Ascension Sunday
June 1
When they hadgathered together they asked him,
“Lord, areyou at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
He answeredthem, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons
that the Fatherhas established by his own authority.
But you willreceive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,
and you will bemy witnesses in Jerusalem,
throughoutJudea and Samaria,
and to the endsof the earth.”
When he hadsaid this, as they were looking on,
he was liftedup, and a cloud took him from their sight.
While they werelooking intently at the sky as he was going,
suddenly twomen dressed in white garments stood beside them.
They said,”Men of Galilee,
why are youstanding there looking at the sky?
This Jesus whohas been taken up from you into heaven
will return inthe same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”
(Acts 1:6-11)