The Ascension of the Lord

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

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

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🗓️ 23 May 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The feast of the Ascension is meant to awaken hope. In Jesus, risen from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father, our lowly human nature participates in the very life of God. In the light of the ascension, therefore, we are permitted to hope for a way of being, elevated and perfected beyond our imagining.

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0:00.0	Word on Fire is brought to you by Catholic cemeteries,
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0:10.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes
0:15.0	to reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire. Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Baron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	word of love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us so that we might speak with love
0:33.6	about the one who is love.
0:36.6	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka
0:40.0	now presents the Word on Fire.
0:44.0	Peace be with you.
0:45.7	Friends, we're celebrating today the great feast of the ascension of the Lord.
0:50.3	This is the culmination.
0:53.3	In some ways, the completion of the Easter season because it's the completion of the Easter event.
0:59.0	Jesus now raised up to a full participation in the life of God.
1:05.0	Maybe to understand the ascension, we first have to clear up some misunderstandings. We shouldn't take
1:13.0	the ascension in a hyper-literalistic way. Now, here's what I mean, because I don't mean for
1:18.7	a second, we don't take it realistically. By the ascension, we don't mean, the church doesn't
1:23.8	mean, that Jesus has undertaken a journey within space and time.
1:30.3	As though the body of Jesus now goes up into the sky and continues a journey ever deeper into space.
1:37.3	What if we imagine even the body of Jesus moving at the speed of light?
1:42.3	Well, he'd be barely beyond the galaxy
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