Ascension Sunday

"So when they had come together, they asked him 'Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?'  He replied, 'It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own Authority.  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'  When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight."

Acts 1:6-9

And when the Son returned to the Father, the Father greeted Him with open arms and asked "My Son, so good to see you!  What have you been up to down there?"  And the Son replied, "Father, I have taught a group of my closest friends to take care of your children, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, teach the ignorant - and I have arranged for our Love the Paraclete to go to them, to guide them.  They are to continue all that I have started from now until I return."  And the Father said "Why Son, that's wonderful!  But what's your back-up plan?  What if they don't do it?"

And the Son replied to the Father "There is no backup plan.  If they don't do it, it won't get done."

Christ has no body now but mine,
No hands, no feet on earth but mine,
Mine are the eyes with which he must look with
Compassion on the world,
Mine are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Mine are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

-Adapted from St. Theresa of Avila

And if we don't do it, it won't get done.