<p class="title_brown">The Ascension of Jesus to heaven</p>

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We contemplate the mystery of <em>the ascension of Jesus to heaven</em>, meditating on the words from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles:</p>

<p class="quote">After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. &laquo;Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven&raquo;.<br />
[Act 1,9-11]</p>

<p class="normal_text">In front of those who chose, Jesus is elevated to heaven. The human eyes, slow by slow, stop seeing him, but a heart clarified by faith will not cease to feel him present in each man and woman who already know him and in each man and woman who, after the announcement, will come to know him. The arms raised to the sky as an expression of the amazement and of nostalgia will now be the engine of the mission. It is the hands that, after the Ascension, will now go throughout the world teaching and baptizing, making disciples fulfillers of the higher commandment which is Love.<br />
In Fatima Mary also made herself a disciple who fulfils of the mandate of Christ: she comes to our daily life and, raising up her cathedra, teaches to the multitudes &laquo;the eternal truths and the art of praying, believing and loving&raquo; [Benedict XVI, 2007-11-10].<br />
Virgin of Fatima, Lady of the Mission, intercede for us next to Christ so that we may be evangelizers of the world in which we live!</p>
