He was talking about the staggeringly better news that heaven is coming to us, in fact is coming to us today. The Church teaches that at every Mass heaven touches earth, that the Risen and Glorified Jesus is present to us and places His life in our hands. And because it is His life in us, His life in us today, then we are no longer “poor in spirit.”

That’s why the Incarnation, the Resurrection, and the Ascension of Jesus are so vitally important. They allow us to have true communion with God because God Himself took on our flesh, and united himself to every one of our human experiences – from conception, to birth, to life, to suffering and death – and then He took that same human flesh to heaven, assuring us, with the only kind of authority we can truly believe, we have a place there with Him. Someone as human as we are