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Ascension Sunday
4 May 2008
Father David Wood
Parish Priest
Grace Anglican Church
Joondalup
Perth, Western Australia
Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians
1:15-23; Matthew
28:16-20
Believing is seeing, and faith is
understanding. Knowing
in our bones what kind
of world this is,
discovering the secret,
unearthing the clue,
this is essential to
real life, to life lived
in depth, what we call
eternal life. If this
is so, it means faith
arises from observation,
from contemplation, it
is all about looking,
about paying close
attention, taking time
to ponder the beauty and
mystery and majesty of
the world. Yet we never
do this alone and
unaided, as if each
individual is left to
their own devices. We
stand on the shoulders
of those who go before
us, we do so within
communities of insight
and interpretation, by
entering into the
stories of faith handed
down and handed on to
us. Today, forty days
into Easter, we
Christians contemplate
the Ascension of the
crucified and raised
Lord into heaven, a far
more sophisticated story
than at first it might
seem. For here is a
story of fact and faith,
of ending and beginning,
of absence and
presence....
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