Jesus first rose from the grave in a new Resurrection Body, but after about 40 days He "rose" a second time when He floated off to Heaven, ascending in the skies, in order to rejoin His Father in Heaven. His Ascent from the planet Earth was a wondrous moment that the Bible tells us...
Jesus first rose from the grave in a new Resurrection Body, but after about 40 days He "rose" a second time when He floated off to Heaven, ascending in the skies, in order to rejoin His Father in Heaven. His Ascent from the planet Earth was a wondrous moment that the Bible tells us...
This took place on the long 3 or 4-day journey by foot from Galilee to Jerusalem, along the Jordan River valley, coming to Jericho, ascending to Jerusalem from the east. It was in Jerusalem that he prepared and settled the matter for the perpetuation of the Church at the Lord's last ...
"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it" (Gen 28:12). This ladder is Jesus Christ, the son of man, as is clear by the evangelist John (John 1:51). And in tha...
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In the midst of exile, Daniel is shown a peek into the future and sees a human ascending to heaven where he will sit on a throne next to the Ancient of Days, God the Father. That man is Jesus. Because of a sinless life on earth… Because He – the Son of God made human – su...
In the midst of exile, Daniel is shown a peek into the future and sees a human ascending to heaven where he will sit on a throne next to the Ancient of Days, God the Father. That man is Jesus. Because of a sinless life on earth… Because He – the Son of God made human – su...
He is the way to the Father, and there is no coming to the Father but by Christ. This is the ladder that Jacob saw, passing between heaven and earth, and the angels ascending and descending upon it. It is upon the footing of the mediation of the Son of God that the "angels are ...
As explained earlier, the three days that Christ spent in the Grave refer to the three days period of Solstice. The sun, after it reaches its lowest point of declination, on December 22, Hesitates in Place for three days, before re-ascending northward toward the vernal equinox. The priest ...
For physical and directional beings like ourselves, the imagery of ascending into the sky feels true enough. “Seek the things that are above,” St. Paul tells us (Col. 3:1). “Lift up your hearts,” says the priest at every mass. We don’t have to deny astronomy to know what thes...