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Does God care about my skinned knee?

May 26, 2022 By Genevieve Razim 1 Comment

What is your favorite day in the Church Year? Christmas? Easter? Pentecost? All Saints?
Does anyone ever answer with Ascension Day?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, Feast Days, Jesus, Philip

The Interlude before the Ascension

May 13, 2021 By Anne Warner 2 Comments

This year the Ascension just hits different (as the kids like to say). Our pandemic experience right now has parallels to how the disciples must have felt after the resurrection

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Filed Under: Easter, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ascension, coronavirus, disciple, Easter, Jesus Christ

Ascension Day Reminds the Church Who We Are

May 21, 2020 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Here, forty days after experiencing the impossible, grappling with the fact that Jesus had risen from the dead, the disciples are again standing in awe. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, cake, Feast Days, Luke

Why are you staring at the sky?

May 30, 2019 By Lauren Kuratko Leave a Comment

In the retelling of this story in Acts chapter one, after Jesus ascends, the disciples are staring up towards the heavens and two men in white robes appear. They ask the disciples:“Why do you stand looking up towards heaven?”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Ascension, children, Feast Days, parenting

God reached out a hand for Jesus; God reaches out a hand for me.

May 25, 2017 By Marcus Halley 5 Comments

When I look back at my life, what felt like random stumbling at the time now appears ordered and planned, as if someone far bigger and wiser than I is holding the reins.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Ascension, discipleship, ordination, vocation

Celebrating the Ascension

May 5, 2016 By Nurya Love Parish Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the Ascension, one of the major feasts of the church. As a parent, I’m struck by this ancient image.

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