Theological Journal – May 20 Ascension Day: The God Who Completes
Tomorrow is Ascension Day. Ascension Day is about the God Who Completes. So far in the liturgical year we have met the God Who Calls (Advent), the God Who Comes (Christmas), the God Who Confronts (Epiphany), the God Who Cries (Lent), the God Who Confounds (Easter) and now the God Who Completes (Ascension). The rest of the year we’ll celebrate the God Who Comes Again (Pentecost), the Christian God (Trinity Sunday), the Cosmocrator (Christ the King Sunday) before starting anew with Advent next year. But what does Ascension Day complete? It completes God’s work through Jesus, as the reflection below shows. It’s the Feet that Matter In Acts’ account of Jesus’ ascension we read “as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight” (1:9). Presumably, as the story goes, Jesus’ feet were the last part of him his apostles could see. After receiving their commission to be Jesus’ witness throughout the world, the apostles’ feet remain...