THIS WEEK AT ASCENSION + October 7, 2020 |
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"Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." - Psalm 96
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You will be able to see how many spots, if any, are still available.
The full schedule for Sunday, including virtual worship and connections,
may be found below.
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Candidates were announced Monday afternoon, October 5. Learn more below. |
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This evening, October 7
Commemoration of Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Evening Prayer 6:00 p.m.
Low Mass, 6:30 p.m.
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The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary
immediately following the 6:30 p.m. mass
and led by members of the
Society of Mary.
All are welcome!
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Sunday, October 11
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 23A)
Virtual and In-Person Schedule
with links for virtual worship and in-person reservations
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Virtual Worship & Fellowship
8:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer
9:00 a.m.
Live-Streamed Mass
10:15 a.m.
Virtual Coffee Hour
ALL VIA ZOOM
11:00 a.m. In-Person Mass - Reservation Required: Click here
Image: Peasant Wedding Dance, Pieter Brueghel II (Flemish, 1564-1637),
After Pieter Bruegel I (Flemish, ca. 1525-1569), The Walters Art Museum
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From Bonnie Scott + 2020-2021 Seminarian |
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Hello!
I’m Bonnie Scott, a second-year Master of Divinity student at UChicago. You’ve likely seen me around Ascension, as a torchbearer or in the pews with my husband Joey Keegin. I am thrilled to be starting a year-long field work placement at Ascension—where I’ve been nourished spiritually since I first attended, almost exactly a year ago. While I have been an active participant in the growing group of young adults at Ascension (and will continue to be!), I look forward to establishing and deepening relationships and talking with parishioners I have yet to have the joy of meeting.
By way of introduction, and hoping that I will get to know more about you soon: I’m originally from Nashville, TN, and grew up in a large, lively family. I attended St. John’s college—a “Great Books” school in Annapolis, MD—where I met my now husband, Joey, and studied the Western canon with a focus on Greek philosophy.
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After graduation I traveled to Lesvos, Greece, where I worked with refugees. There I also fell in love with two feral kittens, Leo and Sappho. I brought them back to America with me, much to Joey’s chagrin. Upon my return, I worked in various non-profits as a call to ordination grew and persisted. I am now following in the footsteps of my grandmother, the Rev. Donna Scott, who has served the Episcopal church as priest since her 1986 ordination in the Diocese of Tennessee. |
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If you can schedule a Zoom meeting, phone call, or anything of the like to get acquainted, please let me know! I will also be at church this coming Sunday, and would love to say hello (at a safe distance of course). Also, feel free to reach out to me via email: bnscott@uchicago.edu
-Bonnie Scott
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Please join me in warmly welcoming seminarian Bonnie Scott!
The 'field work' that she mentions above will provide a general introduction, as time allows, to various realms of parish life. We are presently finalizing a written agreement and are contemplating her ministry at the altar, preaching, pastoral care (remotely until in-person contact is again appropriate and safe), and exploring opportunities to keep alive the young adult connections that were forming last spring, prior to pandemic. The course of Bonnie's ministry here will be supported and supervised by me as well as the seminary's field work supervisor and the coordinator of the year-long Clinical Pastoral Education program at RUSH, in which she is also participating.
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Regarding the announcement of the Candidates to serve as XIII Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago ...
To read the announcement of Bishop Candidates by the Standing Committee of the diocese, click here.
To read about the canonical 'Petition Process' that provides an opportunity for additional Candidates to be considered, through Monday, October 12, click here.
To read about the four present Candidates and their impressive and diverse qualifications as presented by the Bishop Search Committee, click here.
To learn about ground already covered in the bishop search or about the upcoming Candidate Conversations or December election, click here.
Whether or not you've clicked ... please pray.
Almighty God, giver of every good gift: Look graciously on your Church, and so guide the minds of those who shall choose a bishop for this Diocese, that we may receive a faithful pastor, who will care for your people and equip us for our ministries; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. BCP p. 818
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I publish the Banns of Marriage between Shane Patrick Gormley and Leslie Gurina Smebak, who will be joined in Holy Matrimony on October 17, here at the Ascension. I bid your prayers for them and their marriage. If any of you know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, you are to declare it. This is the second time of asking.
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Sunday's Organ Repertoire |
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Opening Voluntary
Mein Jesu, der du mich, op. 122, no. 1
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
At the Offertory
Partita on Jesu, meine Freude LV49
Friedrich Wilh. Zachow (1663-1712)
Closing Voluntary
Fugue in a minor WoO 9 [1856]
Johannes Brahms
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I regret having to remind you that visits to Ascension, other than for urgent or essential matters or for brief personal devotion in the church, are to be avoided. Any (other) visit should be arranged in advance with Br. Nathanael Rahm Thank you for your understanding. |
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Due to COVID-19, Church of the Ascension’s Treasurer and Bookkeeper are limiting the amount of time they spend working in the parish offices. All checks received at Ascension via the United States Postal Service, not always a reliable service in our area, will be bank deposited approximately every 4-6 weeks. They will next be here Thursday, November 5th, for several hours beginning by 10 a.m. You may contact the Treasurer by email anytime at Finance@AscensionChicago.org.
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Ascension Connections
Below
(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)
except for Morning Prayer,
via Facebook (click here).
SUNDAYS
8:30 a.m. Virtual Morning Prayer
9:00 a.m. Live-Streamed Mass
10:15 a.m. Virtual Coffee Hour
11:00 a.m. in-person mass
MONDAY-FRIDAY
6:10 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom
WEDNESDAYS
6:30 p.m. Low Mass
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Yes, but I still haven't Zoomed ... |
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Please give generously as you are able.
Treasurer Susan Schlough has asked me to remind you of Ascension's ongoing expenses at this time. To the extent that you are able, payment on your pledges or the offering of Holy Day or other special gifts will be greatly appreciated. You may still write a check and mail it to the church, or online payment is possible through the buttons at various places on our website. Thank you!
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For our prayers: Charley Taylor, August 'Augie' Alonzo, Jim Berger, Ethel Martin, Dean Pineda, Charlene MacDougal, Marty Stenson, David Byerly, Bonnie Joseph, Catriana Patriarca, Robert Devens, Richard Laibly, Nicholas Carl, Sara, the Howard family, Owen Raymond, Diane Burnett, Sandra, Rhea, the Friedman family, Doreen Rao, Steven Wallis
Birthdays:
Michael J. Vales, 10/4; Ralph Vara, 10/4; Richard William Connaughton, 10/5;
Deacon Charles F. Farrell, 10/7; Edmund Sebkowski, 10/8; David Alan Robertson, 10/10
Marriage:
Ted & LaVerne Saunders, 10/7/1989;
Jim & DiAnne Walsh, 10/9/1976
Requiescat in pace: Adelle M. Norén, 10/7/2003; Gladys Schlough, 10/8/2009
For the Recently Departed: Marcella Marszalek, Catherine Bednar, Chuck Kohn
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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Oops! Sorry!
Once again the church webcam is down, this time intentionally, as we need the related technology for live-streaming. We intend to reinstall the 24/7 webcam in coming weeks (or months).
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Grief and accompanying emotions were evident at the requiem masses here on Friday, for Sister Barbara Louise, OSA, and on Saturday, for longtime Ascension member John Mulcare. But greater at both was a sense of tranquility, continuity, faithfulness. Perhaps the atmospheres were more serene than can be the case with funerals because of the passage of time since death. Or maybe we were taking to heart their long, faithful lives, and imagining the countless lives, including ours, that they had respectively touched in faith. And/or perhaps we had drawn near to the veil that sometimes lifts to blur the lines and breaths between this world and the next. With this last possibility in mind … the well-known poem below, penned in 1910 by Oxford don and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918).
– Fr. Raymond +
Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.
Below: urn for the remains of St. Barbara Louise, OSA, in conjunction with the October 3 Committal in the Ascension columbarium.
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The Very Rev. Patrick Raymond, Rector
Susan Schlough, Treasurer
Br. Nathanael Deward Rahm BSG, Parish Office
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