I find this Sunday to be a strange place to be in our liturgical year. We’re still in Eastertide, celebrating the resurrection of our Lord. But, three days ago, on Thursday, we remembered his Ascension into heaven. And now that he’s ascended, there’s still a little bit more time before next Sunday, when we commemorate the gift of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. In other words, here on the seventh Sunday of Easter, we find ourselves in a bit of an in between place, especially if we put ourselves in the shoes of those early followers of Jesus who were gathering in our reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
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