Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Deacon Meredith Ward on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, August 2, 2020.
You can read the scriptures for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost here.
Sermons and audio content from the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in the City of New York
This week, the rector explores the gospel story of the man born blind—a dramatic, often hilarious narrative in which Jesus heals with mud and spit while religious authorities grow increasingly certain the healing is impossible or illegitimate. At the story’s pivot, the healed man offers simple testimony: “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I know. I was blind and now I see.” Mother Liz asks what we know from our own experience that challenges assumptions or contradicts what authorities insist is true, inviting us to follow the blind man’s path: pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Third Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2026.