Tag: Ascension

Ascension Thursday-on-Sunday (2)

Posted by deepcallstodeep15roc on May 31, 2017 in "In the Midst of Our Storms", Ascension, Baptism, Catholic, Catholic Mass, Catholicism, Death, Easter, Eucharist, Forgiveness, Ignatian Spirituality, light a fire, Light of the World, Liturgical Music, liturgy, religion, retreat, salt of the earth, SJ, spirituality, St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Mass, Triduum, Year of Mercy |No Comments

Here is the audio version of my homily from the feast of the Ascension.  Besides the presence/absence (connection/abandonment) paradox, I also take up the tension between openness and resistance to Christ’s ascension. The context: the baptism of little Charlotte.  

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Ascension Thursday-on-Sunday (!)

Posted by deepcallstodeep15roc on May 30, 2017 in "In the Midst of Our Storms", Ascension, Baptism, Catholic, Catholic Mass, Catholicism, Death, Easter, Eucharist, Evangelization, Forgiveness, Ignatian Spirituality, light a fire, Light of the World, Liturgical Music, liturgy, religion, retreat, salt of the earth, SJ, spirituality, St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Mass, Triduum, Year of Mercy |No Comments

Here is what I wrote for the Gesu bulletin for this feast.  I like it, anyway.  Let me know what you think.   For a few years not that long ago, I began to think of the feast of the Ascension as a celebration of abandonment, being left in the lurch, or Arnold saying, “I’ll […]

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