God does not need Lent, we do. When I was a young man I had a priest friend who I now recall every time we begin the Forty Day Observance of Lent. About a week before Ash Wednesday he would say, .
The Ascension does not mark the end of Jesus relationship with His Church but the beginning of a new way of His relating to the world - in and through His Church. This way includes every one of us .
This is a Feast of profound meaning and promise, if we understand the message proclaimed by the Christian Church about who Jesus is - and who we are empowered to become in Him On this Feast of the .
Is this Feast a commemoration of an event which occurred 2000 years ago? Or, could it help unlock the meaning of our lives right now? Does it point to the plan of God for the entire created order? .
Jesus Christ is alive! He has been raised from the dead. He lives now, in and through you and me, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Stepping this into reality involves deciding daily to enter into .