“We don’t have to die to go to Heaven.”
May 1, 2008
Powerful reflection from Scott Hahn:
“We don’t have to die to go to heaven,” author and speaker Scott Hahn told more than 800 people packed into Ottawa’s St. Patrick’s Basilica April 12.
“All we have to do is go to Mass.”
The former Presbyterian minister, who now teaches Theology and Scripture at Franciscan University of Steubenville, shared how he slowly came to understand how the Catholics are standing in Heaven during the Eucharist and sharing in the marriage supper of the Lamb as described in the Book of Revelation.
If one really thinks about it, he’s exactly right: in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, the Catholic faithful stand in the direct presence of Christ, in all His glory. Where else could we be, then, but in Heaven itself, to witness such glory?
