This Week at Ascension + August 6, 2025

"Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." - Psalm 96

The Ninth Sunday

after Pentecost

August 10, 2025

7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom

9 a.m. Sung Mass

10:15 a.m. Confession available

10:15 a.m. Second Sunday Rosary

11 a.m. Solemn High Mass *

11 a.m. Bulletin may be found here.

Image: Christ Jesus knocking on the Door, Vintage Lithograph

   

*Click to join us VIA YOUTUBE

or VIA FACEBOOK LIVE

✠ 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

From the Rector 

The author of the letter to the Hebrews provides us with one of the most emblematic verses in the New Testament: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Beyond this profound statement, which begins our appointed epistle on Sunday, the author provides us with a litany of case studies from the Old Testament. The author concludes this segment of his exhortation by stating that while these figures lived by faith and received their just rewards, the full promises of faith were not given to them. Not because they were not faithful enough, but because the fullness of God’s promises were bestowed upon all of creation by Christ’s redeeming work. 

For the author of the letter to the Hebrews, faith is not based on our hopes and convictions but on what God has accomplished in our Lord Jesus Christ. As Christians we don’t have faith in the idea of God but in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who became incarnate from the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. Christian faith is not self-produced or invented, it is gifted and inherited from one universal wellspring. Yes, we need to foster and grow in our faith through prayer and our participation in the sacramental life. But even then, when we pray and partake in the sacraments we are joining in our Lord’s prayers (at times, quite literally, bidding the Lord’s Prayer: “Our Father…”) and when we partake in the sacraments were are partaking in our Lord’s own life and ministry. Our Christian faith is not just rooted in Jesus Christ, but a product of what he accomplished on the cross and the empty tomb.

Fr. de la Torre

Missa de Ascensionis

Now on YouTube

As we enter Ordinary Time, we'll continue to use our new congregational mass setting, Missa de Ascensionis, at the 9am Sung Mass and at the 11am Solemn High Mass following Corpus Christi. This rousing composition by our Organist, David White, has been recorded for your increased familiarity and listening pleasure. You can now listen to Missa de Ascensionis on YouTube by clicking here. 

New Online Coffee Hour Sign-Up Sheet

If you're looking for a way to give back and support Ascension's robust parish life, we hope you'll consider serving as a coffee hour host. With our new online sign-up sheet, it's now easier than ever to sign-up for coffee hour: https://tinyurl.com/y66pztfz. A hard copy continues to be available in Wheeler Hall, and will be updated and reprinted every week to prevent accidental "double bookings."

So, what does hosting coffee hour entail? We ask that you set-up, provide and prepare snacks, and clean up Wheeler Hall. You can provide any food items you wish and there are always pastries available in the freezer for easy thawing. Coffee and cold beverages are provided by the church. Reimbursement funds are available for coffee hour expenses, but please make sure to provide a receipt in order to complete a reimbursement request. 

If you have any questions about hosting coffee hour, please speak to Father de la Torre or Hospitality Committee members Josh or Ellie Simpson, LaVerne Saunders or Carol Noren. They will be glad to help and guide you.



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 the Parish Office.

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.



THE PARISH PRAYER LIST

LaVerne Saunders, Jose Vargas, Marcela Simpson, Tom Ehlen, Christina Kimmel, Lynette Ngumi,

Daynen Heldt, Mary Tarnow, Charles Lewis, Billy Smith, Alfredo Caliva, Nate Cole,

Ed Blatz, Joseph Isaac, Samuel Gibbons, Marlea Edinger, Elizabeth McLaughlin, MB Hwang,

Juanita Malone, Richard Francis Tracz, Victor Fernandez, Claire Green, Beth Hall,

Brenda Martins

Birthdays

Cassie Zelazny, 8/6/2019

Requiescat in pace

Lori Cannon, 8/3/2025; Jeanne Kelly, 8/3/2025, Jeffrey Charles Holliday;

Elizabeth Reyes, 4/24/2025; Virginia Reyes-Kessel, 7/17/2025; Carolyn Wiggins, 7/18/2025;

Mary Lou Devens, 8/5/2020

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them;

May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.



Organ and Choral Repertoire for

August 10, 2025

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

Ascension Connections

(with your click and God's help)

Our website home page --

often with up-to-date info/links.

Participate in Ascension masses at our YouTube Channel. (Look for other connections options soon.)

Our Facebook page:

Videos, upcoming events and more.

Weekly Ascension Schedule

For connections:

via Zoom (click here)

SUNDAYS

7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom

9 a.m. Sung Mass

11 a.m. Solemn High Mass

VIA YOUTUBE or FACEBOOK LIVE

MONDAY-FRIDAY

7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom

6 p.m. Evening Prayer via Zoom

Weekday Low 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

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.