You are invited . . .

IF YOU HAVE VISITED US in downtown Washington, D.C., we hope you will come again. If you have never visited us, we invite you to come taste and see how gracious the Lord is.

NOTICE

Our Priest Associate, Fr. Ronald Conner has taken ill and won’t be able to celebrate the weekday masses this week, Monday,16 August to Saturday, 21 August 2010. At this time, our normal schedule of masses on Sunday, 22 August will not be affected. Please keep Fr. Conner in your prayers and check back later in the week about possible changes to next week’s daily masses.

Opportunities to welcome visitors from the Washington area, other parts of the the United States, and other countries always give us great pleasure.

We extend a special invitation to new residents in our rapidly revitalizing neighborhood and to students from area universities and the nearby Virginia Theological Seminary.

Our parish

We are a diverse, urban congregation of families and individuals from both the immediate neighborhood and the entire Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Some parishioners come from as far away as Baltimore, Annapolis, and Richmond.

Church facade Corpus Christi procession

If you would like more information about our parish, please do not hesitate to explore this web site or to contact Father Davenport in person, by telephone, fax or email at the office during the week or after any of our services.

If you have no church home, we invite you to worship with us.

Location and services

Our buildings are located at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and 12th Street, N.W. in downtown Washington, DC. Our main Sunday service is High Mass and sermon with choir and organ, at 10:00 am. Child care is available during the 10:00 am mass.

Sunday Low Mass is at 8:00 am at the high altar, and at 12:30 pm in the St. Francis Chapel.

During the week, daily masses and evening prayer attract longtime parishioners and others who work in downtown Washington and on Capitol Hill.

THE PARISH of the Ascension and Saint Agnes, affirming its faith in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as declared in holy tradition and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, identifies itself as a congregation in the One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic Church, in the Anglican Communion, and a parish in union with the Episcopal Church in the United States. The parish has become nationally known for the beauty of its music and liturgy and for its sound Gospel preaching. It serves as a home away from home for many traditional Anglicans in the Episcopal Church of the USA, and as a link in the chain of parishes that adhere to traditional Anglo-Catholic faith and practice