Wait for the Gift (Ascension)

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On Thursday 30 May, 40 days after Easter, we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus.

In Acts 1:3-11, Jesus points his friends to the ways in which he will remain with them, urging them stay present to his leading moment by moment as they wait on the Holy Spirit.

“After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.  They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.  “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky?” – Acts 1:9-11

Augustine’s sermon on the ascension (well worth a read), points to the ways in which the ascension mysteriously knits together the things of earth and heaven. “Out of compassion for us he descended from heaven,” Augustine writes “and although he ascended alone, we also ascend, because we are in him by grace.”

May you be open to hear the truth which is making itself known to you today.

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Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Lectio Divina.

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All music by Pete Hatch.