Fr.
Rodney Kissinger, S.J. has been a Jesuit for over 69 years and
a priest for over 58 years. His seasoned spirituality is the fruit
of more than 60 years of making and giving the Spiritual Exercises
in all of its formats to priests, religious and laity. It is presented
not in the jargon of academia but in a language that everyone
can understand. He is neither “old breed” nor “new
breed,” he is just “half breed.” Having studied
both the old theology and the new theology he is convinced that
the continuity is so great that you cannot understand the new
until you have mastered the old.
ASCENSION
OF CHRIST
When
was the last time you heard a homily on heaven? When was the last
time you even thought of heaven, not as a dogma of the Church,
but as your home, the place from which you came and to which you
are slowly but eagerly wending your way?
It
is unfortunate that we hardly, if ever, think of heaven because
heaven is the fulfillment of our innate, insatiable desire for
happiness. It fills the basic need of everyone to have a meaning
and purpose in life. “He
who has a why to live for can endure any how.” The
thought of heaven puts things in perspective making us realize
that this life is not the ultimate value. It conquers the fear
of death by revealing that death is the door to eternal life,
and it gives us comfort at the loss of a loved one. It gives us
the peace that the world cannot give and no one can take from
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