The Ascension of the Lord
Tomorrow Sunday we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord. Pope Benedict XVI said the Ascension doesn't mean that Christ left the world forty days after His Resurrection. Instead, "We go to heaven to the extent that we go to Jesus Christ and enter into him." For heaven itself is a person: "Jesus himself is what we call heaven."
Fro the Gospel Gospel according to Matthew 28:16-20:
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshipped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, 'All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.'
Here's the reflection of the day from the Magnificat. It's a poem titled, "I Will Come Again" by Richard Hobbs. The speaker in the …
Nice reflection. Thank you. In effect we can practice for going to Heaven here by going to Him in the now.