as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, 'Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been take up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.'"

--Acts of the Apostles 1:9b-11; excerpt from Reading I for The Ascension of the Lord, At the Mass During the Day, May 21, 2020.

--Image: "The Ascension," by Benjamin West (1738-1820).