Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, we've come to this great but I think so often

misunderstood feast of the ascension of the Lord. I have a feeling that a lot of

Christ is kind of Passover this feast. You know they think okay Easter I get

that. Christ's medicine understand that. The ascension of the Lord so Jesus goes

up into the sky and goes away. I think most Christians just kind of turn away

from this feast. As I say, far too often we think of it as this time when Jesus

left us. So, off he goes, do you know the depictions you'll often see in

classical stained glass of the ascension is the you know the puzzle disciples

looking up and there's a cloud and then two little feet coming out of the cloud

because up Jesus goes and he's gone you know and that we hope one fine day he'll

come back but you know for the moment he's kind of left us. Well to think this

way is to miss much of the point of the New Testament. We've had this

privilege throughout the Easter season of reading from the Acts of the Apostles

and I've been urging you to take out your Bibles and just read through it. You

can't do it in one sitting but you know it's not that long and it's a wonderful

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