Tomorrow is the Sunday within the octave of the glorious Ascension of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. What an awesome sight it must have been to the believers who saw it! Of course we are to hear from St. Peter and from St. John, but I'm going to pass on something from the 'Liturgical Year' by Abbot Gueranger. We can think about this while we're waiting for the Holy Ghost appear once again. Here it is:'...Glory then, be to the justice of the Father, who has dealt thus with His Son! Let us rejoice at seeing the Man of sorrows become now the King of glory; and let us, with all the transport of our souls, repeat the hosannawherewith the angels welcomed Him into heaven.
Nor must we suppose that the Son of Man now that He is seated on the throne of His Divinity, is inactive in His glorious rest. No; the sovereignty bestowed upon Him by the Father, is an active one. First of all, He is appointed Judge of the living and of the dead, before whose judgement seat we must all stand. No sooner shall our soul have quitted the body, than she shall be presented before this tribunal, and receive from the lips of the Son of Man the sentence she will have deserved. O Jesus! by the glory Thou didst receive on the day of Thine Ascension, have mercy on us at that moment whereon depends eternity...'
Come, Holy Ghost, into our hearts; teach us and save us.
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