Mother Cass has served Ascension as an assisting priest since July of 2010. She received her M.DIV from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and was ordained to the Priesthood in the Diocese of Colorado on Dec. 17, 2005. She began her ordained ministry as a Deacon and Curate at St. Matthew’s in Parker where she served for several years. Her countless opportunities, many of them long-term, serving as a Supply Priest throughout the Diocese have given her an appreciation for the rich diversity among Episcopal Churches and worshippers. Cass was the Priest-in-Charge at All Saints in Northwest Denver for 1 ½ years, pastoring the small congregation through the painfully difficult decision to close the parish.

Mother Cass is a member of the Executive Committee for the High Plains Region of the Diocese. She formerly served as a chaplain at The Gathering Place, a women’s day shelter, and was an ECW chaplain. She attended St Martin-in-the Fields, Aurora, for 25 years where she and her husband raised their family and were active in a wide variety of lay ministries. Cass attributes this gift of experiencing so many different ways of serving God as foundational to her call to ordained ministry. She says, “Many people mistake the myriad program choices of large churches as opportunities for ministry, while in my experience it is the smaller, often struggling, church which provides a broader range of actual hands-on ministry for those desiring to serve within the Church.”

Mother Cass is a bi-vocational priest (meaning, she is earning a living in non-parish work), working as a Microbiologist at The Children’s Hospital. Her husband, Larry is a Test Engineer in the Global Manufacturing division of EchoStar. They have two married children who live in the Metro area. If you wish to reach Mother Cass please call the parish administrator or leave a message on the church voicemail. She will do her best to respond as promptly as possible.