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Ascension Sunday: The Relationship Between Heaven and Earth
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
Ascension Sunday: The Relationship Between Heaven and Earth
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
May 17, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
May 17, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Whatsoever You Do...: Our Gospel for today is one of the most devastating texts in the New Testament. Jesus tells us that whenever we neglected to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the imprisoned, welcome the lonely, we failed to care for him. Dorothy Day said that eve... by Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies