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The Face of the Shape of Things to Come

5/24/2020

 
Of all the weekends to start offering public Mass again, this is one of the best, for we celebrate the Feast of Christ’s Ascension into heaven.  In this unusual and difficult time we see in Christ’s Ascension our destiny.  Through Christ, each of us - body and soul - will be brought into the very life of the Trinity.  Such is God’s purpose and this weekend’s feast is a needed reminder of that.  Our current travails need not hold us down; united with Christ and through the power of His Death and Resurrection, this order is passing away (cf. Revelation 21:4).

Christ has ascended into heaven as God and Man – with our humanity.  Now and forever more Christ is a man.  Because He has taken a human nature to Himself, He has taken a man into the Trinity.  His purpose in bringing a human nature into the Trinity was to bring us with Him into the very life of God.  By accepting the gift of the Spirit we become incorporated into Christ and are made new, a process that has begun now – with our Baptism and subsequent Christian living – and will be completed in heaven.  God’s ultimate purpose is to bring all of humanity, glorified and joined to His Son, fully into the Trinitarian life, sharing in the very relationship of Christ the Son with the Father.  

Let us then continue moving forward with the face of the ascended Christ before us; through Christ “this momentary light affliction [will produce] for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison” (2 Corinthians 4:17).

David J. Conrad

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    David J. Conrad, M.A. Theology. Our Director of Faith Formation.

    Paul Pyrkosz. Our Youth Minister & Bookkeeper.

    ​Elizabeth Dyc. Our Director of Music Ministry.

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St. Aidan Catholic Church
17500 Farmington Rd. 
Livonia, MI 48152
Phone: 734-425-5950
Fax: 734-425-3687
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Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m.


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