In truth, Jesus’ ascension into heaven, an event which cannot be narrated through our words which are able to tell only human facts, was neither a separation nor the conclusion of the story of Jesus’ life. As a matter of fact, if the narrations of the ascension are read with intelligence, it will be immediately clear that they don’t deal with a “farewell,” but rather with a sending of the disciples, a mission from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. The disciples, gone into the whole world, will preach the Gospel to every creature (see Mark 16:15) and first of all they will make the experience of God’s nearness, of His presence; they will be aware of being just men and women at the service of Jesus’ mission, the one sent by the Father. Christ is taken up to where the Father is so that his work could be accomplished, so that he could be an intercessor for all the men among whom and with whom he dwelt as a true man on earth for about thirty seven years.