Sermon: 5th Sunday after Pentecost

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The Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool, guest preacher for Ascension’s Pride Sunday service
We were pleased to welcome the Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool, the Episcopal Church’s first openly lesbian bishop, as our preacher on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, June 27, 2021, which coincided with the celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride in New York City and, of course, in our own neighborhood of Greenwich Village.

      Sermon - Pentecost V 2021 - The Rt. Rev. Mary Glasspool

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You can read the scriptures for this service here.

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