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Today, Catholic Christians celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord into heaven. And in the Gospel of Mark we have today, we read:
“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.’ So, then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs” (Mark 16: 15-20).
Catholic Christians focus on preaching the word of God as a missionary mandate, believing in the Trinity, and being baptized. We don’t do snake handling or drink poison to prove the Holy Spirit is within us, though there are some branches of Protestant Christianity that have done that in the past and continue to do it even today.
The photo above shows Ángel Romeo Carranza García (in the tuxedo) with his family on his baptism day at Our Lady of Candelaria Church in Curarén.
