PARISH NOTES
If you are visiting or new to Saint Ignatius, we hope that you will feel welcome and at home.
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Worship
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Capital Campaign: Saint Ignatius at 150
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Outreach
If you wish to contribute to an Outreach initiative, please use the Paypal on the front page and choose “Rector’s Discretionary Fund or send a check payable to Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church with “RDF” in the memo line.
You can find the library of all our past services on our YouTube channel
We continue the following online offerings on Zoom (all times are EST). Links to all online services can be found here:
Compline is said Mondays at 9:00 P.M.
Evening Prayer is said Tuesday - Thursday at 6:00 P.M.
The Great Litany and Supplication is said on Fridays at NOON
If you are worshipping with us in person, you may leave your offering in the plate when it is passed by the ushers at the Offertory. You can also donate using the QR Code in the leaflet or PayPal button on our web site from your mobile device.
If you cannot be with us in person, there are many ways for you to fulfill your Annual Stewardship or Capital Campaign pledge, or to make a donation to the church. The easiest way for you to do this is via PayPal, accessed by clicking the Donate button on the front page of our website. Your support remains essential to us so we can serve you and our community, and maintain our historic property.
Stewardship 2023
Being a formal member of the parish means being regular in your attendance at worship and making a gift of support to the church, usually through a financial pledge. Your regular pledges to the church allow us, among other things to buy supplies, make repairs to the building, pay our share to the diocese, and, most importantly to pay our staff, so we can have beautiful worship and music, education programs, outreach ministries, and provide pastoral care for you, our members.
We have now launched our 2024 Stewardship Campaign. In order to ensure we can continue our ministry and programs and create a realistic budget it is essential that we have your firm commitment to support the church in the coming year as early as possible. You are essential to our ministry!
Once again we are conducting our every member canvas for Annual Stewardship and to check in with you.
Read the Stewardship Brochure here
Click here for our Online Pledge Form
Click here for a downloadable pledge card and direct debit instructions
Make your pledge payment with PayPal below:
At this time your continued support is especially important. To make an annual stewardship or Capital Campaign pledge payment, or make a one-time gift or offering, click here |
Saint Ignatius at 150 Capital Campaign
We have exceeded the initial goal of our important, generational Saint Ignatius at 150 Capital Campaign, and are still hoping to meet our stretch goal of $750,000. As Peg Breen, president of the Landmarks Conservancy, said when she spoke to us at thebeginning of the capital campaign, and encouraged us in our work. She said, “The people who built Saint Ignatius had faith. They built it to honor God, to give themselves a beautiful worship space, and intending that Saint Ignatius would stand, as it has since 1903. You are redeeming that faith, and passing a legacy on to a future congregation.”
This dual effort is essential for us to both maintain our ministries and program in 2024 with our stewardship pledges and ensure our future with our gifts to the campaign.Now that the pledges have been made, it is essential that they are fulfilled.
Please visit the Saint Ignatius at 150 campaign website.
You will all have received in the mail information about Stewardship. If you have not already, you will soon be contacted by a member of the Stewardship and Campaign Committee who will wish to discuss your pledge and anything else you wish to talk about the life of the parish. Please take the time to talk. You will find more information about Stewardship, Pledging, and Parish Membership on our website.
We are most grateful to those who have already made their 2024 Stewardship pledges. We have had a wonderful start and we hope you will keep your pledges coming!
If you have not pledged, please consider making a pledge at this time. Yoiu can find an online pledge form here.
We have made it easy to make your contributions. As many do already (thank you!), you can pay through direct debit (contact us for information) and you can now pay by credit card here or use PayPal below:
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At this time your continued support is especially important. To make an annual stewardship or Capital Campaign pledge payment, or make a one-time gift or offering, click here |
Please contact Abigail Plumer or stewardship chairman, Clive McKeef for additional information or with any questions.
Christian Formation
For some reading and reflection, take a look at our sermon archive.
Links to Daily Office offerings online can be found on our calendar page.
Adult Education offerings as announced
Youth Group and Sunday School are currently suspended. Check back for more information.
Christian Formation for Youth: Our program for 7th to 11th graders continues under the leadership of the Rector and our seminarian, and meets one Sunday each month at 5P.M.. The program, which is a combination of fellowship, worship, and study, will also include a number of special events. For more information, please contact the Rector.
Sunday Christian Formation for Children: Oour Sunday School meets following the 9 A.M. Mass, getting started around 10:10 A.M.. We offer childcare for children under seven years of age from 9 A.M. through coffee hour. Older children are encouraged to attend mass and are welcome to serve as readers, ushers, and acolytes.
Pastoral Care The clergy are available for in person pastoral care, including hospital and home visits. We are also available by phone, email, and on Zoom.
The Leopards: Helping Parishioners Help Each Other
Might you have an occasional hour or two to help a fellow parishioner who is temporarily homebound or otherwise laid low? Grocery shopping, dog-walking, or accompanying someone to the doctor or to church is a simple, useful, and practical way of caring for one another within the St Ignatius community.
Or perhaps you would like a St. Ignatius Leopard in your life. If you are homebound from illness, a bad back, or post-surgery and need a little help with shopping or cleaning, or need someone to accompany you to a doctor's appointment or to church, we have a group of parisioners eager to help out.
The Leopards, led by Deacon Kahn and Lucy Kuemmerle, are hard at work formulating ways to get people the material help they need, such as groceries and supplies, as well as maintaining connection. If you need help or want to volunteer to help, you can contact Deacon Kahn or Lucy Kummerle here.
Prayer List: The weekly intercessions list is found in the Sunday Leaflet. The entire list of those for whom our prayers for healing are offered, which you will find on the next to last page of this Leaflet, will always be prayed in full on our Wednesday evening healing Masses.
If you wish to place yourself or someone else, whether a member of the parish or not, on the prayer list, please contact the office either by e-mail or phone (212-580-3326). Please do let us know if you or a member of your family or a friend is sick and would like either our prayers or a visit from one of the clergy. In these days of strict privacy laws we will not know you or a member of your family is in the hospital or ill unless you tell us. Names will be placed on the list for six weeks, after which time they will be removed, unless renewed. Please contact the parish office to place names on the list. Names submitted by Wednesday 12 Noon will appear in the following Sunday Leaflet.
Ushering at St. Ignatius
Ushers welcome people as they enter the church, take up collection, and assist in other ways throughout the service. St. Ignatians who would like to serve as ushers are warmly invited to speak to any of the regular ushers. We will pair up new ushers with more experienced ushers so that there is plenty of support in learning the ropes. Please make yourself known to us on Sunday so we can include you in this ministry! Or contact Churchwarden Holly Hughes
Toiletries for Soup Kitchen Guests
We like to give our guests bags of toiletries. If you have unopened shampoos and soaps from your travels, or could pick up small toothpastes and hand lotions, we have a basket by the West Avenue door to drop them in.
As we all know, using social media sites allows us to get information to our members and friends efficiently and quickly. It drives traffic (that means people) to our web site where there is lots more information about our parish. We are finding that most people who walk through our doors for the first time have somehow found us on the internet. Increasing our on-line presence allows us to reach more people who may be looking to find a church home and make it here at Saint Ignatius.
