8am - Holy Eucharist A simple Eucharist service with a sermon
9am - Holy Eucharist for Children and Families A Eucharist service with music and prayers suitable for young children and families ~ Sunday School follows
10am - Holy Eucharist A service with choir, hymns and sermon
Weekday Services
Wednesday, 10am - Public Service of Healing A Eucharistic service with anointing and prayers for healing
Choral Evensongs occur several times a year. Please check back for specific dates
“Men
of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward
heaven?”
The
feast of the Ascension teaches the church that when it comes to God, we are
encouraged to not think, but look. This might sound like strange advice; but
consider the following: whereas thinking
can help us create and understand concepts of universal proportion, seeing demands that we consider what is
open to view; whereas thinking is considered a private, internal matter; seeing
is grounded in a shared world, it connects us to each other and to the world.
Thinking gives rise to grand schemes, seeing identifies the particular, the
interesting, and the strange. We all need to think, to reason , to consider;
but the practice of seeing reminds us that events, people and places are not
just in our head, so to speak, but are before us, in sight, to be beheld[1].
For the disciples gathered on that fortieth day after the resurrection, all
they had was their sight, and that sight witnessed Jesus’ surprising return to
the Father. St. Luke recalls that the
disciples then just stood there, looking toward heaven, before being told by
the angelic host that looking to heaven is not the point of Jesus’ departure,
rather, heaven is the clue to what God has planned for God’s creation.
[1] Genova,
J. (1995). Wittgenstein : a way of seeing. (New York, Routledge), pp. 57-58.
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