Hello, welcome to Form Now. My name is Dr. Ben Acres, and my guest today is Dr. James Prothro, and we're in part two of a five-part series going through the glorious mysteries of the rosary. Last time we talked about the resurrection with Dr. Michael Barber. Today we're talking about the mystery of the ascension. And what we've been doing with these, going through these different passages that we meditate on our rosary, but we've

been going to scripture. We're trying to mind the depths of scripture so that we can pray more

fruitfully these mysteries. And Pope St. John Paul II said that the rosary is a compendium of the gospel.

And so that we can actually, we're actually praying the gospel. And so that's what I've really

enjoyed about this series, is having conversations with the professors at the graduate school of theology

to help me pray more deeply these mysteries. So where do we want to go in Scripture with the

ascension? Sure. So the best place, the fullest account that you get of the ascension

of Jesus in Scripture, really

is in the first chapter of the book of Acts. You get a little bit of it at the end of Luke's

gospel, but it's just kind of a short end of the book preview before Luke starts his second

book, which is Acts. And this is where we get the fullest account here in Acts chapter

1, especially verses 6 through 11.

So should we read these out?

Yeah, that's great.

Yeah, let's do it.

So we're in Acts chapter 1.

And where do you want to start?

Let's start with verse 6.

So he's been with his disciples after the resurrection for 40 days, and he's been talking

with them, and now they're going to ask him a question.

He's going to correct them, and then he's going to ascend, and they're going to be sort

left with this.

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