Session 2. The power of prayer

1. Upper room

A. Acts 1:12-14 1. It was the place of Last supper and then Pentecost 2. Luke names the 11: two by two= symbol of the church See Lk. 10:1; Mk. 6:7 3. Women have a prominent place amongst apostolic leaders ( as well as the Gospel of Like). See Acts 2:17 B. Mary’s role 1. See Catechism #726; 494; 2. Mary is new eve - she is with the 12 at dawn of a new time 3. The Holy Spirit upon her at Jesus’ birth and now at the church’s birth at Pentecost. II. The replacement Acts 1:15-26 A. Peter is clearly the leader of the 120 1. The need for 12 th to fulfill Israel being restored to 12 tribes. 2. The criteria is: a. Witness to the resurrection B. Wi ...