Today we celebrate the ascension of Christ into heaven. The ascension
is the sixth article of the creed and the second of the five glorious mysteries
of the Rosary we pray. Today is a holy day of obligation. Every Catholic is
expected to refrain from work and attend mass. Today, the Church asks us to
pause from all manual works and reflect for a while on the reality of heaven and
the temporality of our earthly existence.
St. Augustine wrote: “Jesus Christ our Lord went up on high:
let our hearts go up with him.” St. Paul admonishes us to “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 things that are on earth.” Those who have higher ambition
aim higher. We must therefore live above the world in order to make heaven. Heaven
is real, heaven is our home.
