Ascension Sunday: The Relationship Between Heaven and Earth

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 May 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We tend to read the Ascension along enlightenment lines, as if Christ has gone to a distant, irrelevant place. The reality point is this: Jesus, in ascending into heaven, has not gone "up, up, and away." Rather, he has gone to heaven to direct operations more fully here on earth. Jesus has not abandoned earth, but rather, he intends to return in order to bring about the full reconciliation of heaven and earth. In the mean time, he has commissioned his follows to begin that work now... within the Church.

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0:00.0	This is Archbishop Blasupich, Archbishop of Chicago.
0:06.2	Today I invite you to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the
0:12.4	Word on Fire.
0:15.0	Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization
0:22.1	that utilizes media both old and new to share the faith on every continent and facilitate
0:29.3	and encounter with Christ in His church.
0:32.9	The efforts of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, engage the culture and bring the transformative
0:38.6	power of God's Word where it is most needed.
0:43.2	This is an invitation to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's Word of
0:48.3	love for each of us.
0:50.7	When our hearts are open, the Lord changes and transforms us so that we enter and begin
0:57.4	to share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ, who is the Word on Fire.
1:04.3	The global benefactors of Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries, with the support of the Archdiocese
1:09.6	of Chicago, now present Word on Fire.
1:15.8	Peace be with you.
1:18.0	Friends on this great feast of the Ascension, I want to turn again to the biblical scholar
1:24.0	NT Wright.
1:26.4	Someone who might find to be one of the most reliable guides in matters of heaven and
1:32.7	earth.
1:34.9	That's a phrase that we hear a lot in the Bible, the creator of heavens and the earth,
1:40.6	the Lord of heaven and earth, etc.
1:43.2	And it's implied throughout the readings for today.
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