God's Eternal Plan in Christ - Advent To Pentecost - Fr. Michael Flowers 5.21.23

John 17:1-11; Acts 1:1-14 - Year A - 7th Sunday of Easter. This talk encourages us to look at God's eternal plan of redemption in Christ as a whole, from the anticipation of Advent blooming into Christmas, the Feast of the Incarnation; from Good Friday necessitating Easter, and the Ascension anticipating Pentecost, the final act of redemption until the return of Christ, the Grand Finale. These feasts are not to be understood as individual events but one dependent on the next to accomplish the whole plan of redemption from conception to the return of the glorified God/man, King Jesus. Though Easter is the feast of feasts, it is not isolated from the Ascension pointing to Pentecost. Alas, Pentecost points to the Grand Finale, the final return of Christ to inaugurate on earth His New Creation Kingdom. Come, Lord Jesus!