Ascending the Ladder of the Ascension

There would be no salvation without the Ascension of Christ our God. As our forerunner, He ascended to the Father with our humanity eternally joined to His Divinity. As He did, it would be the first time the created humanity He took to Himself would ever enter Paradise, for He was the forerunner of us all. By His Ascension, the ladder was not put in place joining heaven to earth where all mankind could now ascend out of the Fall and return to Paradise through Him. Today we rejoice in Christ's wondrous Ascension and we set our souls to follow Him up so that where He is we may also be.