Sermon Thoughts – The Ascension of Our Lord – ( Year C)
——————- Christ is ascended in to Heaven. Whenever we pray our Creed, we recite and repeat this essential faith-factor. In the early times we thought that this earth was something plain and the Heaven was a sphere above to it. But according to the changes happened in the world, man started to think different on Heaven…
Heaven in icons got no blue color. It is “written” in Golden color. Heaven got another spiritual and theological rethinking. It is not a physical world, as the earth. It is something Spiritual…
For me the ascension of Jesus Christ is the return to His Origin. And through him we too participate in this returning process. The great retuning to God.
Jesus was in “heaven” even before his incarnation. Heaven, where he enjoyed God, his Father’s presence in the full divinity, together with the Holy Spirit. Now through his incarnation he could extend his relation to the humans too.
His life here on earth was not an obstacle in communicating with his divine partners in heaven. He remained in it ever new, through silence, through prayers, through his proclamation, through wonders…
Now he has won his mission on earth. He won the human minds too. In that way his ascension in to heaven is not a “lonely – return-trip”. Together with his ascension, he lifts up the hearts of many here on earth. Jesus’ mission was for that. To “reset” the broken chains of God-Men relationship, that once existed in the Eden garden. To invite us humanity to the divine freedom of his heaven. To a special world of relations…
It was Sin that separated men from God.
Sin, something that is relevant today too.
It can be our ambitions…
it can be our over projected selfishness…
it can be our blind trust on our own abilities…
it can be our intellectual and technical capacities…
Sin comes under many equations in our present world.
If something comes between our smooth relationship with God, it can be easily called as Sin.
I have heard in my childhood, Muslims keep away from swines, because they don’t lift their heads to heaven. This information can be right or wrong. But there is a great message in it.
“Lifting once head” signifies and symbolizes one’s relationship with God.
Accepting the higher assistance in our life.
But that has another side too. The question of angels is meaningful in this case. “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? “
That means we have to realize the divine assistance above us, but also have to go forward, concentrating on our earthly ways.
Jesus’ ascension is an invitation of all these aspects. It reminds me to think on my God relation. It reminds my present status. It reminds me to go forward. Some times look for higher goals.
More over, to keep an uninterrupted contact with God.
Jesus ascension is a guide for us… It is accomplished only when we too are able to follow Jesus.
Let us work for it…let us pray for it…Let us help each other…May God bless us all. Amen!
–
Fr Thomas Kalathil
——————- Christ is ascended in to Heaven. Whenever we pray our Creed, we recite and repeat this essential faith-factor. In the early times we thought that this earth was something plain and the Heaven was a sphere above to it. But according to the changes happened in the world, man started to think different on Heaven…
Heaven in icons got no blue color. It is “written” in Golden color. Heaven got another spiritual and theological rethinking. It is not a physical world, as the earth. It is something Spiritual…
For me the ascension of Jesus Christ is the return to His Origin. And through him we too participate in this returning process. The great retuning to God.
Jesus was in “heaven” even before his incarnation. Heaven, where he enjoyed God, his Father’s presence in the full divinity, together with the Holy Spirit. Now through his incarnation he could extend his relation to the humans too.
His life here on earth was not an obstacle in communicating with his divine partners in heaven. He remained in it ever new, through silence, through prayers, through his proclamation, through wonders…
Now he has won his mission on earth. He won the human minds too. In that way his ascension in to heaven is not a “lonely – return-trip”. Together with his ascension, he lifts up the hearts of many here on earth. Jesus’ mission was for that. To “reset” the broken chains of God-Men relationship, that once existed in the Eden garden. To invite us humanity to the divine freedom of his heaven. To a special world of relations…
It was Sin that separated men from God.
Sin, something that is relevant today too.
It can be our ambitions…
it can be our over projected selfishness…
it can be our blind trust on our own abilities…
it can be our intellectual and technical capacities…
Sin comes under many equations in our present world.
If something comes between our smooth relationship with God, it can be easily called as Sin.
I have heard in my childhood, Muslims keep away from swines, because they don’t lift their heads to heaven. This information can be right or wrong. But there is a great message in it.
“Lifting once head” signifies and symbolizes one’s relationship with God.
Accepting the higher assistance in our life.
But that has another side too. The question of angels is meaningful in this case. “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? “
That means we have to realize the divine assistance above us, but also have to go forward, concentrating on our earthly ways.
Jesus’ ascension is an invitation of all these aspects. It reminds me to think on my God relation. It reminds my present status. It reminds me to go forward. Some times look for higher goals.
More over, to keep an uninterrupted contact with God.
Jesus ascension is a guide for us… It is accomplished only when we too are able to follow Jesus.
Let us work for it…let us pray for it…Let us help each other…May God bless us all. Amen!
–
Fr Thomas Kalathil
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