Ascension Sunday: Video, Homilies, Images and Multimedia Slides

The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of Ascension Sunday (Year C). In this Sunday’s gospel, Jesus leads his disciples out as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising God.

READINGS

FIRST READING: Acts 1:1-11
PSALM: Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9
SECOND READING: Eph 1:17-23
GOSPEL: Lk 24:46-53

VIDEO

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hRH5MA8eQ

The last thing Jesus came to do was start another religion. He came to show us what life in the Kingdom of God looks like. Through the cross, Jesus offers us this same kind of life – a life lived in relationship with God. This powerful video illustrates the life changing invitation that God has made to us. Made by Dan Stevers.

HOMILIES

• Did Christ Leave Us or Stay with Us? [www.bible.claret.org]
  If we emphasize that Christ has left us we will perceive him as outside of the world, as absent, and our prayer will be an effort to bring him back… If, on the other hand, we see in the Ascension that the humanity which Christ had assumed had returned to the Father, we also see Christ as freed from his physical body and more able to be present in all areas and aspects of the Church through his Spirit. We can see it as opening up to the age of the Spirit when Jesus is universally present. Read more…
• May They Become Perfectly One [dailyscripture.net]
  The unity of Jesus and his Father is a unity of mind and heart, mutal love and trust, honor and respect. Because Jesus loved us first and united us in baptism we are called to live in a unity of love. Jesus’ prayer on the eve of his sacrifice shows the great love and trust he has in his beloved disciples. Read more…
• 7th Sunday of Easter [www.catholicmatters.com]
  Christ promised his Apostles, the night before his death, that when he returned to the Father, the Holy Spirit would be sent to them. He would teach them all things and recall to their minds all that Christ had taught them. In other words, the Church, through the Apostles, was promised the direct assistance of the Holy Spirit in preserving and interpreting what we call “the deposit of faith” or the sum total of the divine revelation given to us for our sanctification. Read more…

SLIDE PRESENTATION

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/happyfaith/ear-c-ascension-sunday-of-easter-john-31421.

GOSPEL TOON

Source: http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/1750407

IMAGES

To view and download their full size versions, please click on the images or the names of the artists/sources.

CLIPART