Ascension Sunday
6So when they had come together,
they asked him, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to
Israel?" 7He replied, "It is not for you to know the
times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has
come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." 9When he had
said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of
their sight. 10While he was going and they were gazing
up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them.
11They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking
up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will
come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
Acts 1:6-14
Ascension
GIOTTO di
Bondone
1304-06
Fresco, 200 x 185 cm
Cappella Scrovegni
(Arena Chapel), Padua
We experience God
in three ways:
Beyond us; among us; and within us.
~ Frederick
Buechner
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of
courtesy.
~ Jacques Maritain
Dine Around
with Barbara and Paul
Gretchen,
Barbara, Paul
John, Diane,
Tom
John
Diane fixed a
delicious dessert!
Yum!
I must have a prodigious
quantity of mind;
it takes me as much as
a week,
sometimes, to make it
up.
~ Mark Twain
May 4,
2008 Seventh Sunday of Easter
Previous OPQs may be found
at:
Barbara Brown Taylor writes, “With nothing but a
promise and a prayer, those eleven disciples consented to
become the church, and nothing was ever the same again,
beginning with them. The followers became leaders, the listeners became
preachers, the converts became missionaries, the healed
became healers. They began to say things that sounded like
things Jesus would say. They began to do things that were like thing
Jesus had done. They became brave and capable and wise. It
was almost as if Jesus had not ascended but exploded, so
that all the holiness once concentrated in him flew everywhere, on
every
person.”
Agnus Day, by James
Wetzstein
