Congregation for the Clergy on the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord

The Collect continues: "where the Head has gone before in glory, the Body is called to follow in hope". We are called to joy because our humanity is now 'elevated' in Christ beside the Father.  In fact, because of Christ's love for man He took on our flesh and so all that happens to Christ's humanity will now also affect us too.Christ recapitulates in Himself the entire cosmos and draws it to the Heavenly Father, depositing it at the foot of His 'Holy throne' (Ps 46).  This is our glorious destiny, the ultimate and positive result to which our lives are called.
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HHS Secretary Sebelius at Georgetown U: Could Scandal be the Seed of Reform?

The commencement address given by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may actually help to bring about the necessary corrective of this Catholic University which has clearly lost its way. Please pray for Georgetown University. And, while you are praying, pray for Kathleen Sebelius to return to the truths of the faith into which she was baptized. Let us pray - and let us act - in a way that ensures that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaking at Georgetown University becomes the seed of the much needed reform of that once great Catholic University and its return to the faith it claims to profess.
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