What Jesus’ ascension can teach us about coping with grief. Jaime L. Waters May 09, 2020. Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash. Today we remember Jesus’ ascension into heaven.

The Ascension stands in direct relation to that Last Day: “This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11 ...

In fact, Jesus’s Ascension into heaven concluded his work on earth “about our redemption that he began on Good Friday” (Catechism of the Catholic Church no 662.).

It's not like Jesus ascends into heaven and then he's going out past the rings of Saturn and out past Andromeda. There's some sense in which he transcends space and time.