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SUMMARY:Holy Communion and Junior Church
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DESCRIPTION:Holy Communion for Ascension Day: celebrant the Revd Tola Bade
 jo\,\n\nFirst reading: Acts 1. 1-11\nGospel: Luke 24. 44–53\n\nAscension
  Day marks a pivotal point both in the very early history of the church an
 d in the church's year. The day's readings look back upon the earthly mini
 stry which Christ has now concluded\, but also look forward to the gift of
  the Holy Spirit\, the future ministry of the Apostles\, and the Second Co
 ming. Whereas many famous representations of the scene depict Jesus rising
  vertically into a cloud\, sometimes in quite a comical way\, some of the 
 earliest are both more naturalistic and more meaningful\, showing Jesus st
 epping from a mountain top into heaven\; earth and heaven are thus made cl
 early distinct\, but not necessarily distant from each other. The image ab
 ove is the upper half of a fresco by Giotto showing Christ's reception by 
 angels\; the lower half (in the complete picture attached below) shows the
  scene from an earthly perspective\, with the apostles looking upwards and
  the angels mentioned in Acts 1.  10-11.     \n\nAscension Day itself fall
 s exactly forty days after Easter\, and therefore on a Thursday\, but it i
 s traditional to transfer the feast to the Sunday immediately following\, 
 as we are doing today.
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LOCATION:Kidbrooke\, St Nicholas
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