Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
It is instructive that Luke can present the same event in two different ways. In one place, it occurs on Easter night and is described simply as being taken up into heaven; whereas in another this final withdrawal occurs forty days later.
John Kavanaugh, SJ
As Christians, we are sent into the world as Christ was sent. We are an incarnate people. In terms of our civil societies, we are a people of inculturation. Our faith lives in and through the cultures we inhabit.
John J. Pilch
Jesus’ prayer for his disciples reflects something of a siege mentality: “us” against “them.” There was certainly good reason for this feeling in Jesus’ lifetime, and equally good reason for it when the evangelist was writing.
Of all this our Lord Jesus Christ gave ample proof in the sight of many, until at last he entered heaven in triumph, bearing with him the trophy of his victory over death.
Reginald H. Fuller
Christ’s kingship [is] exercised in two concentric circles. The inner circle embraces the church, where his kingship is known and acknowledged; the outer circle embraces the world.