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Wedged between Easter and Pentecost, Ascension could spend a little unnoticed. It would be unfortunate, because the mystery that is celebrated is very invigorating. See for yourself themselves.
A new presence
Ascension we first learned not to get their hands on Jesus. Christ followers escapes, it escapes our takeovers also possessive and selfish. If we dodge and claws, is to force us to believe in his new way of being present. Ascension we discover the deeper meaning of the Eucharist. Jesus no longer be with us because we want to be. He no longer has to be our traveling companion, as is our strength to walk. He no longer has to be a buddy that you can kiss and touch, since it becomes our life. It has to be seen more as it becomes our eyes. He no longer has to be our friend since it became our strength to love. He no longer has to be our interlocutor, since he became our word, more intimate to ourselves as ourselves.
Jesus ascended into heaven, we firmly plant in the ground. We are now, its unique presence to our brothers. Welcome the joyful mission given to us in this celebration. "Go into the world. Proclaim the Good News to all creation ... "Jesus, through our hands, our eyes, our lips, our feet and our hearts, wants, for us to continue ceaselessly continue to love, to meet and to save all men.
A fabulous destiny
The Ascension of the Lord is the completion of his Incarnation. St. Athanasius, that we celebrated a few days ago, reminded forcefully that "God became man so that man might become God." Through the coming of the Son of God in the world, the whole cosmos, the whole world and all the people living humans who are married by God. This mystery
care of the man Jesus is, where Christmas began in deepening. He digs into the scandal of the cross where the Son took upon himself all our distresses and our follies. He bursts in resurrection, the triumph of life over any death. He finally accomplished in Ascension.
On returning to the bosom of the Father but with all his weight of flesh and humanity, Jesus is divine. He makes us share the love of God. And with us, the whole universe is transfigured, because we are made of "stardust" as the title of an album of beautiful astrophysicist Hubert Reeves. Pope Leo wrote this luminous sentence: "The Ascension of Christ is our promotion. "
In this great body that forms the whole Christ, the head is already in heaven. Members already benefit from this divine happiness in which it bathes. Is a celebration of hope. For where the head is gone, Hence also the entire body pass.
The mission can begin. She is the joy of announcing to the world's most beautiful destiny.
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