The Ascension as a Gift of Faith
By Stephen P. White Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Ascension. (Depending on where you are; check your local listings.) It's worth pondering: Why did Christ ascend? Why, having conquered death, did He not remain? Wouldn't it have been simpler for a manifestly divine, resurrected Jesus to walk the earth, for however many millennia it might take, converting sinners by the unmistakable fact of His glorified bodily presence? In the Acts of the Apostles, the disciples ask Jesus a question which suggests that they were thinking along these lines themselves: "Lord, are you at this time…
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