cblog CHRISTIAN VALUES ARE REJECTED ESPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA cblog (undated, July 2011 ) Sacred Heart San Diego (?) Day 2" First reading..price we pay for being christian..we will be ridiculed..values of christ not accepted by all..yet paul is faithful as an apostle..we r caled to be faithful to our baptism..regardless of how treated..in mod world..christian values ridiculed..st rejected esp in california..like disciples..still trying to figure. Out message of Jesus..not always clear what gospel means..just when think figured out ..new questions..church always ongoing refl on mesage of gosp..come to more love and apprec of that message..meanwhile..grief ..but Jesus assures us t will become joy ..maybe persecutd or riduculed..always hope.. in fulfillment in ressurection ..in promise of eternal life..assured .."..
THEY DID NOT USE THIS READING:
See instead Acts 18.1-8, john 16.26-20 (because they moved the ascension readingts to Sunday)
Acts 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with the them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him,“Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem throughout Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”
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May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way. The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them,“All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
