If you are interested in joining the Church of the Ascension, please consider coming to our Inquirers’ Class. The classes will begin Tuesday, April 10 (from 6:45 to 8 p.m.) and will run for six weeks through Tuesday, May 15. Each week we will look at a different aspect of the Episcopal Church and our commitment and worship to God. Please contact Mother Shelley at MtrShelley@ascensionnyc.org for more information.
Newsletter
Parish News: May 24
In this week’s newsletter, the rector notes Pentecost’s reversal of Babel—not by restoring a single language, but by enabling understanding across difference as each speaks and hears in their own tongue. She treasures hearing parishioners read “God’s deeds of power” in many languages during worship, and invites us to consider what it means to speak of God in our own heart language—whether shaped by mother tongue, place, trust, or profound shared experience. In a time of contempt for difference, Pentecost reveals the blessing of many tongues and the Holy Spirit’s gift of mutual understanding across culture, faith, and ethnic background.
