I too must accept the hardships and the trials of this life, if I want, and I do, to enter into the life of glory. It was written, and foretold, that Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory. Say : Thank you, God, for creating me, and for giving me, through the Incarnation of your beloved Son, the possibility and the assurance that if I do my part here, when death comes it will not be an enemy but a friend, to speed me on my way to the true, supernatural life which you have, in your love, planned and prepared for me. See Christ ascending to his Father and our Father.
It is only in heaven that this natural desire of an unending life with all those we love can be realized and death on earth is the door to that eternal life. That break is necessary for the new life to begin. Death breaks that continuity but only for a little while. What all human beings want is to live on forever with our dear ones. Yet the certitude that our beloved one has gone to his true life and will be there to meet us when our turn comes, is always at the back of our minds to console and comfort us. While it is true that even for good Christians the death of a beloved one is a cause of sorrow and tears, this is natural as we still are of the earth earthly.
There we'll begin our true life of eternal happiness. We shall all rise from the grave with new, glorified bodies and ascend to heaven, as Christ did. Today's feast-the Ascension of our Lord in his human nature-to his Father's and our Father's home, is the confirmation and the guarantee of this doctrine of our faith. Thank God, we have the good fortune to know, and reason and faith convince us of this truth, that death is not the end of man. The thought that every day that passes is bringing him too nearer to that same sad fate, death, which will be the end of all his ambitions, all his enjoyments, the end of everything he thought he was or had, must be something hard to live with. He is one who really is convinced that there is no God, no future life and therefore that the relative or friend is to turn into dust in the grave, never to be met with again. The Ascension The death of a member of his family or of a loved friend, must be the saddest event imaginable in the life of an atheist. The ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, and the State of Nebraska have retained the celebration of the Ascension of the Lord on the proper Thursday, while all other provinces have transferred this solemnity to today, the Seventh Sunday of Easter.Ĭlick here for commentary on the readings in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Filled with an immense hope, the Church looks up towards her leader, who precedes her into the heavenly home and takes her with Him in His own person: "for the Son of God, after incorporating in Himself those whom the devil's jealousy had banished from the earthly paradise, ascends again to His Father and takes them with Him" (St. But Christ's Ascension is the pledge of our own. The Church acclaims Him in His holy humanity, invited to sit on the Father's right hand and to share His glory.
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