Feast of Ascension of the Lord:

Feast day : 09 May

Today the Church celebrates an important feast, the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. The ascension of Jesus into Heaven marks the definitive entrance of Jesus’ humanity into God’s heavenly kingdom. By saying ‘seated at the right hand of the Father’ we understand that the glory and honor of Divinity which He had as the Son of God before all ages and as one being with the Father, is now seated ‘bodily’ after He became incarnate and was glorified in flesh. It is the Father’s power that raised up Christ his Son from the dead and by doing so, perfectly introduced His Son’s humanity including his body into the Holy Trinity. This is a great mystery.

His ascension into heaven is the irreversible entry of His humanity into Divine glory where He is seated from that time forward at the right hand of God. He precedes us as head of the Church into the Father’s glorious kingdom. Left to its own natural powers, humanity does not have access to the Father’s house, to God’s life and happiness. Through Christ, we his members, have confidence that we too shall go where He our Head has gone before us. As St.Paul says, “so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). Christ, “the first born from the dead” (Colossians 1:18) is the principle of our own resurrection.