entail, speak to Hospitality Committee members Josh or Ellie Simpson, David Reeves, LaVerne Saunders or Carol Noren. They will be glad to help.
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The Prayers of the People
As part of our Sunday offering of the Mass, we bring to God our petitions and thanksgivings. As a community, we do this by bidding the parish’s intentions in the Prayers of the People. If you wish to have someone added to the Prayers of the People, please email Father de la Torre or Mother Murphy-Gill. You can also fill out the prayer request form in the link below. Names will remain on the prayer list for three weeks, unless otherwise requested.
Lord, hear the prayers of thy people; and what we have asked faithfully, grant that we may obtain effectually, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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For our prayers
Meg Brennand, Steve Leguaut, Josh Sherrill, Becky Potter Welsh, Bram Bassford, David Winter, Randy Thomas, Ruby Woods, Carolyn Wiggins, David Schrader, Kari Johnson, Marlea Edinger, Terrence Kumro, John Barry, Jeanne Fitzsimmons, Mary Sliwinski, Ken McPhillips, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Marilyn Labkon, Lee Gould, Florence Jones Clanton, Suzanne Dines, MB Hwang, Juanita Malone, David S. Jones, Richard Francis Tracz, Victor Fernandez, Claire Green, Beth Hall, Sue Lenz, Brenda Martins
Birthdays:
Bishop William Persell, 5/6; Jolene Walsh Jukiewicz, 5/7; Claudia Vargas, 5/9;
Jenna Jones, 5/10
Requiescat in pace:
Sal Martinez, Carol Cade, Rommel Restrivera, Roy Johnson, 5/5/1995; Helen Mary Ekner, 5/6/1997; Rodney Carl Pribbanow, 5/10; Alfred “Jackie” Sawyer, 5/10; Essie Echols, 5/10/2016;
Gail de Priest, 5/11/2013
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them;
May their souls and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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Organ and Choral Repertoire for
May 12, 2024
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ORGAN
Fantasia crommatica à 4 SwWV 121
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
(1562-1621)
At the Entrance Procession
483 ST. MAGNUS (desc. DW)
At the Offertory
THAXTED (desc. DW)
At the Communion
307 BRYN CALFARIA (9 a.m.)
893 (Cantate Domino) ST. OSMUND (11 a.m.)
At the Retiring Procession
219 ACH HERR, DU ALLERHÖCHSTER GOTT
ORGAN
Fantasia à 4 SwWV 114
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
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Mass Setting
Hans Leo Hassler
(1564-1612)
Missa secunda
Offertory Motet
Thomas Tomkins
(1572-1656)
O clap your hands together à5
Chanted Mass Propers
from the Graduale Romanum
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Between Masses, please don’t forget that The Choir of the Ascension has recorded upwards of 60 tracks that you can listen to anywhere you have an internet connection. They can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/choir-of-the-ascension
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Ascension Connections
(with your click and God's help)
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Meeting ID:
792 031 7452
Password: 1133
Join-by-Phone Option: (312) 626-6799
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Weekly Ascension Schedule
For connections:
via Zoom (click here)
SUNDAYS
7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom
9:00 a.m. In-person Sung Mass
11:00 a.m. In-person and Live-Streamed Solemn Mass
VIA YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK LIVE
MONDAY-FRIDAY
7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
Weekday Mass Schedule
12 p.m. on Monday & Friday
8 a.m. on Tuesday & Thursday
6:30 p.m. on Wednesday
View the Wednesday Mass here
VIA YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK LIVE
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Wardens
David Reeves, Sr. Warden
David Reeves, Sr. Warden
David A. Robertson, Jr. Warden
David A. Robertson Jr. Warden
Vestry
Ian Barillas-McEntee, Jay Peterson, Joshua Simpson
Ken Cozette, Elizabeth Simpson, Samuel Sommers (Clerk)
Vicki Dvonch, Nancy Pardee, DiAnne Walsh
Susan Schlough, Treasurer
Finance@ascensionchicago.org
Br. Nathanael Deward Rahm BSG, Parish Office
Office@ascensionchicago.org
Approved minutes of Vestry meetings are always available online to parishioners who request the link. If you would like Internet access to these Vestry Minutes, please email the Parish Office and request the link. Once you access the web page, you can read all recent Vestry meeting minutes.
The link remains live indefinitely. Any parishioner who has the link will not need to request a new link from month to month.
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