Ascension of the Lord
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Come and Bring Light
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Today is Ascension Sunday. Catherine of Siena was instrumental in peacemaking during the Medieval Age. Living a life of prayer, in 1378, her secretary wrote down her words in a manuscript titled Dialogue. She wrote, “When my only-begotten Son returned to me forty days after his resurrection … he left your company and ascended to heaven… On the day of his ascension the disciples were as good as dead, because their hearts had been lifted up to heaven along with my Son, who is Wisdom. So the angel said to them: ‘Do not stay here, for he is seated at the Father’s right hand.’ When he had been raised on high and returned to me, his Father, I sent the Teacher, the Holy Spirit… So though my Son’s presence was no longer with you, his teaching – the way of which he made for you this lovely and glorious bridge – remained… the solid stones grounded in that teaching. First he acted, and from his actions he built the way. He taught you more by example than with words, always doing first what he talked about.”1 May we worship this day as those who follow the Way and walk the path of the disciple. 1 Siena, Catherine of. “Dialogue (1378).” In In Her Words: Women’s Writings in the History of Christian Thought. Edited by Amy Oden. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.
Prayer for peace
*Hymn: “Come and Bring Light”
Come and Bring Light
Disciples’ Generous Response
Scripture Doctrine and Covenants 165:2a
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Jesus Loves Me
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*Hymn: “The Ascension” - Phil Wickham
The Ascension
Closing Prayer
Sending Forth
ALL: God, where will your spirit lead today? Help me become fully awake and ready to respond. Grant me courage to risk something new and become a blessing of your love and peace.
Amen.
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