5/13/18: Solemnity of the Ascension: Heaven is Here

The mystery of the Ascension that we celebrate today nudges us to think more about heaven. One of the reasons we might tend not to think about heaven very often is because it seems so far away... But when the Son of God became incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary, heaven came to earth. And when Jesus ascends to heaven, he ascends in a human body, having taken upon himself our humanity, and earth goes to heaven. So in Jesus there is no dichotomy between earth and heaven. This reality of heaven is upon whenever we encounter Jesus, who lives in our hearts and who touches us here and now, on this earth, if we let Him!