ASCENSION AND THE ONSET OF THE CULMINATION OF THE EASTER EVENT IN CATHOLIC-CHRISTIAN LIFE.............

After rising from the Dead on the third day as He foretold, Jesus The Christ conqueror of sin and death, on the 40th Day of Easter according to the Catholic-Christian Faith Tradition, ascended into Heaven, returning to the right hand of God the Father.  Today the 7th Sunday of the Easter Season we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus.  The Ascension concretizes for us the promise and hope that we as Followers of the Risen and Ascended Christ and Believers in His Paschal Mystery, will also rise from death to Newness of Life and be co-heirs with Jesus in the Resurrection and Ascension who will share in the Eternal Life of God's Kingdom.  As we arrive at the last week of Easter 2013, what are you doing to Faithfully Witness to the Risen and Ascended Christ and our mutual joy filled expectation to be joined with Him Forever in the Communion of Saints ?  As we pray for the Coming of the Holy Spirit this Pentecost may we be imbued to exemplify the Newness of Life and Faith, the Risen, Ascended, Spirit Sending Jesus The Christ gives us.............Fr.  Troy