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This Week at Ascension + April 10, 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
In this Sunday’s Gospel, our Risen Lord opens the minds of his disciples. Namely, he opens their minds to see his Resurrected Body – to see who he is in light of the Resurrection and who they (who we) ought to be in this world in response to this glorious event. Who we and all disciples need to be can be extracted from our Risen Lord’s words and actions, starting with his greeting: “Peace be with you.”
As his disciples, we are invited to follow in our Risen Lord actions: offer his peace, make his Body known, and share in the breaking of the bread. The chief way the Church is invited to emulate our Risen Lord’s actions is in the celebration of the sacred mysteries, the holy sacrifice of the mass. That which, in the words of Dom Gregory Dix, OSB, “week by week and month by month, on a hundred thousand successive Sundays, faithfully, unfailingly, across all the parishes of Christendom, the [people of God] have done.”
In the primordial act of taking, blessing, breaking, and sharing bread, we participate in our Lord’s Resurrection. In the mass, we encounter our Risen Lord just as his first disciples – he is absolute yet mysteries, tangible yet numinous. And it is through this act – the taking, blessing, breaking, and sharing of bread – that we encounter our Risen Lord over and over again. It is through this act that we receive his peace, touch and behold his Body, and share in the heavenly banquet. The good news is that this sacred pattern did not come to an end when our Risen Lord ascended into heaven. Instead, it spread to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.
Yours in Our Risen Lord,
Fr de la Torre
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Art and Faith Eastertide Formation Series begins April 14
Come join us for a 3-week series following the Solemn High Mass where we’ll explore how visual art can deepen our spiritual understanding of what it means to be an Easter people who worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. A light lunch will be provided.
April 14: Art, Ambiguity, and Resurrection
That Jesus rose from the dead is plain, but even the disciples themselves struggle with Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances. Using the meditations offered in three distinct paintings we’ll reflect on how Jesus is calling each of us to live into his Resurrection today.
April 21: Our Lady of Chicago
Professor Matthew Milliner, an art historian who teaches at Wheaton College, will present a talk on appearances of Marian imagery in Chicago. Prof. Milliner is the author of a 4-part series of articles about local Marian images. Click on the following links to read part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.
April 28: He Ascended in Heaven
Often in fine art, the Resurrection and Ascension are depicted in a single moment. We’ll view paintings—that you can even visit in person in Chicago—to uncover and understand themes of the Ascension and its meaning for us.
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Expanded Columbarium Survey
Hopefully by now you have already received a letter explaining some of the exploratory work being done to expand our columbarium space indoors. With that survey is a short survey inviting your feedback and interest in the project. Whether or not you have made plans for when you depart from this life, we hope you will complete the survey. Your feedback is essential to this project. You can complete the paper survey you received in the mail and return it to the church to the attention of Mtr. Murphy-Gill. Or, you can fill out the survey online.
Read a PDF of the columbarium letter here.
Complete the online columbarium survey here.
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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
Carolyn Wiggins, David Schrader, Kari Johnson, Malik Gillani, Marlea Edinger,
Terrence Kumro, John Barry, Jeanne Fitzsimmons, Mary Sliwinski, Neha Nikita Andrade,
Ken McPhillips, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Marilyn Labkon, Lee Gould, Robert Pischke,
Florence Jones Clanton, Rachel Smolinski, Suzanne Dines, MB Hwang, Juanita Malone,
David S. Jones, Richard Francis Tracz, Victor Fernandez, Claire Green, Beth Hall, Sue Lenz, Brenda Martins
Birthday
John Smolinski, 4/8; Gary Lewis, 4/11
Requiescat in pace: Ella Tarleton, 4/9/2024; Charles Clifton Eden, Priest, 4/8/2009;
Thomas Kelly Rogers, Priest, 4/9/1983; Mary Lillian Grimm, 4/9/2008;
Alice Lord Wheeler, 4/10/1896; Charles ‘Charlie’ Morgan Taylor, 4/10/2021;
David Squire Belding, Sr. Priest, 4/11/2014
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
April 14, 2024
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ORGAN
Les Corps Glorieux [1939]
V. La Paix ensoleillée du Divin Amour
(The sun-filled Peace of Divine Love)
Olivier-Eugène Messiæn (1908-1992)
At the Entrance Procession
180 UNSER HERRSCHER (desc. DW)
At the Offertory
212 RICHMOND (desc. DW)
At the Communion
343 ST. AGNES (9 a.m.)
211 HILARITER (11 a.m.)
At the Retiring Procession
193 PUER NOBIS (9 a.m.)
492 FINNIAN (11 a.m.)
ORGAN
Les Corps Glorieux [1939]
VI. Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux
(then shall the righteous shine forth
as the sun in their heavenly Father's realm ...)
Olivier-Eugène Messiæn
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Mass Setting
Henry Ley (1887-1962)
Nine-fold Kyrie
Charles Villiers Stanford
(1852-1924)
Communion Service in B-flat (1879)
Offertory Motet
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
A New Song (1997)
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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