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This Week at Ascension + October 23, 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 September, Father Poore and I had the privilege to prepare three individuals for the Sacrament of Confirmation. We’re now preparing three adults to receive the Sacrament of Baptism later this year and next. To date, we have offered over 270 masses on Sundays and weekdays, the Daily Office has consecutively been said on Zoom, we have blessed three marriages and a festive renewal of marriage vows, and we have continued to feed and clothe those in need in our neighborhood and beyond. Our overall Sunday attendance is up 20% from this time last year and just this weekend we welcomed over 1,000 guests to our parish church.
I share all this to express my heartfelt thanks for the ministry of our staff, vestry, volunteers, and each parishioner at the Church of the Ascension. None of us can do this on our own and, as I often remind those serving in the liturgy, everything we do in this place is OUR shared offering to God. It is through our various self-offerings to God that something is stirred in us. As we will hear our Lord tell Bartimaeus in this Sunday’s Gospel, we are moved to “Go!” as a sign of faith. The question for us each Sunday is “where will we go?”
Yes, we’ll probably first go to coffee hour in Wheeler Hall. Then to our homes or lunch or the grocery store. However, when we offer ourselves to God and encounter the presence of God in adoration, worship, and praise, none of us can determine where our hearts and minds will go. We can trust that our faith has not only made us well, but that our faith will guide and strengthen us on the journey God has set forth for us.
—Fr. de la Torre
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2024 Fall Faith Formation
Ecclesia Anglicana: Anglicanism &
The Catholic Faith
Sunday, October 27 & November 3 at 12:45 p.m.
To be Anglican is to be Catholic. Yet, as Archbishop Michael Ramsey puts it, "Anglicanism's credentials are its incompleteness... it is sent not to commend itself as “the best type of Christianity,” but by its very brokenness to point to the universal Church wherein all have died." Join us for this three-part series as we survey the identity, history, and practice of Anglicanism and the Catholic faith. A hearty lunch will be provided.
October 27 - The Episcopal Church: An Ancient Faith in a New Land
November 3 - The Continuity of Sacraments and the Development of Liturgy
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Open House Chicago, A Success!
Open House Chicago, held this past weekend, was a grand success for Church of the Ascension. Each year Chicago Architecture Center selects sites to be open to visitors. Church of the Ascension was one of the sites selected. We had beautiful brochures to hand out, we had exhibits, we offered cookies and organ demonstrations. A number of visitors commented on our warm and inviting ambience. We had over a thousand visitors, double the number we have had in the past.
Parishioners who served as docents were:
Adam Bronson, Vicki Dvonch, Ken Kelling,
Cheryl Peterson, Jay Peterson, David Reeves,
David Robertson, LaVerne Saunders, Ellie Simpson, Josh Simpson and Andrew Smith.
Jay Jacot and Cynthia Perrizo, co-chairs of this OHC event, thank everyone who participated.
Pictured (L-R) Docent, Andrew Smith;
Event Co-chairs, Jay Jacot & Cynthia Perrizo; Organist, David White (b. 1959)
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An Invitation from Our Neighboring Episcopal Parish
Join us for a screening of this documentary film presented by St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church in collaboration with the Sanctuary Task Force of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.
Las ABOGADAS
Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis (https://www.lasabogadasfilm.com/about-this-film)
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 7 to 9 pm
St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church (Harding Room)
1424 N. Dearborn Parkway Chicago, IL 60610
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Las Abogadas is the story of desperate asylum seekers at the U.S.- Mexico border from the perspective of a handful of intrepid women attorneys who dedicate their lives to helping them. (Preview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvy7TJDxJks.) This screening is a fundraiser for the Latin American Relief Fund (LARF), a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit that supports a shelter in Celaya, Mexico known as Albergue ABBA (https://latinamericanrelieffund.org/) for migrants who have suffered sometimes life-altering injuries while riding on “La Bestia,” the train on which many people climb to the roof to travel through Mexico to the southern U.S. border.
Attendees are invited to contribute to Albergue ABBA via a
QR code provided at the screening or with a check.
Please reserve a spot at the screening by emailing read.priscilla@gmail.com .
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Consider making a flower donation
Donations may be given in memory of departed loved ones or in thanksgiving for a birthday, anniversary, or an important milestone. Flowers may be donated at the High Altar, the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Shrine of Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. If you’re interested in donating flowers, please see the sign-up sheet on the table in the back of the church.
You can also make a flower donation online by visiting Ascension's PayPal page. Once you’ve made your donation, please email the parish office any personal dedications.
The donation amount to cover the cost of flowers on the High Altar is $50 and on any one of the Shrines the amount is $30.
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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 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER sign-up sheets in Wheeler Hall this Sunday.
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. 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
Alex Dyakiw, Anthony, Bonnie, Richard Gallas, The Rev. D. Maria Neighbors, Grace Ellen Rivera, Robert Pischke, Meg Brennand, Steve Legaut, Malcolm Wood, Randy Thomas, Carolyn Wiggins, Marlea Edinger, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Lee Gould, Florence Jones Clanton, MB Hwang, Juanita Malone, Richard Francis Tracz, Victor Fernandez, Claire Green, Beth Hall, Brenda Martins
Requiescat in pace
Margaret Leonard, 10/20/1990; Mary Potter, 10/21/1980; James Budzban, 10/23/2017;
Delores Peter, 10/23/2018; James Winchester Montgomery, Ninth Bishop of Chicago, 10/23/2019;
David L. Brooks, 10/25/2008; Jean D. Gehrke, 10/26/2007
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
October 27, 2024
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ORGAN
Two settings: Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele
WoO 5 [1881]
Gustav Merkel (1827-1885)
BWV 654a [Weimar ver., 1717]
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Opening Hymn
371 MOSCOW
At the Offertory
567 ST. MATTHEW
At the Communion
465 ACH BLEIB BEI UNS
Closing Hymn
7 RATISBON
ORGAN
Pièce d’Orgue BWV 572
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Mass Setting
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Missa brevis No. 4
Offertory Motet
Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532-1594) Domine vivifica me
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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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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The Rev. Carlos de la Torre, Rector
cdelatorre@ascensionchicago.org
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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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