Eyes Fixed on Heaven and Feet Firm on the Earth
The Feast of the Ascension – Cycle C
 Luke tells us in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:3) that Jesus was seen in his risen form for forty days.  After those forty days, Jesus was no more seen in his risen body.  The feast of today marks this stage of transition in the story of incarnation and resurrection – that Jesus is not visible in his earthly body as such.  Luke describes this “withdrawal” of Jesus (Lk 24:51) in terms of being “lifted up” (Acts 1:9).  And Mark describes it in terms of “being taken up into heaven” (Mk 16:19). Hence, “the ascension” of the Lord!  However, with our modern familiarity with rocket science, we shouldn’t be led to think of the feast […]

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Keeping the Word of God
On account of the influence of some contemporary trends in Christianity, which have moved away from understanding revelation as including Sacred Tradition, which have also moved from the encounter with God in Jesus at the celebration of the Eucharist, when some Christians hear the expression, “Word of God”, their immediate assumption is that ‘Word of God’ equals solely to the Bible.
When John 1:14 says, “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us,” is it that Bible became flesh? Or when Jesus says, as in the gospel of today, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him” (Jn 14:23), is he only talking about the […]

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