Dear Parishioners
The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is a wonderful
Feast, full of hope for the human race.
The Mystery we celebrate today is that our human nature has been taken
into the very heart of God. Jesus gave New
Life to us through His Resurrection.
After forty days of encountering His disciples, He was “taken from their
sight” by an overshadowing cloud. This
departure opens the door to Heaven and creates the bridge between Heaven and
earth in our very humanity, now perfected in Jesus Christ.
When we open our hearts to receive this Mystery, we are given
an interior “glimpse” into reality beyond anything that the world can
offer. Now we enter into the time of awaiting
the Coming of the Spirit, Who will continue to guide us through history to the
fulfillment of all that has begun in the Life of Jesus.
There is a new way of seeing that is given to us when we
keep our goal in mind. In every human
effort, we take aim at something and find out how to reach whatever we are
aiming for. If we aim too low, we miss
the goal. If we try to create a goal
that is other than our true purpose, even if we are - in our own limited way of
understanding - aiming high, we will miss the mark.
Aiming for the fullness of Life in Jesus Christ,
acknowledging that it is His Sacred Humanity that gives us the capacity we have
for a living relationship with God, we are destined to reach the glory held in
store for us. The distance between where
we are and where we are going is vast.
But Jesus has made it possible and His Spirit, the Father’s Gift to us,
will enable us to reach that goal.
This week, as we begin to return to life together, first
with weekday Masses and then with the celebration of Pentecost, let us keep our
eyes fixed on the Lord. He has promised
to be with us until the end of time. Our
duty is to bring the world to Christ, baptizing them in the Name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them all that Christ has taught
us. Come, Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire
of Your Love!
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