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Feast of the Ascension (B)
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Mark 16: 15-20
Luke 24: 44-53
Ephesians 1: 17-23
Hebrews 9: 24-28; 10
Psalm 47: 2-3, 6-9
Ezekiel 1: 3-5a, 15-22, 26-28
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Matthew 28: 16-20
Ascension (A)(1999)
("This week I read about a woman who was involved in demonstrations against her oppressive and unjust government in South America. Authorities arrested her and put her in solitary confinement. Her cell was cold and damp. Its toilet was just a bucket in the corner and its bed was merely a thin mattress on the floor. Her cell had no window and only a single light bulb...")
Acts 1: 1-11
*Signs of Contradiction
("The tall Sixth Year stood at the exit door during the Ascension Mass in a school. Throughout, she examined her fingernails, folded the hymnsheet over to an intricate design and after the Gospel took to a serious perusal of her diary. An adult delicately suggested afterwards that Ascension Day didn't mean much to her. 'Why should we celebrate his going away;' she said; 'He hasn't come here yet.'...")Out of Sight, But Not Gone
("The year was 1772, and a Baptist preacher serving a small country church was called to pastor a large, more prestigious church in London, England. As the story goes, John Fawcett delivered his farewell sermon and packed up his family’s earthly possessions, ready to go. It was the tears of his parishioners, helping them load the carts, though, that really got to John and his wife...")