SECOND
GLORIOUS MYSTERY: The
Ascension.
Jesus ascends into Heaven
forty days after His Resurrection. And as they are speaking
these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them,
and saith to them, "Peace to you"; being
amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking
themselves to see a spirit. And he said to them,
"Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings
come up in your hearts? see my hands and my feet, that I
am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh
and bones, as ye see me having." And having said
this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet. ...
"And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon
you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye
be clothed with power from on high." And he led them
forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his
hands he did bless them, and it came to pass, in his
blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up
to the heaven. (Luk 24,36-51)
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