May 22nd from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Ascension Cafeteria

Transportation provided within North Minneapolis. Please call for a ride by 3:30pm: 763-228-5409

The Peace Dinner community is celebrating life in abundance!  Now in its fifth year, our monthly Peace Dinner continues to be one of the primary ways that the parish lives its mission to provide a sanctuary in which all are invited to recognize, acknowledge and live God’s presence.  All are invited to join us as we live into the fullness of our life and ministry in North Minneapolis.

The Peace Dinner is a collaborative effort between Church of the Ascension and The Liemandt Foundation and brings families and youth from our neighborhood, school, and wider community together to create a time and place conducive to mutual relationship building where all voices can be heard, community and family treasures can be recognized and celebrated, and genuine needs can be served. At each gathering a family style dinner is served, together youth and adults lead positive activities for all ages, and lasting friendships are made.  Our time together is guided by Search Institute’s Developmental Assets®, 40 common sense, positive experiences and qualities that help influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible, successful adults. (http://www.search-institute.org/developmental-assets).

At the heart of the dinner’s success is the Peace Dinner Youth Team.  Supported by Ascension parishioner, John Dols, ten youth take responsibility for emceeing the evening, an intergenerational mixer, and running gym games for kids.  The Youth Team serves as a model for the servant leadership, hospitality and community building that has become a hallmark of the program.  A diverse group of youth, they have developed friendships across lines of difference that often serve to divide us from one another.  All youth are invited to learn more about this unique opportunity to grow as leaders.

If you have any questions please contact Liz Coenen, Executive Director of the Liemandt Foundation, at 612-875-1306 or www.liemandtfoundation.org

“He made it into an active ritual of servant-hood”

Quotes from Richard Rohr

In the Washing of the Feet, every age, gender, skin color was represented here at Ascension.  The line was long and the pace was patient.  The actions were moving and touching.  To see our priests getting their feet washed and doing the same to their flock, to see a 60-year-old man washing a toddler’s small feet, to see our beloved deacon couple do the same, perhaps for the last time, and then share a kiss, is seeing Christ living and moving and being among us.

We silently and reverently pray and go out to the world, being Christ’s hands and feet and heart.

By  Betty Lou Miller

• 7:00 PM Bilingual Unity Mass

Good Friday April 6

• 1:00 PM English Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
• 6:00 PM Bilingual Living Stations of the Cross
• 7:00 PM Bilingual Service

Holy Saturday April 7

• 5:00 PM Bilingual Unity Mass Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday April 8

• 9:30 AM English Mass
• 11:30 AM Spanish Mass

May 22nd from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Ascension Cafeteria

Transportation provided within North Minneapolis. Please call for a ride by 3:30pm: 763-228-5409

The Peace Dinner community is celebrating life in abundance!  Now in its fifth year, our monthly Peace Dinner continues to be one of the primary ways that the parish lives its mission to provide a sanctuary in which all are invited to recognize, acknowledge and live God’s presence.  All are invited to join us as we live into the fullness of our life and ministry in North Minneapolis.

The Peace Dinner is a collaborative effort between Church of the Ascension and The Liemandt Foundation and brings families and youth from our neighborhood, school, and wider community together to create a time and place conducive to mutual relationship building where all voices can be heard, community and family treasures can be recognized and celebrated, and genuine needs can be served. At each gathering a family style dinner is served, together youth and adults lead positive activities for all ages, and lasting friendships are made.  Our time together is guided by Search Institute’s Developmental Assets®, 40 common sense, positive experiences and qualities that help influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible, successful adults. (http://www.search-institute.org/developmental-assets). 

At the heart of the dinner’s success is the Peace Dinner Youth Team.  Supported by Ascension parishioner, John Dols, ten youth take responsibility for emceeing the evening, an intergenerational mixer, and running gym games for kids.  The Youth Team serves as a model for the servant leadership, hospitality and community building that has become a hallmark of the program.  A diverse group of youth, they have developed friendships across lines of difference that often serve to divide us from one another.  All youth are invited to learn more about this unique opportunity to grow as leaders.

If you have any questions please contact Liz Coenen, Executive Director of the Liemandt Foundation, at 612-875-1306 or www.liemandtfoundation.org

Saturday, March 24, 2012 at Church of the Ascension 1723 Bryant Ave N, Mpls

3:30 PM Mass in the Church

4:45 PM Social Hour in the Cafeteria

5:15 PM Corn Beef and Cabbage

$22/person - reservations must be accompanied by a non-refundable payment of $22/person and received no later than Friday, March 16. Space is limited and reservations are filled on a first come, first served basis. Call the parish office with any questions at 612-529-9684. Tickets will be mailed March 19. 

St Patrick’s Celebration Flyer and Registration Form

10:00am – School Mass

7:00pm – Bilingual Mass

Christmas Eve
3:30 PM – Carols
4:00 PM – Mass

Christmas Day
9:30 AM   – Mass in English
11:30 AM – Mass in Spanish

Nochebuena
03:30 – Villancicos
04:00 – Misa en Inglés

Dia de Navidad
09:30 – Misa en Inglés
11:30 – Misa en español

New Year’s weekend Masses are as follows:

Saturday, December 31
3:30 PM

Sunday, January 1
9:30 AM   – Mass in English
11:30 AM – Mass in Spanish

The parish office will be closed the following dates:

• Friday, December 23 at noon
• Monday, December 26
• Friday, December 30
• Monday, January 2

Beginning this fall, we will present A Future Full of Hope; a program of theological, spiritual and personal formation. A Future Full of Hope is designed to deepen your involvement and your relationships in your home, in our faith community and in the broader community.

If you are interested in participating in this important formational ministry, please contact the parish office at 612-529-9684.

Schedule of Meetings

Note: all prospective participants must attend the meeting on October 6th and should plan to attend all subsequent meetings. For more information contact the parish office.

Thursday, October 6 and 20, 2011

Saturday, November 5 (Retreat)

Thursday, November 17

Thursday, December 1

Thursday, January 5 and 19, 2012

Thursday, February 2 and 16

Thursday, March 1, 15 and 29

Triduum: April 5–8

Thursday, April 19

Thursday, May 3 and 17

General Meeting Schedule

6–6:30 PM Dinner

6:30–6:45 PM Prayer

6:45–8:15 Theme/Content

8:15–8:30 Prayer/Announcements

Latino members of our parish have signed up to bring some of their favorite foods from their home countries, so you can expect the culinary delights as you’ve enjoyed in years past. We are still looking for more people to bring food representing their own traditions; if you would like to bring a dish to the event, please contact the parish office at 612-529-9684.

Proceeds from food sold at the event will go to benefit the Our Lady of Guadalupe Committee as they prepare to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe this December.

If you have any questions about the Fall Fiesta, please contact the parish office at 612-529-9684. Whether you come to eat, to dance, to sing, or to be among your friends and neighbors, we are looking forward to seeing all of you at this great event on the 11th.

As you probably remember from your own school days, the first weeks of a new school year are an exciting and challenging time for teachers and students alike. This week, take a moment to remember our Ascension staff and students in your prayers as we wish them a productive, safe and successful school year.