AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE.” MT 28:16-20
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, as Jesus ascends into heaven, He makes a bold promise, “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” God gave us His only Son who we killed with our sins, He came back with love and forgiveness, then promises to stay with us always in three ways.
The most profound way is through our baptism, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing the in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”
The second way is by veiling Himself behind bread and wine so that He can fit between a priest’s two fingers (watch “The Veil Removed” https://theveilremoved.com/watch/). Jesus’ humility is a great model for us. He also stays hidden in the consecrated bread and wine so we can approach Him. How unworthy I am to have such a loving and forgiving God. He knows this and does it anyway, this is grace and true love (agape). If you are ever feeling unloved, unnoticed, or unimportant take time to get to know Christ, Son of the living God. His love and sacrifice are overwhelming.
The third way is in prayer, “Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am in your midst.” Last, Jesus is fully alive in the Scriptures, with the Spirit of Truth that He breathed on the Apostles on Pentecost, a small band of followers turns Christianity into a 1 billion people religion. No government has ever been able to stop them even if it is illegal to be Christian or if they persecute and even execute them. How does this happen? Love, God’s love is the most powerful thing in the universe, and all baptized Christians have the Holy Spirit to guide them to the Truth, the first installment of their salvation.
Today’s challenge: As a baptized person called to be holy, a saint, knowing Christ is with us always, CHOOSE to bring yourself closer to Him this summer by going to daily Mass more, praying more intentionally, spend time on Fridays comforting Him on the cross, visit Him in adoration, or read and reflect on Jesus in the Gospel beginning to end. Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YOLO
Today, we learn that Jesus ascends into Heaven after 40 days. We are so unworthy and don’t deserve such a great God for us to have. We should be thankful for what he has done for us and show our appreciation for him by going to mass. We return the favor even though it is not as great as his favor for us but the more we go to mass the more we go towards Jesus or away from him we will never leave the same. Our decisions now decide our future so make it for the better not the worse.
” Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word” This stuck out to be because everyone always occupies themselves with other objects but in the gospel, Paul is doing what we all should strive to do. We need to always remember God is the better option so when we think about doing something that we know is wrong or putting something above God, think again.
Jesus had to leave earth after his resurection, but the Holy Spirit is always here with us. God is all around us and we deeply connect with him each time we pray or receive the body and blood of Jesus
“We do not know what he means.” I think confusion is a big reason why people fall from the church, but when they try to figure it out, they try using THEIR intellect and not God’s. We need to reach out to God (or a priest) more if we don’t understand something about the church instead of just assuming its faulty.
In today’s scripture, Jesus tells His disciples that soon, He will rise into heaven and they will not see Him, then will see Him again. Jesus is telling us that we don’t see Him but soon, when we die, we will see Him.
Today Jesus ascends to heaven. Jesus leaves us but he is never truly gone.He leaves with us the gift of the Eucharist, the body and blood that he shed during the passion. He also gives us the Holy spirit to guide us into a life of love and faith. In doing these things for us he shows us that He is there and will always be there for us. We must pay attention in mass to be able to truly capture the glory of the Eucharist and show our love for him so that we may be able to live eternally with him.
Jesus tell his disciples that a little while and they will not see him but a little longer and they will see him again. Which is referencing his second coming when he finally returns to us on Earth. So we need to be prepared because the las time he was here was this day thousands of years ago and he didn’t give us a day for when he’s coming back so we must be ready at all times because when he returns your time Is up on Earth.
to drink his blood and eat of his flesh is what Jesus asked of us to be truly with him. to follow him and when we are born with original sin we need to get baptized so we are clean hearted towards God and his love can fill our hearts up
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.” This stuck out to me because Jesus is telling us to proclaim the Gospel to everyone and Catholics are not doing that as much as they used to anymore. We need to proclaim the Gospel to everyone so everyone has a chance to be saved. Jesus wants us to love Him fully and want to proclaim it but He doesn’t want to force us to. Jesus would never force us to do anything, not even love Him. He wants us to do things on our own free will.
Jesus tells us that He is always with us. Sometimes we may think that Jesus is giving up on us. We may be sad or mad that something bad happened and we want to blame Him for letting it happen. One valuable skill we need is to realize that you can’t blame everything on someone or something else. We don’t like to make ourselves feel bad. We need to be able to see our problems and not shame ourselves, but use them to get better and learn how to solve the problem. One way we can do this is by recognizing that Jesus is always with us. Whenever something goes wrong, JUST PRAY. God is there to help you and know that when you pray, you can know that it was God’s will.
Today’s gospel intrigued me, because it didn’t actually mention Jesus ascending. It very well explained what Jesus said, but it never actually explicitly told us that he was taken up to Heaven like in other Gospels. I think this is because Jesus wants to emphasize that the acts and miracles are important, and they prove who Jesus was, but His teaching was also extremely important as well. If we had just received the miracles, we would be lost, for we would only be seeking that power. With Jesus’s teachings, however, we recognize that we can do these things through God who gives us strength. We can perform miracles if we have the right intention, and if we have faith. Faith is extremely hard, because it asks us to believe in something that we cant technically prove exists. Yes, there are so many miracles, like healings and the Eucharist, that show us there is someone more, but we cant prove that our God is the true God, scientifically. We can through faith, because it is supernatural. Humans can explain natural things, like the universe, the sea, atoms, and the like, but how are we supposed to explain supernatural things, when we don’t fully know our own natural world? Think of Black Holes. No body actually knows what goes on in there, and what about dark matter? There are so many things that we can’t explain, so why should we be able to explain the person who is entirely mystery except what he revealed to us? Answer: we can’t. We don’t have to. We have to recognize that we are loved, and have faith that Jesus became like us so we could become like him: Full of happiness and perfect love!
The second one of those ways is in a way wrong it says were 2 or 3 are gathered i am there. you pray alone in your room or anywhere for that matter. If we pray well in any situation then we pray well in god.
Jesus told us to never be afraid because He is always with us. He may have ascended to Heaven to be with His Father, but He is still very present here on Earth. He has infinite love (agape) for us and He needs us to know that He is with us always and will do anything to make us feel loved.
Jesus promised to stay with us in three ways, baptism, prayer, and the Eucharist. He veiled Himself behind bread and wine to show His humility.
what stuck out to me is when Jesus says to his disciples “you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices;
you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” Because in that he is saying he will return and promising that, while the rest of the world is rejoicing his death.
“And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
This is talking about how Jesus always has and always will be with us, even when something bad happens to us and don’t believe He’s there (He is). When it says “until the end of age” it means He will be there until and even after we die, Heaven will be our resting place with Jesus and our Lord.
We will not see him right now but in a little while you will see him you will be with him soon. When we die we will be with him and we will see him and I really like how he phrased it and made us think about it and that’s how he phrases most of what he says in the Bible.
We weren’t children of God until we were Baptized. When we were Baptized, God told us that He loves us. He loved us so much that He died for us. Now, because of His death and resurrection, we are saved and can live eternally. He revealed to us in the scriptures and told the truth. Yet, we still don’t believe. Today, we must turn to Him and understand all He has done for us.
Noah,
You are really taking God’s Word to heart! I am proud of you and the transformation God is working in your life.
Thanks for the Teacher Appreciation letter, it means a lot to me.
“A little while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.”
These words stuck out to me because he is saying
If we have mortal sin on our hearts we will not see
Him but if we go to confession he will be visible once
again to us.
God is telling us that he is always with us. He is with us no matter what happens. he says ‘AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE.” To the end of age is saying that he will never leave our side.
“Today, as Jesus ascends into heaven, He makes a bold promise, “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” God gave us His only Son who we killed with our sins, He came back with love and forgiveness, then promises to stay with us always in three ways.” Today Jesus is telling me that without Him we are worthless He died for us and when we are with Him we aren’t worthless anymore. So as long as you stay beside Him and keep on living through His faith that He has something planned for you in the end. If He didn’t die for us then this world would’ve been messed up/gone , which this world is messed up already but once we die we will go to a greater place, our true home forever.
Something that I got out of this, and it might be kind of a stretch but I think it is important and that is, that God is way more smarter,wiser, and more knowing than anyone of us could every dream, when he said,”in a while you will not see me.” all of his apostle were so confused, they did not know what he meant, and that might be the way with us sometimes. God might give us a mission that at the time we get it, but later on we will, and we have to trust in Gods plan, and trust in everything he does, because even if we do not get it know, we will now later.
Today’s Gospel talks about how when we are happy and we feel like we are doing great we will leave the Lord. Then in a little while we are sad and not doing great and we will come back to Him. We need to stay with the Lord in high moments and in the low moments, because the Lord is always with us. Trust the Lord’s plan for you and not your own.
What stuck out to me was when Jesus said “A little while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.” Jesus is saying that when he goes up to heaven we will no longer see him, but when our time on earth is over we will go up to heaven and see him.
Today, we learn that Jesus ascends into Heaven after 40 days. We don’t deserve such a great God for us to have.In today’s scripture, Jesus tells His disciples that soon, He will rise into heaven and they will not see Him, then will see Him again.In the scriptures Jesus tells us that he can come back at any time.God is always their for us even when we don’t always love him back He will always love us.
Today the thing that sticks out to me the most is that Jesus was obviously telling them you won’t see me for a little then in a little bit longer you will see me. They won’t see him but they will see the glorified version of him. Then he goes even farther and says that I will see the father. He IS GOING TO BE DEAD TO SEE THE FATHER AND COME BACK. They were literally so confused they were like whispering among each other “what does he mean I don’t understand”. Going back to him saying he would see the father he says you will mourn and weep because he is dead while the rest of the world is happy because they think he isn’t the king of Jews. They will be sad about Jesus dying and then BAM! He is alive and the grief will turn to Joy. The apostles were just like what is he talking about is he crazy what does he mean. Jesus is just like yep you will mourn when I’m gone and I’ll come back.
Jesus always masks what he says. When he speaks, he phrases things so perfectly that you need to really meditate on them to understand what he’s saying. I think he does this because He doesn’t want anyone to just see it and immediately understand it. I think He wants them to really think and dive deeper into what He says.
Elyana,
I enjoy reading your reflections. I agree with what you have said in your reflection. My prayer is that you will always take time to meditate on what Jesus is saying to you.
When Jesus said that He is leaving, all the disciples were questioning it. Jesus called them out and explained that you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. This part was interesting because it’s not often when someone will tell you that your grief will become joy.
“A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me.” This is what stuck out to me. Jesus is telling us that he is coming back again. This means that we always need to be prepared. Just like we never know when we are going to die and come to judgement day. Although we can’t see him though he is always with us. We need to try our best and follow Christ.
What I got from today’s scripture is Jesus has promised he is always here. Even though he died physically he still roams the world with us in many ways. We can always be connected with him and he will accept us.
God is eternal the end of the age will never come he is always here.
I think the gospel is trying to say is that when Jesus said that he will be with us until the end of age means that he will always watch and protect us until we die and then he will always be with us and we can talk to God whenever we want to.
Today we heard in the scripture that Jesus ascended into heaven after 40 days. God has done so much for us. He sent his only son to die on the cross for our sins. Every time we sin we are hurting our relationship with God. He didn’t have to do this for us but he knew that we couldn’t be with him after we die unless he did this.
What I thought was interesting in this scripture is that, Jesus wants to be with us and stay with us. The interesting thing about that is that he doesn’t need us we need him. He decides to be with us through baptism, the Eucharist, and in prayer. He has three ways that he wants to be with us, not just one, but three. He is so dedicated to be with us he does everything he can to be with us. That is what I got out of Mr. Geortz’s scripture reflection.
God tells us he is always with us. He tells us this all the time, we should not be afraid of anything evil. God has an infinite amount of power, he is the most powerful thing in the universe, he is always with us no matter what. When we are praying God will always hear it.
When Jesus says “in a little while you will not see me and again in a little while you will see me” He is both telling the apostles about Pentecost and how He and The Holy Spirit are one in the same, and that He opened the Gates of Heaven for all of us and when we die and hopefully go to Heaven he will be there waiting with open arms ready to embrace us in his love and mercy fully once again.
When Jesus says, “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” I think it means that they will not see Jesus then but when we go to heaven or he comes to us we will see him. Jesus loves us and he wants to be with us so He died on the cross for us and opened the gates of heaven for us. We need to love Jesus back by being kind to others and kind to ourselves. We also need to be ready for when Jesus comes because we do not know when he will come.
Jesus is with us. He told his disciples all that he wanted them to do before he ascended into heaven. We are all called to be missionaries and spread the Gospel. Jesus will come again and we know this, but we choose to do our own will. We have to follow Jesus everyday of our lives or we won’t make it to heaven. Jesus told the disciples what his will is and we still have the words Jesus spoke to them. So, we can live out the Gospel and if we do, be in heaven for eternity.
“When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.” This line really shows us how important we need to make our faith. The disciples who had been with Jesus all this time, who had seen the countless Miracles He had preformed over the years. These people, the holiest of the holy, they saw Jesus, and did what they were taught to do – worship. But they still doubted. It doesn’t matter if we do everything God tells us in the Bible and give everything to him, if we don’t believe in Him.
When Jesus tells the disciples that he will be leaving them they are all wondering what he is talking about since he literally just came back to life but he tells them you will weep and mourn but you will then have eternal life with me and then he leaves.
Jesus says he will always be with us, even though he is going away. He says to the Apostles that he will send down the Holy Spirit to guide and protect them. The Holy Spirit is here with us, and always will be “even until the end of the age.”
Jesus says in this gospel that we will not see him then we will. We need to be patient till the time comes when Jesus will come down to save us and be with us.
The third way is in prayer, when we pray we are actively talking to God. Even though it may not seem like it.
“You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” For me this line kind of meant that devote Christians will suffer. While the world finds joy in the wrong things, we will search for joy in Jesus and this can lead to worldly pain but a lot of spiritual joy. Then one day, when we all go to heaven, that pain will turn into the most purest form of love and joy.
Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am in your midst.” Last, Jesus is fully alive in the Scriptures, with the Spirit of Truth that He breathed on the Apostles on Pentecost, a small band of followers turns Christianity into a 1 billion people religion.The government can stop Christianity because Christianity spreads faster than the government can keep up.
I think that Jesus is telling me that even though he isn’t here anymore I shouldn’t be sad. he knows that he is going to come back but no one else knows. He wasn’t people to believe in him with their whole heart mind soul and divinity. Jesus doesn’t want us to be sad and mourn he wants us to be happy and rejoice because we know that he is eventually coming back.
“Wherever two or three are gathered in my name”the gospel is talking about how he will know where we are even if we don’t love him he will always fined us and bring us back to the father and be with him forevermore.we must remember that he is our light and salvation!
Today’s gospel is about Jesus ascending to heaven and he says “A little while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.”. This is referring to how he will ascend to heaven and then he will have is second coming and return.
“AND BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE.” this stuck out to me because Jesus is telling us that he will be with us no matter what. No matter what decisions we make he will be with us even if we make the wrong choice.
Jesus is trying to tell us that he is with us. We are all called to be missionaries in Christ. He has 3 ways for Jesus to be with us.
1.baptism,2. Veiling Himself behind bread and wine 3. is in prayer. He always wan’st to be with us but we keep on pushing him away.
When Jesus ascended into Heaven he left the Holy Spirit to guide us. He may have left to go to Heaven but he is still here with us in spirit. We will see him when he either comes again or when we die and go to Heaven. Once we see him again we can rejoice.
In today’s gospel Jesus hints at the apostles that he will be leaving them soon. In my opinion, I think that throughout the gospels, Jesus does this a lot. In almost every gospel, there is a hidden message. In this one, the apostles are confused at what he means. They later understand. He tells them that they will weep but the world will rejoice and their grief will become joy. Earth is where we endure pain and suffering but if you believe in God through it all, your reward is heaven.
“A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” This part of the Gospel sticks out to me, because it’s repeated multiple times, and it’s Jesus telling the disciples that he is going up to Heaven, but will be back to help them in spreading the Faith. He tells them that they will despair, because they’ll think that He’s gone, but He will come back for them. He will not leave us all alone.
In today’s gospel the thing that stuck out to me is that Jesus and God, They will always be there, with you they will never leave and they will never stop loving you. God sent His only Son to us to be crucified and Jesus had to be Crucified He knew that and yet He still didn’t try to get out of it, that is how much He loves us. He gave everything He had, He literally couldn’t give any more He gave His life.
“behold I am with you, till the end of ages.” this is the most important question in our faith. do we believe that he has ascended and will judge us at our time of death. I feel like most of us Christians are too focused on whether we know that God has fixed our problems when we just have to speak to him. God gives us things when we need them. Whether it’s a bad day he turns it into a good day, if you let out of games someone involves you in that game. when are we going to be involved with the game of getting to Heaven, its our goal in life for people that know Jesus has come down to save us and died for us. Jesus is always there we just have to open the door that he has been knocking on for so long. God has called us by name and we have to know that its the lord, not other distractions on earth. God sees what we do, he knows what we are doing, he knows what emotion we have. If we believe In that God will do much greater things in our life to get to Heaven. it starts by opening the door for Christ.
In this scripture Jesus says, “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” Jesus is trying to say that right now we wont see Jesus, but when we go to heaven we will. He will be there patiently waiting for us with so much love. We also need to be prepared, We never know when we will die. If we have sin on our soul, we go to confession and be ready. Even though we cant see him, hes always there with us
I think the gospel is saying that Jesus is still here on earth, and will forever be on Earth. He will be here whenever we need him because he loves us.
“He came back with love and forgiveness, then promises to stay with us always in three ways.” It is so crazy to me that we are the ones who made Him have to suffer and He still loves us. Our fallen nature is what made Him have to get crucified. He still chooses to love us like we did nothing wrong. He forgives us for all the horrible things that we made Him go through. He also gives us three different ways to stay with Him. He is the meaning of love.
what I feel Jesus is telling us in this is that he will always be with us. Spiritual or in person we are always in his presence. No matter what happens he will never leave our side.
Jesus ascended 40 days ago. “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Jesus will always be with us until the end of time and never leave us. We should be thankful that he died for us and saved us for our sins.
I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE. Holy holy, God is with us forever in whatever we do, think, or say he is
always here with us. Jesus (in the body) left us with some help, from the holy spirit through baptism.
He is so forgiving not only does he help us in any way possible he also forgives us endlessly, Jesus died for us and came back with forgiving love. :0
We should be thankful for what he has done for us and show our appreciation for him by going to mass. We return the favor even though it is not as great as his favor for us but the more we go to mass the more we go towards Jesus or away from him we will never leave the same.
Jesus is with us, but sometimes we make it so we don’t accept Him. He goes to the Father and will return eventually and we should always remember the day that He comes back. He should prepare for His second coming and be filled with gladness and joy. It will be such a blessing when He comes back, we should rejoice for Him all the time even.
The life of one Catholic can help many others, one thing can expand, like atoms. Atoms create life and families, for those who choose it of course. we are flowers really, starts in the ground, or the womb for a while then starts to grow until it goes to a small bud, takes a few days until it blooms, having a beautiful colour and healthy leaves until maybe a few months go by it starts to wilt, making pollen then dies, then a new cycle appears with the pollen.
Jesus tells us in the Gospel about his second coming. When he is saying in a bit he will be gone but then be back a while after. This is proving to us from Jesus that he will come back. For the mean time he has sent the Holy Spirit and much more to guide us on the journey to him.
I think he’s saying that even though we cant see him here he will always be with us spiritually and we will see him once we die.
The little while in which he speaks is not a little while, at least not for us. The little while he speaks of is how long he will be gone and the little while after the first little while is when he will come again and when revelation will be fulfilled. He said it was a little while then, and it has been 2 thousand years, but everyday we get closer to the second coming, we have to be prepared for when he comes again.
A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me
DUDE! this is such a cool statement! God tells his diciples that he is fulfilling his destiny, that he is re-joining his father and that even though the apostles will be incredibly sad, because think about it, they have met the Son of God!, they will not have to mourn for long, because soon, they to will meet the father, and someday we will meet the father, and we can choose, if we love God and strive to be with him, we will have eternal life, or we can choose eternal pain, its our choice, we are not forced.
We will have ups and downs in life. No matter what we do, we’re only going to truly be happy when we give ourselves up to God. This doesn’t mean you forget who you are. It actually means that you must be true to yourself and true to God as much as you can. We can’t give ourselves up to God if we haven’t become who we want to be through God’s mercy. If our cup is empty, how are we going to be able to fill other people’s cups?
We will see Him in Heaven. Everyone knows that but do we really know that or is it just some words that go in one ear and out the other. Many people believe Jesus ascended but do really know what happened. What actually happened is He left us. He left us on Earth with sin, pain, and suffering. He left us to go to the Father. It makes us sad because we want to live in happiness where Jesus is. He was our light guiding the way on Earth for us and then He just left. He left us but then He sends a very helpful person to guild us. So be joyful that Jesus left so that when we die we can be with Him in Heaven.
Something that stuck out to me was your grief will become joy. This stuck out to me because I think that He’s trying to tell me is that yes sometimes life is painful and rough but when we get to heaven we will be filled with joy. So we should not worry because everything will be fine in the end.
We will not see him right now but in a little while you will see him you will be with him soon. When we die we will be with him and we will see him and I really like how he phrased it and made us think about it.
It is our choice to be Catholic and to believe that Jesus became fully man and divine, died on the cross for our sins, and resurrected. We have that choice because God loves us so much he gave us free will to choose to Love Him. To believe in HIM. Jesus gave us a way to follow Him so now we should look to Him and follow Him.
This is saying that Jesus is leaving us temporarily, so the Holy Spirit can come down and guide humanity for eternity as in God’s Plan
He died so that we can spend eternity with Him in joy. He didn’t have to die on the cross for us. He could have just opened the gate of heaven and implanted that God is with us in our brains. He did it to show people that you have to choose whether you want to do what is righteous but hard and live with Jesus. Or do what is easy but sinful and make it harder for ourselves to get to heaven.
God was once one of us on earth now he is up waiting for us to arrive in eternal life with him. He will be back, however we dont know if it will be in our life time but either way we will have eternal life with him
Jesus says he will always be with us, even though he is going away. He says to the Apostles that he will send down the Holy Spirit to guide and protect them. Jesus will always be with us even though he is away.
In today’s Gospel it says that Jesus said “a while u will not see me and again a little while and you will see me.” this stuck out to me because Jesus was warning His disciples that He would be leaving soon and then He would come back to save them. The disciples didn’t know what He meant by this so they brushed it off just like we do. Jesus tells us every waking moment that He will come back to save us but we don’t listen we just ignore Him.
“I am going to the Father.” Jesus died in order to save us from sin. He knew it wouldn’t be easy but he wanted to do the will of the Father. Jesus rose on the third day and taught many people about the Father and he left us so we could teach his word. At the Ascension, Jesus went up to be with the Father and he watches over and waits for us to join him.
God gives us the Holy spirit as a guide into a life of love and faith. He also has three ways that he wants to be with us, not just one, possibly even more. Jesus told his followers what his will is and we still have the words Jesus spoke to them to prove this.
the scripture showed me that Jesus is always there for us. Even when we sin he is always there and still loves and forgives us. We are called to spread his word to those who don’t know it.
Today, Jesus ascended into heaven. But He didn’t just leave us behind, He left us with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is basically just Jesus on Earth so that we don’t always feel alone and It helps us make good choices.
In this scripture reflection I was reminded that we DID kill Jesus we our sins and He came by and loved us. And this love is infinant and perfect all of the time, even when we didn’t deserve it. It shows you how much of a loving Father He truely is.
“And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
God will never leave us, he is the almighty ever living God. He will live forever, once our time comes we will be living with the almighty Father.
I think God is trying to show us that since He can rise himself up into Heaven that if we faithfully follow him we will go to Heaven enternally
Though Jesus ascended into heaven after his resurrection, he left the holy spirit as a guide for us on earth. The holy spirit tries to guide us away from confusion and sin, and into the love of God that we were meant to be in, and always will be consumed by.
In the scripture today Jesus makes the promise that hell always be their for you no matter what you do and i think its so important to remember that because people tend to forget it they feel like their alone and they have nobody and their life is worthless even though its not and they will never be alone because Jesus is always with you no matter what
In the scripture it’s saying that God has left behind our whole life ahead of us when he died. When he died he saved us all and left behind everything that we are going to need in our life. And that he left the Eucharist for us saying that he is still with us even if he actually isn’t but that’s his gift for us.
“A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.” the apostles didn’t understand that and i can tell you i don’t either. but Jesus explains that once He is ascended we won’t be able to see Him but when we make it to heaven we can be with Him. He is promising that He will always be there waiting for us to join Him. Now we have to do our part and accept God’s love and grace and do everything we can to get to haven to be with Him.
I think Jesus wants us to know e is with us. Even though he is not here physically I thinks he wants us to know that he is here. He is present.
What stuck out to me was,” you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” This stuck out to me because it remind me of how I need to try to have a positive look on life and be happy about the little things instead of letting everything bother me. It also helps me remember that all my despair and sadness will come to an end as long as I have the right mindset and let God help me through it and I will be truly joyful.
God gave us His only Son who we killed with our sins, He came back with love and forgiveness, then promises to stay with us always in three ways.
it is so hard to bleieve jesus is witth us at all times any place and anywhere with our worldly views and minds but its true us humans cant even graspe gods true love for evey single one of us!
The second one of those ways is in a way wrong it says “where 2 or 3 are gathered I’m there.” You pray alone in your room or anywhere for that matter. If we pray well in any situation then we pray well in god.
“You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” this stuck out to me because it shows that God can make any bad situation better even when it seems hopeless to try, just as long as you believe.
“How unworthy I am to have such a loving and forgiving God.” We never asked God to give us His only Son. He did it willingly for us so we don’t have to suffer. He gave us His only Son for us to put to death. He didn’t have to make the World He did it on His own. We have a God so loving so forgiving to where we just use Him. We don’t give anything in return but when we do it is for something. We need to thank God for His sacrifices and humbly submit ourselves to the Lord.
“You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” Your grief will become joy. We all have moments in our lives where we feel sorrow whether it’s a loved one passing away or losing a friend. But each and everyone of us feels that. In this Gospel Jesus is telling us that our grief will be turned to joy. We are preparing for heaven. There will be moments of suffering and pain, physical and emotional, but there is one place where we will never feel that. Heaven. Jesus wants us there, He wants us to live forever in paradise but we have to follow the commandments Jesus gave us.
In the gospel I got a different meaning out of it. Jesus says he is with us till the end of time and I sometimes feel like we get so caught up in other things we forget this. Kinda like if there wasn’t hell would we still be chasing after Jesus? Jesus is always with us no matter what we did he is still smiling at us loving us all the time and there is nothing we can do to change that.
Today is the Ascension. Jesus rises up to Heaven today, He is doing what we hope to do when we die. Jesus became man so man could become divine. Jesus always tells us that if we keep His commandments than we will have eternal life. So why do we sin, why do we always fall to our temptations? Because we fell, and we will always fall. But that is why we have confession. So that we can become one with Christ again. The more we receive the Eucharist the more we go to confession, we can rise just like Jesus rose. To Heaven and from the dead.
Jesus sent the holy spirit to guide us even when we are not here, and we should be grateful to him because he thought of us even though he was going to heaven.
Something that I got out of this, and it might be kind of a stretch but I think it is important and that is, that God is way more smarter,wiser, and more knowing than anyone of us could every dream, when he said,”in a while you will not see me.” all of his apostle were so confused, they did not know what he meant, and that might be the way with us sometimes. He didn’t have to do this for us but he knew that we couldn’t be with him after we die unless he did this.
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.” What this is saying to me is that we should go out and spread the word of God. If we don’t spread the word of God then people will choose not to believe in God and that would be back because less people would be going to Heaven.
Jesus is trying to tell us that we are not made for this world. We are made for the kingdom to come
“And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Stood out to me because God is always with us even after life. But it is also hard beleving that God is with us all the time.
Jesus will always be with us. Even right now, and after out sounds reach his eternal gates. God will never fail us, but sometimes we may fail him, he forgives us of our sins. Just as Jesus did when he took up the cross and our sins at the same exact time. God will never leave you, never in our lives and afterlife, he’ll still be with us, now and forever.
In today’s scripture reflection it was about how God is always there for us. No matter how we feel if we are sad,mad, happy, ext he is always there and always will be there for us. If we need someone to talk to we can talk to God he always wants to hear from us and always will be happy when we talk to him.
When Jesus says ” And behold I am with you always until the end of age.” Some people myself included when things get rough they tend to blame God for not being there when really he was there all along and we just aren’t asking for his help when we should be.
Ins today’s gospel the lord tells the apostles of his ascension common soon but they do not understand what him means because they are finally able to see him again and he is leaving again which confuses them. God bless the world amen
“God gave us His only Son who we killed with our sins, He came back with love and forgiveness”. This just comes to show how stubborn we are when we see a new thing, we want it out. We don’t deserve the loving forgiveness that he can back with. Arms open wide and ready to receive. There was no grudge between us and God he was just happy. He wanted us to be saints so we can live with Him forever. His love is endless and like how Jesus tried again and rose from the dead, we must also get up and keep trying to get back to the Father.
God gave us His only Son who we killed with our sins, He came back with love and forgiveness, then promises to stay with us always in three ways. This is love. God gave us his only son Jesus and for what back in return. There is just nothing more to ask for. We can’t ever repay God for this but we can serve him. God is true love
“When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.” This line really shows us how important we need to make our faith. The disciples who had been with Jesus all this time, who had seen the countless Miracles He had preformed over the years. These people, the holiest of the holy, they saw Jesus, and did what they were taught to do worship. But they still doubted.
God knows us more than we know our selfs. He says “A little while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.” While we don’t know what a little while later is he does. Like we don’t know what will happen in a week but God knows. Jesus also knew what they wanted to ask him. He knows how our minds think and work.
In today’s gospel, Jesus ascends in Heaven today. God loves us so much because he gave His only son to us, just so that we can kill him with our sins. Even though Jesus died very painfully, He was still the happiest man on Earth. He was that happy because he knew that we saved us from sin and that he saved us from Satan and all evil things on Earth. Jesus loves us very much and we should love him back.
“You will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” This stuck out to me because it’s saying even when we are in a really tough time, God will always be here and help us get through that pain. He Will turn our pain into joy, he Will turn our sadness into happiness, he wants us to be happy and if we open up to him he will help us get through the tough times. So we just have to trust that God will make everything better.
“He comes back with forgiveness and love.” This stuck out to me because God is always loving and forgiving, even when we hurt him the most. He is good! We need to be more loyal and loving and forgiving towards Him.
“He comes back with forgiveness and love.” This stuck out to me because God is always loving and forgiving, even when we hurt him the most. We need to be more loyal and loving and forgiving towards Him. He is good!
Jesus was saying not to be afraid of something God will always be with you and help you through all the hard things in life and all your fears.