Ascension Living

By His Ascension, our Lord Jesus Christ has already opened heaven to us; hence we can no longer live restless, undecided, disturbed, wandering in the midst of ruins of all sorts that circumstances pile up around us. We can and should remain concentrated on that place where our true blessings are. It is our duty to build our certainties on the base of our faith and thus accustom ourselves to living serenely.

...We will not be able to reform everything; we will not succeed in fighting against all the things that irk us (because often what bothers us is illogical and contradictory); we will only wear ourselves out by wearing other people out. But let's try to tell ourselves, "All of that is trivial, since it must pass." And let us consider all of this from a slightly higher viewpoint. Then the mountains will be lowered, impossible situations will become simple difficulties. Isn't the landscape seen by someone who is walking quite different from that seen by the person who is flying over it? Let's not think that, if we rise above things this way, we are artificially escaping from the closed fields here below; no, faith really teaches us that we are already reigning in heaven with Christ who has entered there as Man-God for us. The only point of view from which we can judge things is God's.

~Mother Marie des Douleurs in Joy out of Sorrow

Dear Lord, Your Ascension brings me such hope and peace. Thank you for such a grand and glorious life, both here and now and forever after. Amen. Alleluia!