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2 of 2 ~ 3.— Saturday after the Ascension The Means employed 2. They were always in the Temple. Not only constant at its services, but standing there for long hours in silent supplication. They knew that God was specially present there, and that His ears were specially open to their petitions. So we must be often before the Blessed Sacrament, visiting from time to time the temple where Jesus Himself is truly present. This is the way to obtain graces from Him. This is the way to win His Sacred Heart. 3. They were constantly praising and blessing God. Thus even before the Holy Spirit descended, they had begun to practise as far as they could the occupation of the saints and angels in heaven. They knew that the best form of prayer is an expression of gratitude and love. Yet how much cause they had for natural anxiety! What a battle, and apparently what a hopeless battle, before them! Their overflowing love made them full of hope and joy. God will always help those who are continually praising and blessing Him. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 31st ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ ~ 3.— Saturday after the Ascension The Means employed How did the disciples spend the time of their retreat? We are not left in ignorance here. 1. They were persevering in prayer. If there was one lesson which their Master had taught them again and again, it was the necessity of earnest, persevering, patient prayer. How He had enforced it by command, by parable, by His own example! They had learned the lesson, and now their instinct was to make prayer the chief preparation for the coming of the power from on high. It is prayer that obtains power for us— power over ourselves— power to convert others— wisdom and prudence and all we need. (continued)

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Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 31st ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ ~ 3.— Saturday after the Ascension The Means employed How did the disciples spend the time of their retreat? We are not left in ignorance here. 1. They were persevering in prayer. If there was one lesson which their Master had taught them again and again, it was the necessity of earnest, persevering, patient prayer. How He had enforced it by command, by parable, by His own example! They had learned the lesson, and now their instinct was to make prayer the chief preparation for the coming of the power from on high. It is prayer that obtains power for us— power over ourselves— power to convert others— wisdom and prudence and all we need. (continued)

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 31st ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ ~ 3.— Saturday after the Ascension The Means employed How did the disciples spend the time of their retreat? We are not left in ignorance here. 1. They were persevering in prayer. If there was one lesson which their Master had taught them again and again, it was the necessity of earnest, persevering, patient prayer. How He had enforced it by command, by parable, by His own example! They had learned the lesson, and now their instinct was to make prayer the chief preparation for the coming of the power from on high. It is prayer that obtains power for us— power over ourselves— power to convert others— wisdom and prudence and all we need. (continued)

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~ 2.— Friday after the Ascension The Preparation for Pentecost 2. The disciples, we are told, were all of one mind. There was no jealousy now, no strife, no disagreement. Jesus had left His peace with them. They had learned the lesson of charity and submission; their constant desire was to yield to others, to minister to others. They had now all one heart and one soul, because one Lord, one faith, one end in life, one object of their ambition, to serve others for love of Him. This perfect harmony is the most certain means of drawing down the Holy Spirit. Do I seek to cultivate it among those with whom my lot is cast? 3. Joined to the disciples in their retreat were Our Lady and the holy women. The presence of Mary sanctified them. She was now their Mother. Christ Himself had entrusted them to her. She had become beneath the cross the Mother of the infant Church; they consulted her, learned from her some of the secrets of divine love that filled her soul, honored her with a reverence and a devotion which corresponded to their love for Jesus. O Mary, be thou with me, now and always, as my adviser, my hope, my Lady, and my Queen ! ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 30th ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ ~ 2.— Friday after the Ascension The Preparation for Pentecost 1. When the disciples returned to Jerusalem, they went back to the Cenacle, or upper room, where Our Lord had eaten the Pasch with them, and had instituted the Blessed Eucharist. There they spent the next eight days, according to their Master's instructions, in a retreat preparatory to Pentecost. Learn from this the importance of a quiet time alone with God as a condition of receiving from Him signal graces. (continued)

2 of 2 ~ 1.— Ascension Day The Return of the Apostles to Jerusalem 2. How happy they were ! their hearts brimful of joy and delight. Yet they had just lost Him Who would, they had hoped, reign as earthly King of Israel. They knew better now. They had learned the true meaning of His promises, and they were content, more than content, to wait for the day in the far future, when He should make His enemies His footstool, and reign over the whole earth, King of kings, Lord of lords. Am I content to wait for that joyful day, and to live in hope ? 3. But the chief source of their happiness was the knowledge that He Whom they loved better than life itself had returned to the bosom of His Eternal Father. Theirs was an unselfish joy in deed ! What mattered it if they had to suffer persecution and trouble, if Jesus had entered on the reward earned by His Passion and death ? This should be the joy that I must aim at. I must rejoice at the victory of Jesus Christ, and triumph in His glory. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 29th ~ 1.— Ascension Day The Return of the Apostles to Jerusalem 1. When the apostles had received from the angels the message respecting the future return of Jesus, slowly and in silence they left the spot where they had been gazing in ecstasy after their King and Lord: their thoughts in heaven, their hearts in heaven, where they knew that their Master was rejoicing at the right hand of God. They would fain have remained still looking up to the place whither He had gone before them. But they had learned the lesson of obedience, and without hesitation or delay they obeyed the angels' word. (continued)

2 of 2 40.— The Return to Jerusalem 1. The apostles remain long gazing into heaven. At length they are roused from their trance by two angels, who ask them why they stand looking up into heaven, and tell them that one day Jesus will so come again as they have seen Him go into heaven. The angels speak almost as if itwould be but a few months or years before He would return; so the apostles themselves and the saints of God seem to anticipate His speedy coming. The happy day will not be long delayed, and we know not how near it may be. If our hearts are in heaven we shall be watching and waiting to welcome Jesus when He returns in His glory. 2. Slowly,and like men awaking out of a dream, but with the sweet remembrance still living in their hearts, they return to Jerusalem with greal joy. How could they rejoice when their Master had departed? They did not think of themselves, but of Him. They rejoiced in His exaltation and glory. Their joy was the best and truest and brightest joy— the unselfish joy in the joy of their Lord and Master. 3. When they returned to Jerusalem they were always in the Temple, praising and blessing God. This is what Our Lord loves— that we should show our joy by thanking Him in that place where He is specially present. In all times of joy, what can I do better than go and kneel before the altar, to thank Him for all His love and goodness to me? ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893) On this 40th day, we end our meditations from Easter to the Ascension, and begin, below, meditations from the Ascension until the Octave of Corpus Christi.

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 29th ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ 40.— The Return to Jerusalem Read St. Luke xxiv. 52, 53 And they adoring went back into Jerusalem with great joy. And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. Acts i. 10-12 And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. (continued)

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2 of 2 39.— The Ascension 1. As the apostles gaze upon their Lord in His Divine Beauty, He slowly rises through the air, and the glorious vision fades away from their sight, until at length an intervening cloud hides Him entirely from them. They still stand there gazing upwards. Their hearts, their affections, their hopes, their interests, nay, their very lives, have gone with Him to heaven. Henceforward they are risen with Christ into heaven; and so they must seek those things that are above. I did not see Christ ascend, but I know it by faith. Has His Ascension the same influence on my life? Are my thoughts and hopes fixed on heavenly things? 2. Why had Christ left them? Not for His own sake, but for theirs. He might have remained with them if it had been for their advantage; but then they would not have been able to live a life of faith, or to prove their fidelity by their outward remembrance of Him whom they saw no longer. It would be no benefit to us if Christ were still visibly present among us. It would deprive us of the merit of loving Him that is invisible, and believing in Him though we see Him not. 3. Besides, Christ in His wondrous love has not left us. He is present in every church under the Eucharistic species. There we can talk to Him, pray to Him, praise Him, listen to His voice speaking to our souls— everything save see Him with our eyes. One day we shall see Him, and then indeed our joy will be full. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

2 of 2 39.— The Ascension 1. As the apostles gaze upon their Lord in His Divine Beauty, He slowly rises through the air, and the glorious vision fades away from their sight, until at length an intervening cloud hides Him entirely from them. They still stand there gazing upwards. Their hearts, their affections, their hopes, their interests, nay, their very lives, have gone with Him to heaven. Henceforward they are risen with Christ into heaven; and so they must seek those things that are above. I did not see Christ ascend, but I know it by faith. Has His Ascension the same influence on my life? Are my thoughts and hopes fixed on heavenly things? 2. Why had Christ left them? Not for His own sake, but for theirs. He might have remained with them if it had been for their advantage; but then they would not have been able to live a life of faith, or to prove their fidelity by their outward remembrance of Him whom they saw no longer. It would be no benefit to us if Christ were still visibly present among us. It would deprive us of the merit of loving Him that is invisible, and believing in Him though we see Him not. 3. Besides, Christ in His wondrous love has not left us. He is present in every church under the Eucharistic species. There we can talk to Him, pray to Him, praise Him, listen to His voice speaking to our souls— everything save see Him with our eyes. One day we shall see Him, and then indeed our joy will be full. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)

Month of the Blessed Virgin Mary ~ May 28th ✧❁❁✧✿✿✧❁❁✧ 39.— The Ascension Read St. Luke xxiv. 51 And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from them, and was carried up to heaven. Acts i. 9 And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. (continued)

2 of 2 38.— The Final Visit 1. Our Lord's last appearance to His apostles was at Jerusalem. He seems to have talked long with them on this occasion, and to have opened their minds to a right understanding of the Scriptures, and to have explained to them their future mission. Yet even to the last their notions were confused and hazy, and they still clung to the ideas of a temporal kingdom, and asked, "Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" So slow are men to be rid of worldly hopes and aspirations, or to recognize that Christ's kingdom is not of this world. 2. After Our Lord's discourse He led them out as far as Bethany, still conversing with them, and instructing them in the work they were to do. How they hang one very word with a sort of presentiment that He is going to leave them! At length they reach the Garden of Gethsemani and ascend the Hill of Olivet. All at once He is transfigured before their eyes, and a light far brighter than the sun surrounds them; and Jesus in the midst raises His hand to bless them, as they remain in an ecstasy of joy and fear, and wonder and delight. 3. At the same time they see around them a countless number of angels come to welcome their king and their God, and hear the music of heaven and angelic strains; while in the midst their Lord, now radiant with Divine beauty and glory and majesty, is raised above the ground. The vision of Him makes them forget all else, and ravishes their souls as He pronounces the solemn words of benediction. That one moment was enough to compensate them for all they had suffered. How much more will the first moment of heaven make all earthly afflictions seem as nothing. ~ Rev. Richard F. Clarke, S.J., The Devout Year (1893)