This Week at Ascension + April 10, 2024

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

The Third Sunday of Easter

April 14, 2024

7:30 a.m. Morning Prayer via Zoom

9 a.m. Sung Mass

10 a.m. Confession Available

11 a.m. Solemn Mass,

In-person & Live-streamed

Followed by the Rosary

The 11 a.m. bulletin may be found here.

Click to join us VIA YOUTUBE

or VIA FACEBOOK LIVE

Image: Christ Appears to the Apostles Behind Closed Doors (1308-11), Duccio Di Buoninsegna

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

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



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.

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.

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.



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.

Share your prayer requests here.



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.



Organ and Choral Repertoire for

April 14, 2024

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

9:00 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

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.