By Sarah Streitwieser Out of Stock It has been exactly 3 weeks and 3 days since the last time I received Holy Communion. It was a Tuesday, and my children were out of school for spring break. News of the pandemic was settling upon us like a heavy fog. The alternate reality of our new […]
Author: Sarah Streitwieser
Essential
By Erin Waters It hit me. It hit me that I can no longer drive to our parish and go to adoration whenever I want. I can’t go to daily mass when I want. I won’t see my friends. I can’t take my kids to school, the park, the zoo, or activities. I can only […]
Macro World
By Ali Lomshek Seeing “Macro” in a Time of Quarantine I was gifted a macro lens for Christmas. I’d been pining for a way, through imagery, to get even closer to some of (in my opinion) the most interesting photography subjects. These subjects are not necessarily people (although I love photographing people!), but things-small things! […]
Veneration of the Cross
Ascension’s Veneration of the Cross service will live stream at 3:00 p.m. on Good Friday. This practice has been around since the fourth century. According to tradition, St. Helen discovered a fragment of the cross on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The cross was brought forward and placed on an altar where the priests and people […]
Foot Washing, Family Style!
My children particularly love Holy Thursday Mass. There is the surface reason — a chance to stay up late on a school night; and then there is the deepest reason — a not so subtle hope against hope to be selected for the foot washing ceremony. I can never bring myself to explain that the […]
Washing Feet
By Sarah Streitwieser The Mess There is a story behind the mess, a tale that has become a fixture in the mixture of fact and folklore that makes up our family history. I’ll let you imagine the details, but the story involves our curious and mechanically minded 7-year-old, a siphon, and an ill-fated fish. Ten […]
Tears of Holy Longing
By Melissa Hanks In talking to my friends about the beautiful gift of adoration this past weekend, one mentioned the tears of holy longing that filled her car as Fr. Viet passed by with the monstrance containing our Blessed Sacrament. I have really dwelt on this since reading those words. How fitting that we celebrated […]
Thy Will Be done
By Erin Simmons I never thought this day would come. The day I sat and watched my beloved church and the Mass from a screen in my sitting room. The sitting room we have now converted into a chapel somehow falls short in all the ways that matter during these times of uncertainty. I watch […]
I Do Not Like This
By Corey Grace “I do not like this here or there. I do not like this anywhere.” These words written by the infamous, poetic, and distinguished author… Dr. Suess (This should give you a clue about the books I’ve been reading lately — thank-you homeschooling! ) have been on constant repeat in my mind for […]
Gather Apart
Join us for Prayer and Eucharistic Adoration Gather Apart with Christ and your Parish Community! What: Join us for prayer and a reflection led by Fr. Tom, followed by a Eucharistic procession led by Fr. Viet (due to social distancing guidelines, the procession will not include anyone else). Safety: We have a plan to keep you — and everyone else […]