Ascension Sunday - May 17, 2026
Please join us - in person or online starting at 10:30 - as we celebrate the Ascension of Christ this Sunday
Here's what you can expect at Glebe St-James on this May 17 Sunday:
- Susan Palmai will welcome us.
- Marsha Hay Snyder will acknowledge that the land on which we gather and work is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Algonquin People, unceded and unsurrendered.
- Barbara Coyle will read the scripture, Acts 1:6-14.
- Rev. Dr. Teresa Burnett-Cole will lead us in worship.
- Paul Grose and the choir will lead us in music and song. The Gift of Music this week will be GF Handel "Hallelujah" arranged by Mervyn Warren, Michael O. Jackson and Mark Kibble
- Sunday's anthem celebrates Ascension Sunday with a piece from Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, a 1992 gospel album that reinterprets the 1741 oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel using African-American musical genres.
- The prelude and postlude are from the collection “Jazz Inspirations for Organ” including:
- “Be Thou My Vision” is by Zsolt Gárdonyi, a Hungarian-German composer, organist and theorist from Würzburg who incorporates jazz elements into his compositions. The tune is from the 1919 Irish hymn tune SLANE.
- “Strong-Tower Postlude” is by Matthias Nagel (b.1958), a German church musician from Dusseldorf who specializes in jazz and pop music for worship. The piece is inspired by the 1529 Martin Luther hymn tune EIN FESTE BURG (“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”).
Here is the bulletin for the service which allows you to follow along with the words of texts, hymns, songs, and prayers. You can
stream the service live at 10:30 am on YouTube.
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