Thursday, 14 May 2026 – Solemnity of the Ascension
Acts 1:1–11; Eph 1:17–23; Mt 28:16–20
H O M I L Y
Already on the morning of the third day, the day of the Resurrection, an angel, through the women who had come to the tomb, sent the disciples back to Galilee, that is to say, to their usual occupations. It was there that Jesus would meet them. In Luke’s account of the Ascension at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, the angels who appear to the Apostles give them the same message: ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?’ They are once again sent back to their everyday lives.