[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus gently tells his disciples of his
impending return to his Father in heaven. *We tend to read the Ascension
along essentially Enlightenment lines, rather than biblical lines—and that
causes a good deal of mischief. Enlightenment thinkers introduced a
two-tier understanding of heaven and earth. They held that God exists, but
that he lives in a distant realm called heaven, where he looks at the human
project moving along, pretty much on its own steam, on earth.

On this Enlightenment reading, the Ascension means that Jesus goes up, up,
and away, off to a distant and finally irrelevant place. But
*the biblical point is this: Jesus has gone to heaven so as to direct
operations more fully here on earth. That’s why we pray, “Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”*

*Jesus has *not *gone *up, up, and away, but rather—if I can put it this
way—*more deeply into our world. He has gone to a dimension that transcends
but impinges upon our universe.*


*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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