Charity registration No. SC002876   Sunday May 13th. 2012 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Main Menu Notices 2 Page 4 Page 5 Notices Thursday – Feast of the Ascension, Holy Day of Obligation Masses:-  Roy Bridge 10 a.m.        Spean Bridge 7.30 p.m. The feast of the Ascension is the completion of our Lord's  visible mission on this earth, when he returns to his Father in  heaven The wonder of this feast is that for the very first time, our  human nature, in the person of Jesus, has been taken up into  heaven. This shows us the sacredness of our body and that  we must treat it with the greatest reverence, for, on the last  day, our body too will rise again to be joined to our soul in  heaven Of all humanity, Our Lady is the only other person who has  been taken up body and soul into heaven. We honour this  doctrine on the feast of her Assumption. Mary was sinless, so  her body was not subjected to the corruption of the grave. It needs no great theologian to understand that she, who is  the mother of God incarnate, would not suffer the  humiliation of the grave.    Our Lord would want his mother to be with him in heaven.   Have you ever thought what that reunion of mother and Son  in heaven must have been like?  Here was the woman who gave him his flesh and blood, who  suckled him, loved him, cared for him, who was warned by  Simeon in the temple that, because of this child, a sword of  sorrow would pierce her heart, her exile in Egypt, and finally  taking her place at the foot of the cross on Calvary. She was devoted mother to her Son and what a reunion must  have been. For the first time Mary would have seen Jesus in  all his glory, and he would now be able to show her the  fullness of his love in return for all the love she had given  him on this earth. Jesus, with his Apostles gathered around him ascends into heaven,  after instructing them to go out and preach to all nations baptising  them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the  Holy Spirit.