{"id":22031,"date":"2021-05-13T06:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T10:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=22031"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:31:46","slug":"our-ladys-help-in-seeking-the-things-that-are-above-ascension-thursday-b-may-13-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/our-ladys-help-in-seeking-the-things-that-are-above-ascension-thursday-b-may-13-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady&#8217;s Help in Seeking the Things That Are Above, Ascension Thursday (B), May 13, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nSacred Heart Convent of the Sisters of Life, New York, NY<br \/>\nSolemnity of the Ascension, Year B<br \/>\nMay 13, 2021<br \/>\nActs 1:1-11, Ps 47, Eph 1:17-23, Mk 16:15-20<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of today\u2019s homily, please\u00a0click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22031-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.13.21_Homily_1.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.13.21_Homily_1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/catholicpreaching\/5.13.21_Homily_1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided the homily: \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today we can look at the three principal things that the Church normally marks on the Ascension, the three chief aspects of this mystery we ponder when we meditate on the second glorious mystery of the Rosary: the reality of heaven and Christ\u2019s ascent there; his great commission to the apostles and the Church to continue his work; and the parting gift, the perpetual blessing he gives us to help us complete that mission and one day join him in heaven with many others, the Holy Spirit. And as the Ascension this year falls on May 13, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, we can examine how Our Lady helps us to live each of these three realities.<\/li>\n<li>The first reality we celebrate today is\u00a0heaven. Today we celebrate the day Jesus\u00a0returned <em>home<\/em>, to the place from which he came to earth to save us. He returned differently than he left, taking our human nature with him across the threshold of death into life. 43 days before his Ascension, during the Last Supper, Jesus told his closest followers about this connection between his ascension and our assumption. He said, \u201cI am going to the Father, \u2026 the one who sent me\u201d (Jn 14:17, 16:5). But he also said, \u201cYou have faith in God, have faith also in me. In my Father\u2019s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.\u201d Heaven is the place where Christ has prepared for us so that we might rejoice with him forever. \u201cHe mounts his throne to shouts of joy\u201d and he wants us to be able to experience that joy.\u00a0Jesus often spoke about the great <em>joy<\/em> of heaven. He took his contemporaries\u2019 most popular celebration \u2014\u00a0an eight-day sumptuous wedding banquet \u2014\u00a0and used it time and again to describe the unending joy of the eternal wedding banquet (Mt 22, Mt 25, Lk 12, Rev 19, Rev 21). St. Paul and Isaiah affirm that \u201ceye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor the human heart conceived what God has prepared for those who love him\u201d (1 Cor 2:9; Is 64:4). This is what St. Paul prayed that the Ephesians realize in today\u2019s second reading, \u201cI pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints.\u201d Heaven is our hope. Heaven is our glorious inheritance. But it\u2019s a hope and an inheritance to which we\u2019re \u201ccalled.\u201d To obtain it, we have to respond to that call, by following Christ the Lord all the way, through a life of faith in him, in imitation of the love with which he loved us. And that begins with our desire. Our focus on Jesus\u2019 Ascension, not just today but every few days when we pray the Glorious mysteries of the Rosary, is meant to stoke our desire. We heard St. Paul tell us on Easter Sunday: \u201cIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth\u201d (Col 3:1-2). We are called to seek the things that are above, to hunger for heaven, for God, for eternity. This Solemnity of the Ascension is meant to stoke our desire for Christ\u2019s face, to see him with the eyes of our heart enlightened. We prayed in the opening prayer today that Christ\u2019s Ascension may give us hope for our following him all the way: \u201cFor the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation, and, where the Head has gone before us in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope.\u201d\u00a0And we know that in heaven, Jesus is not just awaiting us. He\u2019s interceding for us. God the Father, as St. Paul tells us in the second reading,\u201crais[ed] him from the dead\u00a0and seat[ed] him at his right hand in the heavens,\u00a0far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion\u201d and \u201cput all things beneath his feet.\u201d He\u2019s praying for us so that we may know \u201cthe fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The second reality we mark today is\u00a0the mission Jesus gives us as he ascends: to be witnesses to him, to his message, to his work. He has all power in heaven, as we see in the Ephesians, but in gives that power to us in the Church to fulfill his mission. He tells us in St. Mark&#8217;s Gospel today, \u201cGo into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.&#8221; And we see that after Jesus was taken up into heaven, &#8220;they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.&#8221; Jesus\u00a0loved us enough and he trusted us so much that he placed his own mission into our hands.\u00a0And he wants us to go out to help others become his followers, to be set free by his truth, to live in his presence in this world so that we may live with him ascended forever. Jesus could have stayed on earth until the end of time saving everyone himself, one-by-one, so that our frailties wouldn\u2019t get in the way of this most important mission of all time. But instead he ascended, taking the training wheels off of our discipleship, removing from us any excuse to pass the buck. He wants us to help draw others to the throne of grace in this world and forever. That\u2019s the great commission. But he hasn\u2019t left us on our own.\u00a0St. Luke tells us in his Gospel that Jesus \u201cled them out as far as Bethany,\u00a0raised his hands, and blessed them.\u00a0<em>As he was blessing\u00a0them<\/em> he parted from them\u00a0and was taken up to heaven.\u201d Jesus departed as he was blessing us. Pope Benedict commented once that the Risen Jesus perpetually in heaven is blessing us:\u00a0\u201cJesus departs in the act of blessing. He goes while blessing, and he remains in that gesture of blessing. His hands remain, stretched out over this world. \u2026 The gesture of hands outstretched in blessing expresses Jesus\u2019 continuing relationship to his disciples, to the world. In departing, he comes to us, in order to raise us up above ourselves and to open up the world to God. That is why the disciples could return home from Bethany rejoicing. In faith we know that Jesus holds his hands stretched out in blessing over us. That is the lasting motive of Christian joy.\u201d Jesus is continually blessing us and through his hands raised in blessing, he\u2019s seeking to transforms us into his enfleshed benediction of the world. St. Teresa of Avila famously said, \u201cChrist has no body but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The third reality we mark is the help he gives us to complete that mission. He sends us the Holy Spirit. In the valedictory address St. Luke records in today\u2019s first reading, he says, \u201cYou will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,\u00a0and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,\u00a0throughout Judea and Samaria,\u00a0and to the ends of the earth.\u201d And that\u2019s the power that came down upon them on Pentecost, what St. Paul in today\u2019s second reading called the \u201cSpirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him.\u201d \u00a0During the Last Supper, Jesus had said something startling, which we pondered two days ago: \u201cI tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you\u201d (Jn 16:7). He was describing the incredible gift of the Holy Spirit\u2019s presence as something even greater than his own presence. Today as we begin the decenarium or ten days of prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we like the apostles and earliest members of the Church pray together for greater docility and openness to the Holy Spirit\u2019s fire.<\/li>\n<li>And like the apostles and first disciples, we huddle around Mary. Today we mark the 104th anniversary \u00a0of her appearances in Fatima to Saint Jacinta and Francisco and the Servant of God L\u00facia and we look at her message and life within the context of today&#8217;s Solemnity. Mary&#8217;s assumption is related to Christ&#8217;s ascension. She shows us the eschatological fulfillment of our vocation. She also shows us God&#8217;s mercy in allowing her to come to us to show us better how to follow Christ the Way all the way to place where he has gone to prepare for us, in contrast to the reality of where poor sinners go, which she showed them. Mary urged as the remedy to the sin that leads to hell, that leads to atheistic communion, and the sufferings of the Church as consecration to her Immaculate Heart, which means echoing the beating of her pure heart, her fiat, her seeking the things that are above where the Blessed Fruit of her womb is seated at the right hand of God the Father. She indicated to Francisco and Jacinta the way to heaven and promised to lead them there quickly. She wants to lead us all there. Second, Mary also shows us how to be witnesses to him. Her whole life was a mystery of the Visitation, bringing Christ to others to help them in him find and leap for joy. Fatima was a visitation to all of us so that we might learn better how to live the Gospel, how to correspond to Christ&#8217;s blessing. Part of that message was prayer and repentance for the conversion of sinners. Mary, finally, shows us how to receive the Holy Spirit. At the annunciation she was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and always remained under that divine shadow, indicating to us the path to similar docility. She is a witness to the power of his gifts and fruit. She led the members of the early Church in praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and she came in Fatima to help us to learn how to do that anew. She does that in a particular way through the Holy Rosary. She asked the Shepherd Children to pray the Rosary and showed them how to do it properly. She identified herself in June as Our Lady of the Rosary. That is the school that prepares us for the perpetual Pentecost.<\/li>\n<li>Entering Mary&#8217;s school culminates on earth in the worship of her Son in the Holy Eucharist, where Jesus\u2019 act of continual blessing happens. Here Jesus continues to speak to us and more\u00a0importantly continues to be with us blessing us from the inside with his own life, allowing us to receive his risen and ascended Body and Blood, which is our participation here on earth in his ascension even now. Jesus pointed to the Ascension when he was describing his continued presence in the Eucharist until the end of time. When his disciples were mumbling in Capernaum about how he could give us his flesh to eat and blood to drink, he said, \u201cDo you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?\u201d Living a truly Eucharistic life, entering into Jesus\u2019 consecration in the Mass, is the path of our Ascension. \u201cAmen, amen I say to you, \u2026 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him on the last day,\u201d because \u201che who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.\u2026 He who eats me will live because of me.\u201d Eternal life is knowing Christ Jesus, and we know him in a Biblical way through the consummation of the one-flesh spousal union between Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride the Church here at Mass, effected by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is also the means in which we stoke our desire to see the High Priest who reigns in heaven and bids us approach the throne of grace to receive mercy. This is the means in which, united with Christ, we are sent out by him with his blessing at the end of the liturgy, to \u201cgo and announce the Gospel of the Lord!,\u201d with the power of the Holy Spirit, that the world so much needs. God has indeed mounted his throne to shouts of joy. Mary is now at his right side interceding for us. Let us open ourselves to the power of the Holy Spirit so that we might become a \u201cblare of trumpets for the Lord!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl><\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/acts\/1:1\">ACTS 1:1-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">In the first book, Theophilus,<br \/>\nI dealt with all that Jesus did and taught<br \/>\nuntil the day he was taken up,<br \/>\nafter giving instructions through the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nto the apostles whom he had chosen.<br \/>\nHe presented himself alive to them<br \/>\nby many proofs after he had suffered,<br \/>\nappearing to them during forty days<br \/>\nand speaking about the kingdom of God.<br \/>\nWhile meeting with them,<br \/>\nhe enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,<br \/>\nbut to wait for \u201cthe promise of the Father<br \/>\nabout which you have heard me speak;<br \/>\nfor John baptized with water,<br \/>\nbut in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen they had gathered together they asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cLord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?\u201d<br \/>\nHe answered them, \u201cIt is not for you to know the times or seasons<br \/>\nthat the Father has established by his own authority.<br \/>\nBut you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you,<br \/>\nand you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,<br \/>\nthroughout Judea and Samaria,<br \/>\nand to the ends of the earth.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen he had said this, as they were looking on,<br \/>\nhe was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight.<br \/>\nWhile they were looking intently at the sky as he was going,<br \/>\nsuddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them.<br \/>\nThey said, \u201cMen of Galilee,<br \/>\nwhy are you standing there looking at the sky?<br \/>\nThis Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven<br \/>\nwill return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/47:2\">PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R. (6)\u00a0God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nAll you peoples, clap your hands,<br \/>\nshout to God with cries of gladness,<br \/>\nFor the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,<br \/>\nis the great king over all the earth.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nGod mounts his throne amid shouts of joy;<br \/>\nthe LORD, amid trumpet blasts.<br \/>\nSing praise to God, sing praise;<br \/>\nsing praise to our king, sing praise.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<br \/>\nFor king of all the earth is God;<br \/>\nsing hymns of praise.<br \/>\nGod reigns over the nations,<br \/>\nGod sits upon his holy throne.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.<br \/>\nor:<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/ephesians\/1:17\">EPH 1:17-23<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nMay the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,<br \/>\ngive you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation<br \/>\nresulting in knowledge of him.<br \/>\nMay the eyes of your hearts be enlightened,<br \/>\nthat you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call,<br \/>\nwhat are the riches of glory<br \/>\nin his inheritance among the holy ones,<br \/>\nand what is the surpassing greatness of his power<br \/>\nfor us who believe,<br \/>\nin accord with the exercise of his great might,<br \/>\nwhich he worked in Christ,<br \/>\nraising him from the dead<br \/>\nand seating him at his right hand in the heavens,<br \/>\nfar above every principality, authority, power, and dominion,<br \/>\nand every name that is named<br \/>\nnot only in this age but also in the one to come.<br \/>\nAnd he put all things beneath his feet<br \/>\nand gave him as head over all things to the church,<br \/>\nwhich is his body,<br \/>\nthe fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.<\/p>\n<h4>Alleluia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/28:19\">MT 28:19A, 20B<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>R.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<br \/>\nGo and teach all nations, says the Lord;<br \/>\nI am with you always, until the end of the world.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0Alleluia, alleluia.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/mark\/16:15\">MK 16:15-20<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Jesus said to his disciples:<br \/>\n\u201cGo into the whole world<br \/>\nand proclaim the gospel to every creature.<br \/>\nWhoever believes and is baptized will be saved;<br \/>\nwhoever does not believe will be condemned.<br \/>\nThese signs will accompany those who believe:<br \/>\nin my name they will drive out demons,<br \/>\nthey will speak new languages.<br \/>\nThey will pick up serpents with their hands,<br \/>\nand if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.<br \/>\nThey will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,<br \/>\nwas taken up into heaven<br \/>\nand took his seat at the right hand of God.<br \/>\nBut they went forth and preached everywhere,<br \/>\nwhile the Lord worked with them<br \/>\nand confirmed the word through accompanying signs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/images1.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/images1.jpeg?resize=183%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1899\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" 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