Pentecost Novena Day 3 - Sunday
Pray: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love.
V. Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created,
R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray.
O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of Your faithful, grant that by that same Holy Spirit, we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Read:
Year A
Acts 1:12-14
1 Peter 4:13-16
John 17:1-11
Year B
Acts 1:15-17, 20-26
1 John 4:11-16
John 17:11-19
Year C
Acts 7:55-60
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20
John 17:20-26
Be silent
Pray: Father, make us one in the Spirit. As You have forgiven me, may I accept Your grace to forgive immediately all who have sinned against me. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Sunday, May 17, 2015, Ascension of the Lord, Pentecost Novena - Day 3
Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:17-23 or, Ephesians 4:1-13, Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9, Mark 16:15-20
Link to Readings --> http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/051715.cfm
DONE DEAD OR DONE GOOD?
"He was lifted up before their eyes in a cloud which took Him from their sight." -Acts 1:9
When Jesus ascended into heaven, He mounted "His throne amid shouts of joy; the Lord, amid trumpet blasts" (Ps 47:6). All the angels and saints were giving Jesus a "prostrate ovation" in recognition that He, the Lord of lords and the King of kings, had accomplished the plan of salvation.
The apostles shared in this worship of the glorified and enthroned Christ, but they "had entertained doubts" (Mt 28:17). On the cross, when Jesus said: "It is finished," His disciples probably thought that He was saying His life was over rather than that God's plan was fulfilled. When Jesus ascended, no one had a new nature, no one was a child of God, no one had the Trinity dwelling in him, and no one had the power to make disciples of all nations (see Mt 28:19). Why would the ascending Jesus be acclaimed in heaven when He left so much unfinished business?
Because God the Father through Jesus sent within a few days the Holy Spirit, Jesus' ascension was right on time. In the Holy Spirit, Jesus' disciples were baptized, received a share in the divine nature (2 Pt 1:4), were dwelling in the Trinity and the Trinity in them, and were made holy, royal, priestly, chosen, and powerful to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Pentecost makes Jesus' ascension glorious rather than bewildering. Let us devote ourselves "to constant prayer" for the coming of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 1:14).
Prayer: Father, in the Spirit may I do my part in Your plan.
Promise: "It is like the strength He showed in raising Christ from the dead and seating Him at His right hand." -Eph 1:19-20
Praise: Praise the ascended Jesus, "seen by the angels; preached among the Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up into glory" (1 Tm 3:16).
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