May 17 - Sunday of the 7th Week of Easter, Year A
(Acts 1:12-14; Ps.27:1,4,7-8,13; 1Pt.4:13-16; Jn.17:1-11a) "One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life." Obedient to the instructions of the Lord, the apostles returned to Jerusalem, where they gathered together in "the upper room" and "devoted themselves with one accord to prayer," waiting for the promised gift of the Spirit of God. With David they long to "gaze on the loveliness of the Lord and contemplate His temple," and so, with him they sing, "Of you my heart speaks, you my glance seeks." The Pentecost is soon to come; the Spirit…
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