Ascension

Friday, May 18th, 2012 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Ascension

In grade school, the feast of the Ascension was all about the annual school picnic. But, of course, it is about more than that. Early Christian writers saw Christ’s ascension as having enormous significance for the whole human family, for ...

The Ascension

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in writing | Comments Off on The Ascension

As seminarians, my Jesuit buddies and I figured that the perfect entrance song for the feast of the Ascension would be the then-popular song “Up, Up, and Away." However, the feast is not really about Jesus going up, up, and away. ...