Sunday, June 5

Scripture Lesson for this week                Holy Fathers First Ecumenical Council– Tone 6             

Epistle: Acts 20:16-18, 28-36                                        Gospel: John 17: 1-13

 

Scripture Lesson for next week                                        Holy Pentecost – Tone 7            

Epistle: Acts 2:1-11                                           Gospel: John 7:37-52, 8:12

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  

·         Memorial/Coffee Hour: Jim & Robin Waltenberger will be having a memorial service in memory of Jim's father, Donald on his 40 days of Falling Asleep in the Lord. They are also sponsoring coffee hour. Memory Eternal!

·         Monthly Lecture: Today after a short coffee hour we will have our monthly lecture over "What does God want?"

·         No Vespers: There will be no vespers next Saturday, June 11. Vespers will return the following Saturday.

 

SUNDAY, May 29^th, 2011

Sofi Kimevski: Memory of father-in-law Vangil Kimevski.

Mary Perch: Memory of father Vangil Kimevski.

Pascha Donations

Angelo & Mary Nicoloff

SUNDAY, May 29^th, 2011

Candles                                                $                47.00

Collection Tray                                                      75.00

Weekly Envelopes                                            1,405.00

Pascha                                                                    25.00

Donations                                                               35.00

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                                         TOTAL      $           1,587.00

The story of the Ascension of our Lord, celebrated as one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church, is found in the book of the Acts of the Apostles 1:3-11. It is also mentioned in the Gospels of Mark (16:19) and Luke (24:50-53). The moment of the Ascension is told in one sentence: "He was lifted up before their eyes in a cloud which took Him from their sight" (Acts 1:9). Christ made His last appearance on earth, forty days after His Resurrection from the dead. The Acts of the Apostles states that the disciples were in Jerusalem. Jesus appeared before them and commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the "Promise of the Father". He stated, "You shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now" (Acts 1:5).

After Jesus gave these instructions, He led the disciples to the Mount of Olives. Here, He commissioned them to be His witnesses "in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1:8). It is also at this time that the disciples were directed by Christ to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). Jesus also told them that He would be with them always, "even to the end of the world" (Matthew 28:20). As the disciples watched, Jesus lifted up His hands, blessed them, and then was taken up out of their sight (Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9). Two angels appeared to them and asked them why they were gazing into heaven. Then one of the angels said, "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen Him going into heaven" (Acts 1:11).