Second Reading: He Ascended to Give Us Gifts God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. (6) God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.įor the LORD, the Most High, the awesome, Will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.' This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven Why are you standing there looking at the sky? Suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them.

While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, He was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. When he had said this, as they were looking on, That the Father has established by his own authority.īut you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,Īnd you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, He answered them, 'It is not for you to know the times or seasons 'Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?' When they had gathered together they asked him, He enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,īut to wait for 'the promise of the Fatherīut in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' I dealt with all that Jesus did and taughtĪfter giving instructions through the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit will give them the strength to bear witness to Christ the Lord to the whole world. R/ Amen.įirst Reading: Why Are You Looking into the Sky?Īt his ascension, Jesus entrusts his work to the apostles. That he stays with us until the end of timeĪnd to proclaim his Good News to all the world. R/ Christ, have mercy.īut forgive us and let us live in your presence.īut your Son Jesus has made you known to us. Jesus Christ, in heaven you prepare a placeĬhrist, have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are raised to the Father’s glory, Our witnessing to the living Lord is poor. Jesus will work with you through the Spirit he gives you and he will confirm what you say and do. Proclaim with your lives that he is alive. But in the meantime we have to bring him to our world and to the people of our day. For a part of us is now very close to God: our brother Jesus, who is one of us, is the first to rise from the dead and the first to live fully in God’s glory and joy. Let us listen to him speaking in this Eucharist and give glory to him and to the Father.Īscension Day. We, the Church, have to continue the work he began and to bear witness that he is our living Lord. He is now the Lord of all, the Lord of glory, and yet still one of us and very near, more intimate to ourselves than we are, the heart of our own heart, through his Spirit alive in us.

He no longer belongs to a small group but to everyone on earth who wants to accept him.

Does that mean that Jesus has left us, is gone? It is true we can no longer touch and see him as could the apostles and disciples. May the Lord send you his Spirit of unityĪnd be always with you. “Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit Naturally, as it narrates the Ascension event itself, the First Reading is used every year. Those who want still to use the old readings may do so these are found in both the old and the new editions of the Lectionary. We follow the B cycle of readings as now given for optional use in the new edition of 1981 of the Lectionary. In the Philippines, as in many other countries, the Solemnity of the Ascension replaces the Seventh Sunday of Easter.Ģ.

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