Reflection for June 5

Jesus' Ascension
So that he might fill the universe the Christ was emptied to the last drop of self. But in his ascended glory he remains man. Dare we believe that? If the incarnation did something to God, ascension did something to matter.... The ascension of Christ promises the transfiguration of matter, its divinization, as the Orthodox Churches have never ceased to teach. The physical will glow with God like metal enveloped and permeated by fire (“There is a Man in Heaven” in The Incarnate God by John V. Taylor, quoted at episcopal cafe).