S pecial Thanksgiving Edition
Please Join Us: Thanksgiving Day Worship at Ascension

Thursday, November 23, 
9:00 A.M.

Please join us for a short, festive service on Thanksgiving Day. 

This said Mass with hymns will give us an opportunity to give thanks together as a parish, in prayer and in song!




The Angelus, by Jean-François Millet
Our Beautiful New Flags!


We are grateful to Marilyn and Dick Portwood for their gift of a beautiful new American Flag and Episcopal Church flag. We blessed both flags together on October 29th. Thank you, Marilyn and Dick, for these beautiful signs of our church's hospitality!
Upcoming Events

Nov. 26, 9:00 A.M.: Advent Choir Rehearsal

Dec. 3: The Bishop's Visitation

Dec. 3, 9:00 A.M.: Advent Choir Rehearsal

Dec. 3, 10:00 A.M.: Youth Art Class

Dec. 10, 9:00 A.M.: Advent Choir Rehearsal

Dec. 10, 11:00 A.M.: Vestry Meeting

Dec. 10, 4:00 P.M.: Holiday Classics Afternoon Concert

Dec. 17, 9:00 A.M.: Advent Choir Rehearsal

Dec. 17, 10:00 A.M.: Youth Art Class

Christmas at Ascension
One Combined Said Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Sunday, December 24, 10:00 A.M.
There will be only one morning service on December 24.

Christmas Eve Family Mass 
Sunday, December 24, 5:00 P.M.
A family-friendly service of lessons and carols with Eucharist, in which our parish children participate.

Christmas Eve Festival of Lessons & Carols
Sunday, December 24, 9:00 P.M.
A traditional festival of Lessons and Carols led by our Advent Choir, who will sing works by Yon, Willcocks, Cleobury and more. The Eucharist will follow the Lessons and Carols.

Christmas Day Said Mass with Carols
Monday, December 25, 10:00 A.M.
A joyful Mass with carols in celebration of the Nativity. 
Holiday Classics Afternoon Concert

December 10, 2017
4:00 P.M.

On the afternoon of December 10, you are welcome to join us for a relaxed afternoon of Christmas music for voice and piano. Singers  Marion and Eddie Edens , parishioners of Ascension, will offer this fun afternoon of music to us as a special Christmas gift to the parish!

The concert will take place in our parlor, and will feature favorites like "O Holy Night," "Sweet Little Jesus Boy," and "White Christmas." 
Reflection

Let us give thanks to God continually. For, it is outrageous that when we enjoy His benefaction to us in deed every single day, we do not acknowledge the favor with so much as a word; and this, when the acknowledgment confers great benefit on us. He does not need anything of ours, but we stand in need of all things from Him.

In point of fact, thanksgiving adds nothing to Him, but it brings us closer to Him. For if, when we recall the benefactions of men, we are the more warmed by affection for them; much more, when we continually bring to mind the benefits of the Master towards us, shall we be more earnest with regard to His commandments.
 
For this cause Paul also said, Be ye thankful. For the best preservative of any benefaction is the remembrance of the benefaction, and a continual  thanksgiving for it.

- St. John Chrysostom (c. 349-407)
from Homily 25:  Homilies on the Gospel of St. Matthew
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.
Prayer Requests

for Father Steve Norcross
as he recovers from surgery

for Janet Mersereau
beloved wife of Brad


Today in the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer:

Silverton: St. Edward. 
Shana McCauley, vicar. 

Springfield: St. John the Divine. 
Nancy Gallagher, priest-in-charge 
PRAY for us in a time of seeking God's will for our future.


Collect for Thanksgiving Day:

A lmighty and gracious Father, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for the provision of our necessities and the relief of all who are in need, to the glory of your Name; through 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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