Welcome to Catonsville Presbyterian Church

We gather to worship God, share fellowship and challenge each other to grow in experiences of faith.  We are a teaching and learning community grounded in the word of God.

As disciples of Christ, we glorify God by sharing the good news of God's grace and affirming the inherent worth of each person as a child of God.  We endeavor to discern and apply Christ's teaching by working for justice and peace in the local and world community.

Catonsville Presbyterian is a church whose faith is in dialogue with our world.
 

“….Behold the highest, parting hence away,
Lightens the dark clouds, which he treads upon,
Nor doth he by ascending, show alone,
But first he, and he first enters the way.
O strong Ram, which hast battered heaven for me,
Mild Lamb, which with thy blood, hast marked the
path;
Bright Torch, which shin’st, that I the way may see…..”  
  - from Ascension, by John Donne

Texts: Psalm 93, Acts 1: 1-14

Sermon: This Ain’t No Air Show
Preacher: Rev. Dr. Terry Schoener

“Going and Coming”
Just as there are forty days leading up to Easter called Lent, following Easter there are forty days during which the resurrected Christ made one appearance after another. Not just to disciples in the upper room but on the road, and to hundreds of people at one time. But at the end of forty days his physical appearances to individuals and groups come to an abrupt end with what is called “the ascension.” It was a puzzlement to them, and it is a puzzlement to us. Who is going to guide us? He had told them this would happen, that he would return to the God-head thereby releasing a different presence of the same God called the “Holy Spirit.”

This Sunday we will meet at the Lord’s Table for Ascension Sunday, the conclusion of Eastertide and Jesus’ going back to God. A week from Sunday, then, will be fifty days after Easter called Pentecost Sunday marking God’s Holy Spirit coming to be immediately available to everyone.

See you in worship,

Terry Schoener