Meditation 72
MARY AND THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD
1. Prelude to the Ascension.
The risen Jesus can no longer remain in this world. He had never quited Heaven as God, it is true; but as man, He was entitled to the possession of the throne He had earned with His passion and death, with His victory over sin. The ascension is the complement of His glorification, since it was only through it that He could achieve, on entering Heaven, the plenitude of His glorification. Sin had locked the gates of Heaven, Christ was to open them again. Only to Him was this honor permitted. For that He had come down from Heaven. Now His work is over. The Redemption is a fact; men can look forward to Heaven as their own fatherland. Earth is nothing but a veritable exile. Heaven is our home, our goal, our final rest.
It was already forty days after the resurrection of Christ. Our Lord had many times appeared to strengthen the faith of His disciples and to confirm the reality of His resurrection. How many times during these forty days did He not visit Our Heavenly Mother? He was not living with Her as before His death, but He must have lavished on Her the consolation of paying Her perhaps a daily visit. How such a visit would renew in Her all the joy of the day of His resurrection! How many graces would the Divine Son bestow on His Mother and how many things would He teach Her in those most happy days!
Ask Our Lady the grace of knowing how to visit Her, how to keep Her company; how to comfort Her.
Beg Her to teach you those things She knows would be useful to you. Ask Her to give you a share of the graces which Her Son lavished on Her during those happy days.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
MARY AND THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD
1. Prelude to the Ascension.
The risen Jesus can no longer remain in this world. He had never quited Heaven as God, it is true; but as man, He was entitled to the possession of the throne He had earned with His passion and death, with His victory over sin. The ascension is the complement of His glorification, since it was only through it that He could achieve, on entering Heaven, the plenitude of His glorification. Sin had locked the gates of Heaven, Christ was to open them again. Only to Him was this honor permitted. For that He had come down from Heaven. Now His work is over. The Redemption is a fact; men can look forward to Heaven as their own fatherland. Earth is nothing but a veritable exile. Heaven is our home, our goal, our final rest.
It was already forty days after the resurrection of Christ. Our Lord had many times appeared to strengthen the faith of His disciples and to confirm the reality of His resurrection. How many times during these forty days did He not visit Our Heavenly Mother? He was not living with Her as before His death, but He must have lavished on Her the consolation of paying Her perhaps a daily visit. How such a visit would renew in Her all the joy of the day of His resurrection! How many graces would the Divine Son bestow on His Mother and how many things would He teach Her in those most happy days!
Ask Our Lady the grace of knowing how to visit Her, how to keep Her company; how to comfort Her.
Beg Her to teach you those things She knows would be useful to you. Ask Her to give you a share of the graces which Her Son lavished on Her during those happy days.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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