[In Matthew’s Gospel,] Jesus assures us that he will always remain with us. Only when we realize that our lives are situated in a context of a Life that stretches infinitely beyond them, only when we know that our wills are related to a Will that encompasses and surpasses the whole of the cosmos, are we ready to live.
Matthew brings his Gospel to completion with Jesus’ Great Commission: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. . . . And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” We must come to terms with the fact that our lives are not about us.
There is Another who will tie us up and take us where we never imagined we could or would go; there is a Power that is operative in us and accompanies us whether we know it or not and that will accomplish what we, by our own power, could never accomplish.
--Bishop Robert Barron
Image source: Frank Salisbury, Ascension, The Victoria & Albert Museum, originally created for Richmond College, Surrey (1932), https://www.facebook.com/groups/303462353173920/posts/2891612621025534/
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