Seventh Sunday (Ascension) of Easter

We are a week away from ending this Easter time. The liturgical season of celebration of rejoicing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. This Sunday in the readings we again get to hear who Jesus is, who Jesus came to be, and why he came. On this Ascension Sunday we celebrate Jesus, the one who defeated, the one who was victorious over sin and death. His time has come to return to his Father, to rule from the right-hand side of God the Father. This leaving us does not mean he is leaving us forever. It means as he ascends is that his body in this world is leaving to join His Father, to join our Father. Leave this world physically, but for forever be in each and every one of us. 
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The past couple of weeks of Easter have been a reminder of who Jesus is, why he came, and how we are to believe now that we have gotten to know him in this world. Today in the second reading we are told how Jesus will stay alive with and in us. How we as believers are called to believe. Not just in words, but through our actions. Doing so through the way we live. In Love, to maintain that love Jesus Christ leaves us with all the tools, blessings, and graces to be able to do so. The sacraments like reconciliation to care for our relationship with God and knowing that in this world we will fall, but God is there with open arms for us to reunite with him.

​The Eucharist as nourishment of that same sacrificial lamb to fill us with love and grace to continue the Christian mission. Coming to Mass knowing we are one in communion and uniting with our brothers and sisters around the altar to be nourished. We are also reminded of our relationship with God himself and with one another to be able to live out as faithful people. To be able to love the way God who created us loves us. To love sacrificially the way Jesus did when on earth to forgive our sins and free us from death. To one day all be able to rejoice in the heavens because of our free will, the grace of God, and his continuous never-ending love for us. We will one day be reunited with the ascended Christ and all those who believe in words and actions.