Did you have any experience of goodbye from a

friend who promised to go back after few years?

Did you hold onto that promise? What was the
experience? As a group, write a beautiful piece
of goodbye to a friend (one paragraph).
1. Fear, Anxiety and uncertainties (the
experience of Apostles)
2. ye etverything is pursued within “Faith.”
• The feast of the Ascension commemorates the
risen Jesus’ departure from earth and his
exaltation to his heavenly Father
• Pentecost Sunday celebrates the descent of
the Holy Spirit on the apostles and their
associates and the beginning of the Christian
mission to the ends of the earth.
• The reading from Acts 1 describes how the
inner circle of Jesus’ followers made up of the
Twelve Apostles was reconstituted after the
defection and death of Judas.
• The apostles determined that they should be
12 again, nominated two likely candidates and
chose Matthias by lot. The use of lots suggests
that the Holy Spirit really made the choice.
The Twelve Apostles once more represented
the 12 tribes of Israel and were ready to
receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
• It must also be a community of mission. As the
Father sent his Son, Jesus, to humankind, so
Jesus sends his followers into the world to
share what they believe and to make possible
a new way of relating to God and to one
another.
• Love is basic to the church’s life. “God is love.”
That elusive word love means going out to
others, wishing and working for their good
and happiness and staying with them in their
times of distress and unhappiness.
• Having been loved by God, we can remain, or
abide, in love. Think of love as the air we
breathe. It is all around us, giving us life and
sustaining us. Christian life is abiding in God’s
love. The Johannine text goes on to say that
“whoever remains in love remains in God and
God in him.”
• Not only do we abide in God but God abides
in us, especially when we love one another. So
powerful is love that in love God is present to
us and we are present to God.