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Who brought you to church today?\u00a0Who sent you there?\u00a0While you were forced?\u00a0The kids could play computer games, you left the pots on the stove and left them.\u00a0After all, what happens here happens the same every day, doesn’t it?\u00a0And therefore, who caused you to come here?\u00a0Is there something special about this temple that you preferred over other activities?\u00a0Is there anything better?\u00a0Or did you take it as your duty?\u00a0After all, there are so many movies, interests, and other uses of time, why spend your time here? These minutes will never come back, the part of life we \u200b\u200blived here will never change!\u00a0Never!\u00a0We sacrificed a few minutes of our lives to God.\u00a0This moment will forever be recorded in our life, it cannot be changed!<\/span><\/p>\n

“When they saw him, they worshipped him. but some doubted.\u00a0Jesus approached them and said to them: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.\u00a0Go then…” (Mt 28:16-20). Jesus sends his disciples to be his witnesses and live his life. It happens every day after Holy Mass when the priest says: Go in the name of God.” Jesus’ departure from Earth connected the cross and the crown. The Ascension took place on the Mount of Olives, at its foot lies Bethany.\u00a0When they passed through it, they also passed through the Garden of Gethsemane, and through the place where he wept over Jerusalem.\u00a0His heart was not filled with bitterness from the cross, because the ascension was the fruit of the crucifixion.\u00a0As he said, it was fitting that he should suffer and thus enter into glory.\u00a0He shows us an example of how we can reach heaven – through suffering, the cross, and through love. He sends people, he sends us.\u00a0Jesus goes to his Father and sends us among people.\u00a0Our task consists of learning, in keeping everything that the Lord has commanded us; our mission lies in the love of God.\u00a0We are in this world because God’s love caused it.\u00a0Everything in our life develops from love.\u00a0After all, the apostles, when Jesus was ascending to heaven, were staring at the sky.\u00a0The one they loved is leaving them.\u00a0But God encourages them through the angels: Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven?<\/span><\/p>\n

This Jesus … will come as you saw him go into heaven” (Acts 1.9-11). When he ascended into heaven, he blessed them. They should wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. They filled with joy and did so. Although, even though they stayed in the city, they did not just wait passively. But the Scripture says: “…with great joy, they returned to Jerusalem. They were still in the temple and glorified God” (Lk 24.52b-53). They waited for the Holy Spirit in joy and prayers. They did not know when he would come, but they remained in the temple, praising God and waiting, encouraged by the promise of Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus is leaving, who is going to prepare a place for us in his kingdom, and power is coming from on high.\u00a0Jesus did not leave completely, only physically, because, in each person of the Holy Trinity, there is the whole of God. After all, then the Lord’s words that he will be with us for all days until the end of the world would not apply.\u00a0He is with us precisely through the Holy Spirit.\u00a0Jesus’ ascension ends his physical activity on earth and begins the action of the apostles, our witnesses. Jesus is the King of heaven, he told Pilate himself (cf. Lk 23:2-3).\u00a0According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, heaven does not denote a place, a kind of space, but the majesty of God and his presence in the hearts of the righteous (CCC 2802).\u00a0However, Jesus is a different King than the worldly king (cf. Jn 18.36).\u00a0His kingdom is not of this world, his kingdom is a kingdom of love and peace.\u00a0He is the King who thinks more of the good of his creatures,\u00a0to their happiness.\u00a0\u201cThose.\u00a0who die in God’s grace and friendship with God, and are perfectly purified, live forever with Christ.\u00a0They are forever like God” (CCC 1023), because they see him face to face. He. The King. came, descended to his creation, and became their servant. Jesus became our servant (cf. Phil 2, 7) so that he showed us an example of humble and devoted following of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a boy or girl is in love, they can stare at their partner.\u00a0When the disciples looked up to heaven, they expressed their love for Jesus.\u00a0Jesus ascended physically to heaven, but in doing so He descended spiritually into the heart of man.\u00a0The Lord can dwell in the heart all the time, it depends on the openness and purity of our heart.\u00a0By ascending to heaven, he wants to arouse in us the desire for heaven.\u00a0Jesus’ ascension does not want to take us physically out of this world but wants our hearts to be always in God’s presence, to be in heaven. When Jesus prayed, he said: “I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one” (Jn 17:15). Christ sends us to families, to various jobs, to communities. To be physically among people, but with the heart to be ascended to heaven, to the glory of God. Being in the presence of the Lord can be proved by our mind is always fixed on God, that we awaken the intention to do everything for the love of God.\u00a0It is sometimes difficult to do this, but daily prayer will slowly begin to introduce us to it.\u00a0Whenever we remember God, then we can arouse our love for God so that at the end of our lives we too can honestly say: It is finished” (Jn 19.30). Jesus won for us eternal life, which we will live in communion with God, we contemplate, we always look at his face and we are happy. And all we need is the desire for God, for heaven, and the pursuit of a pure life. we contemplate, we keep looking at his face, and we are happy. And all we require is the desire for God, for heaven, and the pursuit of a clean life. we contemplate, we keep looking at his face, and we are happy. And all we need is the desire for God, for heaven, and the pursuit of a clean life.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. John Maria Vianney says: “We could be holy and even work miracles, but if we lack love, we will not get to heaven.” God has shown us his love, and now it is our turn to show our love for him. May we example, Abraham, who obeyed God with love and wanted to sacrifice his only son? And many others… Such heroism is possible only out of love for God. “Because God is the king of the whole earth. sing to him a song of praise, God reigns over the nations. God sits on to his holy throne” (Psalm 47:8-9). So why did we come here, who drew us here to the temple?\u00a0It is this God, his love.\u00a0The King of the entire earth and heaven, who still gives himself to us today in the forms of bread and wine. He ascended to heaven today and wants to take us too.\u00a0therefore he used maybe our friend, Mom or Dad. Grandma or we came because we long for heaven. into which only the saints will enter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, you are the one to whom all power is given in heaven and on earth, King of Israel, thank you for giving us life today with you and your Father in heaven Thank you that today we have become owners of paradise we are with you mystically and at the same time realistically raised to heavenly heights. Through you, we have gained extraordinary grace from what we have lost. Please make us holy, so that we always do everything with love, and that we keep everything that you have commanded us. Teacher, teach us to be always in your presence, to be a witness.\u00a0Lord, arm us with power from on high, I want to reach heaven, help me.\u00a0Holy Spirit, I am waiting for you, come!\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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