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The Glorious Mysteries
The Ascension
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These meditations are taken from "The City of God", by Venerable Mary of Agreda (Spain)
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While the Lord was at table with the eleven Apostles, other
disciples and pious women gathered at the Cenacle to the number
of 120. For He wished them to be present at His Ascension.
He said to them `My sweetest children,I am about to ascend to
My Father, from whose bosom I descended in order to rescue and
save men.'
In considering the loving exhortations of their
Divine Master and the prospect of His leaving them, the whole
congregation was moved to their inmost hearts. They longed to
detain Him, although they could not, because they saw it was
not befitting; words of parting rose to their lips, but they
could not bring themselves to utter them; each one felt sentiments
of sorrow arising amid feelings both of joy and yet also of pious
regret.
He was to ascend because He had fulfilled all that had been
written and prophesied concerning His coming into the world.
In order to celebrate this festive and mysterious day, Christ, Our
Lord, selected as witnesses the 120 to whom He had spoken in
the Cenacle.
Arriving at the highest point on Mount Olivet, His
countenance beaming forth Peace and Majesty, He joined His hands
and began to raise Himself from the earth to His heavenly throne.