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"It is highly regrettable that the majority of the faithful pay so little heed to the Ascension of the Lord. Their lack of appreciation of it is closely connected with their lack of appreciation of the mystery of the liturgy." -- Jean Corbon, "The Wellspring of Worship"
"The Ascension is a decisive turning point.... It marks the beginning of an entirely new relationship of faith and of a new time: the liturgy of the last times."
"The Lord has not gone away to rest from his redemptive toil; his 'work' continues, but now at the Father's side...."
"The Lord has not gone away to rest from his redemptive toil; his 'work' continues, but now at the Father's side...."
"Jesus died and rose 'once and for all', and that event now lives on through all of history and sustains it.... He does not cease to manifest and carry out the liturgy. There is but a single Passover... but its mighty energy is displayed in a continual Ascension and Pentecost."
"What then is this 'work'?... It is the fontal liturgy in which the life-giving humanity of the Incarnate Word joins with the Father to send forth the river of life; it is the heavenly liturgy... that causes the present world to pass into the glory of the Father...."
"At the heart of the liturgy, at its very source, there is the Father!... For the liturgy is the celebration of the Father's joy...: the eternal joy of the Father at the return of his beloved Son... [who] returns in the flesh, bringing the Father's adoptive sons."
"The heavenly liturgy celebrates the ongoing event of the return of the Son—and of all the others in him—to the Father’s house. It is the feast, the banquet, even the marriage, of the beloved and his bride."
"All this means that the liturgy of Christ's Ascension is the harvest feast not only of the history before the Ascension but also of ongoing history: the paschal event is constantly bearing its fruit in the history that we experience."
