Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church

Yesterday the Rector announced that we would cautiously reopen for in person public worship starting Palm Sunday, March 28. We will have our regular round of Holy Week and Easter Services, which we will also live stream. You must sign up in advance to attend in person More information to follow...

Here are our nine most liked photos from the past year over on Instagram. Blessings and love to all of you for a happy and safe (secular) new year!

Blessings on Christmas Eve! Tonight we will celebrate the Eve of the Nativity of Our Lord with Solemn Mass at 5 PM and 10 PM EST on YouTube. In addition to favourite Christmas hymns, Organist and Choirmaster Dr Richard Porterfield will offer the music of the mass, including works by Brahms, Victoria, Poulenc, and Daquin. Both services will be accessible from the web site: https://www.saintignatiusnyc.org You can access the 5 PM services directly here: https://youtu.be/vfT509...oxxGE You can access the 10 PM service here: https://www.YouTube.com/SaintIgnatiusNYC Tomorrow morning on Christmas Day, we will have Solemn Mass live streamed at 11 AM EST. The service will include some of our favourite Christmas hymns and Organist and Choirmaster Dr Richard Porterfield will offer the music of the mass, including works by Demessieux, Sydney Nicholson, Britten, and Daquin You can access the service here: https://youtu.be/JDdH1Jfjqko

Accord will be with us offering the music of the Mass at our Epiphany Service, which will be streamed on Wednesday, January 6 at 7 PM EST on our YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/SaintIgnatiusNYC

This morning, Sunday, September 6 , at 11 AM EDT we will celebrate the Solemn Mass for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, live streamed on YouTube. Organist and Choirmaster Dr Richard Porterfield will offer the music of the mass, playing as the prelude Reverie (for Celestes) by Thomas H Kerr (1915-1988), and singing the plainchant ordinary (Missa XI: Orbis factor) and proper (Justus es Domine). You can access the service on our website or here: https://youtu.be/rRP7ur07...ybM Coffee Hour follows immediately after on Zoom (see link below in comments).

This morning, Sunday, August 30, at 11 AM EDT we will celebrate the Solemn Mass for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, live streamed on YouTube. Organist and Choirmaster Dr Richard Porterfield will offer the music of the mass, playing as the prelude In dich hab ich gehoffen, Herr (BWV 712) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-2750), and singing the plainchant ordinary (Missa XI: Orbis factor) and proper (Miserere mihi, Domine). Followed immediately after by Coffee Hour on Zoom ...(link below) You can access the service directly here: https://youtu.be/2PSJBBOsL8w

Watch Solemn Mass for the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin today at 11 AM EDT on YouTube here:

After Solemn Mass today at 11 AM EDT on YouTube (link below), please join us around Noon for Coffee Hour on Zoom.

Black Lives Matter

Sunday’s mass is now available here: https://youtu.be/HTRhOAxVaNE

Black lives matter is, in fact, a theological statement. If the Body of Christ matters, then Black bodies matter. It is as simple as that. Black bodies matter very much, constitute an essential element of, and are beloved members of the Body of Christ. When Black bodies are broken, then the Body of Christ is broken. Watch the Rector's Corpus Christi sermon here: https://youtu.be/TPW1K4A44Tg

This week we focus on the Body of Christ, broken and raised from the dead and of which we are members. In this moment, focussed on his Body, we have begun the hard work of discerning how we can become an anti-racist community. Saying that Jesus’ body matters, we must also say that Black bodies matter, that Black lives matter. As we begin this work in prayer, join us Thursday for our Corpus Christi vigil and Solemn Mass and read the Rector's Trinity Sunday sermon here: http://www.saintignatiusnyc.org/Sermons/200607_Blume.html

From the Rector: In the midst of a continuing public health emergency that is far from over, we have been convulsed by the continuing effects of the sin of racism, that has been our nation’s shame from the beginning. I don’t have any easy answers for what has been unfolding in our city and around the country. The duty of the Christian is to pray and act for justice and the healing of the world, cooperating with God in the reconciliation of all nations and all peoples with God..., who is love. Jesus taught, ministered, and preached justice, peace, and love. He advocated on behalf of those on the margins of society, those who were relegated as other in that late antique age. He suffered at the hands of authorities. He knew what it was to be despised and tortured and he died on the cross for the danger his teachings posed. And he destroyed death, hate, and violence when he rose again on that third day. Christians of all races and nations, of all classes of society, are called to be allies in solidarity with the oppressed and marginalised, with our brothers and sisters of all faiths who are suffering and in pain, and to work for justice and peace. Those of us who have privilege and authority and a voice must give space for those voices that have been silenced. We also have a duty to decry racism and violence, especially that inflicted by those who are supposed to keep us safe, and actively work to change a broken system, holding out the priorities of the Gospel as our model. Let us pray: Grant to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind. Amen. Grant to all who mourn a sure confidence in thy fatherly care, that, casting all their grief on thee, they may know the consolation of thy love. Amen. Give courage and faith to those who are bereaved, that they may have strength to meet the days ahead in the comfort of a reasonable and holy hope, in the joyful expectation of eternal life with those they love. Amen Help us, we pray, in the midst of things we cannot understand, to believe and trust in the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection to life everlasting. Amen. Almighty God, who hast created us in thine own image: Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice in our communities and among the nations, to the glory of thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Thanks WCB for making our Pride Lion!