Seventh Sunday of Easter
Memorial Day Weekend
When the apostles had come together, they asked Jesus, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But 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.” When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They 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.”
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.
Acts 1:6-14c
Ascension
with the Twelve Apostles
DOSSI,
Dosso
1520
Private
Collection
Milan
Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus_in_Christian_art#/media/File:Dosso_Dossi_022.jpg
Heaven is under our feet
as well as over our heads.
~
Henry David Thoreau
The world is round and the place
which may seem like the end
may also be the beginning.
~
Ivy Baker Priest
Dottie
and Jack Alexander and I had lunch at Lariat Lodge.
They
were a tremendous help in last minute preparations for Vicki’s Celebration of
Life.
Celebrating the Life of Vicki Lynn Hall
May
21, 2017
Rev.
Kimra Perkins wore her butterfly stole for the service.
Charles
Rose, Kimra Perkins, Carolyn Alexander, Amy Larson, Chance Rose, Chaz Rose
Charles
Rose, Carolyn Alexander, Chance Rose, Chaz Rose
Jeanne
Gibbard put the final touches on the wildflower seed packets Pastor Kimra
prepared
for the guests.
A
haiku tribute from SuSu Wolff, along with a Mt. Evans angel
from
Dr. Marsha and Bill Manning.
Anna
Marie Nelson and Joan Mickelson treated me to lunch on Thursday and briefed me
about
taking pictures next weekend for Sculpture Evergreen.
The
new sculptures will be installed then.
Evergreen
Rotary members decorated the tree for Memorial Day weekend.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every
man which cannot be filled by any created thing,
but only by God …
~
Blaise Pascal
Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
”I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.”
John 17:1-11
Agnus Day, by
James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission
of www.agnusday.org
(Ascension of the Lord)
Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47:1-9 or Psalm 93:1-5
Ephesians 1:15-23
Luke 24:44-53
(7th Sunday of Easter)
Acts 1:6-14
Ps 68:1-10, 32-35
1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11
John 17:1-11