Listen to the sermon preached by Mother Liz Maxwell on the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 12, 2021.
You can read the scriptures for this service here: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Psalm 116:1-8; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38.
Sermons and audio content from the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in the City of New York
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.
Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2026.