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This Week at Ascension + February 21, 2024
"Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." - Psalm 96
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Wednesday, February 21
Saint Peter Damian
Evening Prayer on ZOOM at 6 p.m.
In-person and Live-streamed
Said Mass at 6:30 p.m.
VIA YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK LIVE
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Stations of the Cross
& Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
on the Fridays of Lent at 6 p.m.
February 16 & 23 and March 1, 8, 15 & 22
Following Stations & Benediction, a vegetarian soup and bread supper will be offered in Wheeler Hall
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New Weekday Mass Schedule
Be present, be present, O Jesus, our great High Priest,
as you were present with your disciples,
and be known to us in the breaking of bread.
On Monday, February 19, we instituted a new weekday Mass schedule. We hope you will make our new weekday Mass schedule part of your Lenten journey.
12 p.m. on Monday & Friday
8 a.m. on Tuesday & Thursday
6:30 p.m. on Wednesday
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From the Curate
My boundaries enclose a pleasant land;
indeed, I have a goodly heritage.
Psalm 16, verse 6
The Prayer Book appoints Psalm 16 for this Sunday, and while we won’t hear it on Sunday per our custom, I find this psalm to be an excellent prayer to make for the second week of Lent. For me, Lent is a time to take stock of the blessings God has bestowed upon me in my life. As a person occasionally prone to envy, my prayer life in Lent usually takes the shape of offerings of thanksgiving to God for what I already have. This verse offered by the psalmist, “My boundaries enclose a pleasant land; indeed, I have a goodly heritage,” reminds us that we don’t need any more in our lives than what God has given us—and to work within the boundaries of these pleasant lands, rather than always reaching for what is not ours.
So whether your Lenten practice has included giving up something or taking on something these 40 days, I invite you to take stock of where God has blessed you in your life this year so far and to return thanks to God. In this season of repentance, we can choose to joyfully set aside our yearnings for what is not ours, what lies beyond the boundaries of our own lives, and instead turn our gaze inward and across our pleasant land, with gratitude, toward all that is bestowed upon us through Jesus Christ.
—Mtr. Murphy-Gill
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Images of Pilgrimage
2024 Lenten Program led by Fr. Robert Petite
Our Lenten program will explore Images of Pilgrimage as they inform the practice of Christian love throughout the Christian’s life journey. A pilgrimage is a journey to visit holy places: historical churches, religious shrines, or other sacred sites in a particular country. We can also speak metaphorically of the whole of life as “a pilgrimage”, a metaphor for the spiritual journey we all take, with all the challenges, demands and hardship that accompany it. Please join us for this rich formation program led by Fr. Petite, following the 11:00 a.m. Solemn High Mass. A hearty lunch will be provided.
Sunday, February 25 – Images of Pilgrimage in the theology of St. Augustine of Hippo (The Restless Journey toward Divine Love)
This week's handout may be read here.
Sunday, March 3 – Images of Pilgrimage in the poetry of Dante Alighieri (The movement of Romantic love to love of neighbor and God).
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About our Written Resource: Images of Pilgrimage; Paradise and Wilderness in Christian Spirituality by Rev. Dr. Robert Crouse, one time professor of Classics at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fr. Crouse was a respected spiritual director, an authority on St. Augustine (354-430) and on Dante (1261-1321). He died in 2011. His book can be found on Amazon in hardcover and Kindle: https://a.co/d/0DVRdcs
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Lenten Quiet Morning Saturday,
March 9, 8 a.m. - Noon
What’s so good about a crucified God?
Mtr. KJ Oh, priest associate at St Paul and the Redeemer, Hyde Park and Emerita Professor in Practical Theology at Bexley Seabury Seminary, Chicago, will lead us as we reflect on what it means to follow a savior who was so easily exterminated and how Jesus’ sacrificial act results in our salvation. Our conversations, while framed by theology, are offered as a time for personal, spiritual exploration rather than as a theological exercise.
Mtr. KJ requests retreatants simply come as they are in comfortable clothing. Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.
This retreat is free of charge. Please register using this sign up form so we can plan appropriately plan for food and space.
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Simnel Cake for Lent IV Coffee Hour
A little bird phoned the parish office with a gentle reminder to include the recipe for Simnel Cake in the newsletter early enough for you to easily prepare one before the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Below you will find the usual two recipes. Happy baking.
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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 MARCH & APRIL 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
Mary Sliwinski, Neha Nikita Andrade, Lynn Wilber, Ellen, Kenneth Phillips, Amy & Amanda Boemer, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Greg Nigosian, Ellen Penrod, Andrew Carlin, Marilyn Labkon, Robert Baily, Lee Gould, Robert Pischke, Derrick Petite, Florence Jones Clanton, David Schrader, Leslie Smebak Gormley, Rachel Smolinski, Sara Reece Glanman, Suzanne Dines, MB Hwang, Juanita Malone, David S. Jones, Richard Francis Tracz, Victor Fernandez, Claire Green, Beth Hall, Sue Lenz, Brenda Martins
Birthday
Courtney Walsh, 2/22; Reece Z. Glanman, 2/22/2023;
Requiescat in pace
Vanessa Rogers, 2/14/2024; Clark Allan Montgomery, 2/22/2003; Geraldine Wilbur Ruhling, 2/22/2005; Laurence (Larry) P. Myers, 2/22/2018; Rosario Vargas, 2/24/2012
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
February 25, 2024
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ORGAN
Voluntaries are omitted on this day.
At the Entrance Procession
148 UFFINGHAM
At the Offertory
10 KEDRON
At the Communion
328 (vss. 1-3 & 8) SONG 46
At the Retiring Procession
448 DEUS TUORUM MILITUM
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Mass Setting
Geoffrey Burgon (1941-2010)
Short Mass (1965)
Offertory Motet
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Ad Dominum dum tribularer
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 High 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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