The Church of the Ascension

06/12/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 7, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/06/sermon-pentecost-2-2026/

The picture shown here is of a mosaic, depicting Jesus healing the woman with hemorrhage, in the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, in Ravenna, Italy.

06/05/2026

06/04/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on Trinity Sunday, May 31, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/05/sermon-trinity-2026/

The image shown here is a detail from the Great Canterbury Psalter, ca. 1190, found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Each miniature depicts a stage of the creation: God creating light, God creating the firmament in the midst of the waters, God separating the waters from the earth, God creating the sun and moon, God creating the birds and fishes, and God creating humankind.

05/27/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Feast of Pentecost, May 24, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/05/sermon-pentecost-2026/

05/22/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 17, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/05/sermon-easter-7-2026/

The image shown here is of a print, "Two Separate Worlds Secular and Spiritual" (1975), by artist Edie Mae Herrel.

05/13/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Ed Chinery on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 10, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/05/sermon-easter-6-2026/

The image shown here is of a painting, “The Tax-Collector’s Office,” from the workshop of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, 1564-1638, and is part of the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

05/08/2026

We are collecting parishioners' and friends' memories, appreciations and tributes for Dennis Keene to present to him on the day of his retirement, Pentecost Sunday, May 24. Please add yours by visiting https://ascensionnyc.org/tributes, or via email to [email protected]!

05/05/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Liz Maxwell on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 3, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/05/sermon-easter-5-2026/

04/30/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Nancy Wright on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 26, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/04/sermon-easter-4-2026/

Dr. Wright serves as Pastor for Creation Care for the New England Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, helping to “green congregations” in their ministry and worship. She served as pastor for Ascension Lutheran Church, Burlington, VT, from 2006 to 2022 and worked with her congregation and ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, to create the Congregational Watershed Discipleship Manual. She has worked nationally and internationally in sustainable development and is coauthor of Ecological Healing: A Christian Vision (Orbis, 1993). She is a certified Forest Therapy Guide.

04/21/2026

Listen to the sermon preached by Father Ed on the Third Sunday of Easter, April 19, 2026.
https://ascensionnyc.org/2026/04/sermon-easter-3-2026/

The image shown here is of a carved ivory plaque showing scenes of Christ on the road to and at table in Emmaus. It dates from ca. 850-900 CE — the Carolingian dynasty — and is in the collection of the Met’s Cloister Museum in upper Manhattan.