RELIGION NEEDS SCIENCE
SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION June 02, 2019 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. David Justin Lynch Acts 1:1-11 | Psalm 47:2-3;6-9 Ephesians 1:17-23 | Luke 24:46-53 + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. When I was a child, the Space Program of the United States Government, known as NASA, an acronym for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was quite fascinating to me. I can recall that the first time I watched television in school was the lift-off of Astronaut Alan Shepherd into a suborbital journey that blasted him to the outer edges space and then immediately back down to earth several hundred miles down range from the launch site. I have continued to follow the space program in the news media. It still fascinates me. At the same time that I watched spaceflight in my childhood, I was, of course, an enthusiastic churchgoer, much preferring my place at the altar or in the choirstall to all o