But when the Holy Spirit comes on you will receive power and will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Having said that, while they watched, was taken to the heights until a cloud hid him from their sight.
They kept staring at the sky as he walked away. Suddenly, they were approached by two men dressed in white, told them:
-Galilee, What do ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go.
(Acts 1, 8 - 11)
"Up or down? "Up or down?
The Ascension of the Lord seems to us to look to the sky above. The risen Lord has gone. Left alone with the apostles. It seems that for ever, believers, followers of Jesus, should stay that way: looking at the sky. Celebrásemos is as if a final farewell, farewell to Jesus. If death has not separated him of all of us because in three days we celebrate the resurrection, now, at forty days, the goodbye is real. The group of disciples left alone and abandoned, on top of a hill.
I am always with you
But it is not. Not so. The Gospel ends with a strong statement of Jesus: "Know that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Not "be with me in heaven" but "I'm with you." He is with us down here. Always. It is time therefore to feel desolate, abandoned, sad and downcast. It is time to stare sky as it has been made and no girlfriend.
is time to download, view back to life, walking the roads to witness, to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. He walks with us. He does not stop his hand. He will be present in our lives by the Holy Spirit sends us.
were eating together
That presence has moments when you feel especially close. Can not be a casual detail that the author of the Acts place the scene of the ascension of Jesus in the context of a meal. Thus begins: "Once you eat together ...".
Meals are very important in the Gospel. Remember Jesus' meals with sinners, the multiplication of the loaves, the wedding at Cana. Recall the solemn moment of the Last Supper, the disciples' encounters with the risen Jesus on the lake, when waiting at the shore with a fish on the coals, and the two at Emmaus recognized him "breaking of bread."
These foods are all Masses, celebrations of the brotherhood of the Kingdom, the encounter with the Father who creates a new relationship between those involved in them. The Eucharist has been for the community of believers as the climax to experience the presence of Jesus in our lives. Advertise
the Kingdom: God as Father live
Today, twenty centuries later, is in the Eucharist where we can experience the power of the Spirit to make us understand the hope to which we are called, the wealth of glory that offers us an extraordinary legacy and greatness of his power to us. You have to read and reread the reading of Ephesians on Sunday. It is the key to what we are, what the passage of Jesus for our lives. Those fishermen were turned into apostles. And they could not see beyond their nets full of holes preached the message of hope and life, the love of God to all corners of known world.
went down the hill and went on the road to preach the kingdom, to invite you all to know Jesus, to make those who met them experience the love of God and feel what they are: sons and daughters of God . The disciples down from the mountain and mixed in the river of life to men and women of his time to share with them the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties "as we recalled the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes of Vatican II. So the Kingdom is becoming life and reality in our world.
The Ascension of the Lord seems to us to look to the sky above. The risen Lord has gone. Left alone with the apostles. It seems that for ever, believers, followers of Jesus, should stay that way: looking at the sky. Celebrásemos is as if a final farewell, farewell to Jesus. If death has not separated him of all of us because in three days we celebrate the resurrection, now, at forty days, the goodbye is real. The group of disciples left alone and abandoned, on top of a hill.
I am always with you
But it is not. Not so. The Gospel ends with a strong statement of Jesus: "Know that I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Not "be with me in heaven" but "I'm with you." He is with us down here. Always. It is time therefore to feel desolate, abandoned, sad and downcast. It is time to stare sky as it has been made and no girlfriend.
is time to download, view back to life, walking the roads to witness, to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. He walks with us. He does not stop his hand. He will be present in our lives by the Holy Spirit sends us.
were eating together
That presence has moments when you feel especially close. Can not be a casual detail that the author of the Acts place the scene of the ascension of Jesus in the context of a meal. Thus begins: "Once you eat together ...".
Meals are very important in the Gospel. Remember Jesus' meals with sinners, the multiplication of the loaves, the wedding at Cana. Recall the solemn moment of the Last Supper, the disciples' encounters with the risen Jesus on the lake, when waiting at the shore with a fish on the coals, and the two at Emmaus recognized him "breaking of bread."
These foods are all Masses, celebrations of the brotherhood of the Kingdom, the encounter with the Father who creates a new relationship between those involved in them. The Eucharist has been for the community of believers as the climax to experience the presence of Jesus in our lives. Advertise
the Kingdom: God as Father live
Today, twenty centuries later, is in the Eucharist where we can experience the power of the Spirit to make us understand the hope to which we are called, the wealth of glory that offers us an extraordinary legacy and greatness of his power to us. You have to read and reread the reading of Ephesians on Sunday. It is the key to what we are, what the passage of Jesus for our lives. Those fishermen were turned into apostles. And they could not see beyond their nets full of holes preached the message of hope and life, the love of God to all corners of known world.
went down the hill and went on the road to preach the kingdom, to invite you all to know Jesus, to make those who met them experience the love of God and feel what they are: sons and daughters of God . The disciples down from the mountain and mixed in the river of life to men and women of his time to share with them the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties "as we recalled the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes of Vatican II. So the Kingdom is becoming life and reality in our world.
Fernando Torres, cmf
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