It's understandable: Some of the disciples started to love Jesus quite well.
His death was a loss - painfull! And later: some Christians started to wish
to have him as a Healer under them. For all these nostalgic Christians is this
feast an call-up: to let him go! As everyone who is born into this world so Jesus
had his time and his environment and his people - and now it's over!
Sorry, we do not have him - he is not our friend, not our commrade - he has gone!
Worse: he didn't invite us, to keep contact with him after his ascension,
no invitation to phone him or sms him to heaven - his survival-advice:
"love one another"!
The Church must pay attention: not to keep Jesus back. What we may do is
to come together (in his name) and to listen to his message - and then it's up to us
to do his redeeming-work here and now. Don't invite him, to do here and now his work; accept that he has alredy done his work - his time is over! It's now our privilege to shape the time and to heal the situation.
That's why we give the "Body of Christ" into our hands; the "Bread of Life" is
consumed into our body. The Church must accept: people of today are now here
(also in the Eucharist) and Jesus has gone!
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