He is here! He is calling you!

We go to heaven—not only when we die, or when we go to Rome, or when we make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We go to heaven when we go to Mass. This is not merely a symbol, not a metaphor, not a parable, not a figure of speech. It is real. St. Athanasius wrote, “My beloved brethren, it is not a temporal feast that we come to, but an eternal, heavenly feast. We do not display it in shadows; we approach it in reality.” Heaven on earth—the reality!