Ascension: Seventh Sunday of Easter
Happy final Sunday in Eastertide!
Look: Outreach of the New Covenant, Shin Young-Hun - Source
Listen: Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 42. "Hallelujah", Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - YouTube | Spotify
Read: Acts 1:15-26; Psalm 47; 1 John 5:6-15; John 17:11-19
Daily readings for the seventh week of Eastertide
Sunday (5/16) Psalm 66-67; Psalm 19, 46; Ezekiel 3:16-27; Ephesians 2:1-10; Matthew 10:24-33, 40-42
Monday (5/17) Psalm 89; Ezekiel 4:1-17; Hebrews 6:1-12; Luke 9:51-62
Tuesday (5/18) Psalm 97, 99; Psalm 94; Ezekiel 7:10-15, 23b-27; Hebrews 6:13-20; Luke 10:1-17
Wednesday (5/19) Psalm 101, 109; Psalm 119:121-144; Ezekiel 11:14-25; Hebrews 7:1-17; Luke 10:17-24
Thursday (5/20) Psalm 105; Ezekiel 18:1-4, 19-32; Hebrews 7:18-28; Luke 10:25-37
Friday (5/21) Psalm 102; Psalm 107:1-32; Ezekiel 34:17-31; Hebrews 8:1-13; Luke 10:38-42
Saturday (5/22) Psalm 107:33-43, 108:1-13; Psalm 33; Ezekiel 43:1-12; Hebrews 9:1-14; Luke 11:14-23
Pray: Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Seventh Sunday in Easter
O God, the King of glory, you have exalted your only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph to your kingdom in heaven: Do not leave us comfortless, but send us your Holy Spirit to strengthen us, and exalt us to that place where our Savior Christ has gone before; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.
Do: I confess. My intentions were good to complete a photo-a-day challenge last week, but the week got away from me! Thank you, everyone, who participated in this year’s Practice Resurrection photo stories!
So, today let’s read an Ascension sonnet by Malcolm Guite.
We saw his light break through the cloud of glory
Whilst we were rooted still in time and place
As earth became a part of Heaven’s story
And heaven opened to his human face.
We saw him go and yet we were not parted
He took us with him to the heart of things
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and Heaven-centred now, and sings,
Sings in the strength that rises out of weakness,
Sings through the clouds that veil him from our sight,
Whilst we our selves become his clouds of witness
And sing the waning darkness into light,
His light in us, and ours in him concealed,
Which all creation waits to see revealed .
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