The Ascension
Spiritual Fruit: Hope & Desire for Heaven
"As they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight... "This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.""
Contemplation on The Ascension
Forty days after His Resurrection, Jesus ascends bodily into heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father.
As we recite the ten Hail Marys of this decade, we fix our interior gaze upon this mystery of Christ's life. We ask for the grace to embody its spiritual fruit, Hope & Desire for Heaven, in our daily lives.
Sealing the Decade with the Glory Be
At the close of the ten Hail Marys for this decade, we stand in spirit with the Blessed Mother and offer all our contemplation back to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with the Glory Be (Gloria Patri), acknowledging that all holiness flows from and returns to the Blessed Trinity.
Canonical English doxology prayer text used in liturgical and private devotion across the United States.
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