+ On this eve day of the Ascension of the Lord, Jesus
makes an emphatic statement: even though
I am raised, and will soon be ascended to my Father, I am still his
“Word-made-flesh” in the world – and always will be. And just as my audible
words are not mine, but reflect the voice of the Father speaking, so too what
the Spirit speaks, when he comes, will not be just his own thoughts and ideas,
but they will be entirely and solely mine, which are the Father’s still. This
means that what the Church (who is me) says in an official way has my very
solemn and special guarantee to be the truth of what I myself and my Father
say.
All the reason in the world,
all the philosophies in the world, all the academia in the world could never
reach the conclusions that one brief moment in the super-natural level can
grasp. Now it is the lot of the human being to exist on these two levels fully
and richly: the natural and the supernatural. Both together make for a
well-balanced human being. This is why St. Paul tells the Athenians that while
they are great thinkers, and among their many gods they even leave room for an
“unknown god” who seems to be a mysterious force, possibly greater than all the
others: Paul tells them exactly who that “unknown one” is: the one God of Creation, the one God who draws all people and even
the whole cosmos to himself, the one God who needs no sacrifices nor altars nor
statues built to him; the one God who sent his own Son into the world to
confirm his reality and teachings and to open the gates of heaven for everyone
for all times.
May we enjoy life both of this
world, but deeply in the super-natural life of God himself: the triune life of
love, sacrifice and praise!
I will
ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always!
Amen.
Alleluia.
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