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Annual Meeting this Sunday: February 4, 9:00 A.M.
It's time for our Annual Meeting! Join us at 9:00 a.m. this Sunday, February 4th, as we worship together and attend to the care of our parish, then enjoy a time of fellowship together!
There will be no separate services at 8:00 a.m. or 10:00 a.m. on February 4th.
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From the Parish Administrator
Sally LeBaron
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A "Key" Adjustment
You may have noticed that our front door lock called it quits a couple of weeks ago. Our junior warden, Tom Hussey, tried to have it repaired to no avail...so, now we have a new lock! Instead of issuing new keys to everyone, we are going to try a lockbox system. There is a lockbox to the right of the door that houses a key. Simply use our code on the keypad to get the key to unlock the door and then return the key to the lockbox.
If you would like access, please contact me and I will give you the code to the lockbox. Otherwise, please note that your old key will still unlock the door next to the Chapel of All Souls' at the bottom of the building.
We have also been using a lockbox system with the Reinhart Hall door that was replaced a while ago. The lockbox for that is on the wooden lattice that offers visual refuge from the garbage cans behind it. So far so good! The lockbox also gives us the flexibility to change the key code should we decide it is meet and right so to do.
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Dear Parish Family,
This week I was reminded of that Scripture passage about wisdom coming from the mouths of babes. I don't just mean baby Nora Kate, who kindly cheers me on from the back of the chapel most Sundays (thanks for the smiles, kid), but also the various non-infant young people who took some time to share some of their wisdom with me.
While I was playing my postlude last Sunday, little Mary ambled up to the bench and started gently poking my arm. I vamped on the organ for a bit while she told me that she had made a group portrait for me. She's the one in the middle and I'm the pink one on the right. I used to be afraid of organists when I was a child, so I'm really glad that I get to be part of Mary's posse in the portrait. It reminded me of how very accepted and cared for I feel at Ascension.
I also got to have a fascinating discussion the the Vanberg boys last Sunday. They politely and enthusiastically asked to learn about the organ, so we had a little instrument tour and tried the keyboard out. When they asked me about a particular sound combination of which the organ is capable, I told them that I usually don't use that combination in church because to me it "sounds like doom." I'm a little dark sometimes.
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Christian responded, "Yeah, church is pretty much the opposite of doom." And I was slightly bowled over because he's quite correct.
Thank you, Lord, for reminding me that Jesus loved us and saved us from doom.
Soli Deo gloria,
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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner
February 13, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The "A.Men" are at it again, planning a delightful Pancake Dinner for us on Shrove Tuesday. Come join us on February 13th to share some breakfast-for-dinner as a parish family before we begin the season of Lent!
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Upcoming Events
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Feb. 4, 9:00 A.M.: Annual Meeting
Feb. 9, 7:00 P.M.: The Snow is Dancing: Winter Recital by Emma Riggle, piano
Feb. 10, 1:00 P.M.: The Snow is Dancing: Children's Concert by Emma Riggle, piano
Feb. 11, 9:00 A.M.: Choir Rehearsals Begin
Feb. 11, 10:00 A.M.: Youth Art Class
Feb. 13, 5:00-7:00 P.M.: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner
Feb. 14, 7:00 P.M.: Ash Wednesday Mass
Feb. 17, 5:00 P.M.: Open Door Songwriter Series: Pretty Gritty
Feb. 25, 10:00 A.M.: Youth Art Class
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Parishioner Adventures
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From Tom Hussey, our Junior Warden:
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n Mexico last week getting a start on my attempt to feed the multitudes. I will be looking for a couple of loaves of bread and some multitudes."
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Reflection
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I first saw God when I was a child, six years of age.
The cheeks of the sun were pale before Him,
and the earth acted as a shy
girl, like me.
Divine light entered my heart from His love
that did never fully wane,
though indeed, dear, I can understand how a person's
faith can at times flicker,
for what is the mind to do
with something that becomes the mind's ruin:
a God that consumes us
in His grace.
I have seen what you want;
it is there,
a Beloved of infinite
tenderness.
St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
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If you have a quotation you'd like to suggest for a future Reflection in
The View
, please email it to Emma Riggle at music@ascensionepiscopalparish.org.
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In Our Prayers
Harold Craig
Dan Matarazzo
Janet Mersereau
Today in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer:
Bandon: St. John.
WE PRAY that each of us may be empowered and emboldened to use the gifts for ministry that have been bestowed upon each of us, and to be unafraid to confess the faith of Christ crucified.
Beaverton: St. Bartholomew.
Jeff Littlefield, rector; Pippa Lindwright, assistant rector;
Mikel McClain; Karen Tiegs.
THANKSGIVING for new clergy leadership and the opportunities that await us as we enter into new ideas and relationships. Pray that we may be open to what God has in store for us.
Collect for the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord (February 2):
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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