LECTORS – Ascension

Date: May 17, 2023Author: Admin 0 Comments

LECTORS
LECTOR BULLETS

Ascension Year A

LECTOR TIPS

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First Reading Lector Tips
Second Reading Lector tips

Lisa Bellecci – St. Romain

Lector 1 for Ascension Sunday

The wonderful description of the Ascension, and Jesus' promises. Vary your voice as the reading moves from narrator, Jesus, apostles, and angels!

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ARCHIVE VIDEO – 2019

Lisa Bellecci – St. Romain

Lector 2 Ascension Sunday

This section of the Letter to the Ephesians calls for your attention to pacing of a very long sentence, filled with hope, joy, and a crescendo of glory to Ch...

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ARCHIVE VIDEO – 2020

USCCB Podcast

Ascension of the Lord

Hear the correct pronunciation of challenging words.

READINGS

USCCB Daily Readings · Daily Mass Reading Podcast For May 21, 2023 Ascension

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Greg Warnusz

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Ascension Year A

LECTOR TIPS

Acts 1:1-11

MESSAGE FOR ASSEMBLY: Why are you standing there looking? Why are you standing there looking? The angel speaks to the wistful disciples, but could as easily be speaking to us with our minds wrapped up in mere dreams or appearances. Here is the stranger assuring us again of simple truths. Yes, Jesus will return in the same way. My words are assuring today.

SECOND READING

Ephesians 1:17-23

MESSAGE FOR ASSEMBLY: The apostle recites the litany of names from the Who’s Who of the Universe. But Christ, in whom we put our trust and base our life as church, is above all other names, all other authorities, all other claims to our worship and hope, in this age and in the one to come. I will challenge myself: To upstage the first reading.