SUNDAY MAY 16, 2021 FIRST READING "While the Apostles looked at him, he rose up" A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (1, 1-11)

SUNDAY MAY 16, 2021 

FIRST READING 

"While the Apostles looked at him, he rose up" 

A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (1, 1-11) 

Dear Theophilus, in my first book I spoke of everything that Jesus did and taught from the moment he began, until the day he was taken up into heaven, after having, by the Holy Spirit, given his instructions to the Apostles he had chosen. It was to them that he presented himself alive after his Passion; he gave them many proofs of this, since for forty days he appeared to them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God.

During a meal which he ate with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the fulfillment of the Father's promise. He declared: “You have heard this promise from my mouth: while John baptized with water, you, it is in the Holy Spirit that you will be baptized in a few days. Thus gathered, the Apostles questioned him: "Lord, is now the time for you to reestablish the kingdom for Israel? Jesus answered them: "It is not for you to know the times and the moments which the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you're going to receive strength when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; then you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. "

After these words, while the Apostles were looking at him, he arose, and a cloud came to hide him from their eyes. And as they were still staring at the sky where Jesus was going, behold, before them stood two men in white clothes, who said to them: "Galileans, why are you standing there looking up to the sky?" This Jesus who was taken up into heaven from you will come the same way you saw him go up to heaven. " 

The Word of the Lord.

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