Any mortal can die, but only God can rise from the dead and ascend into heaven.

Gospel, Jn 17:1-11a

¹ After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you;
² so that, just as you have given him power over all humanity, he may give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.
³ And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
⁴ I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.
⁵ Now, Father, glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world existed.
⁶ I have revealed your name to those whom you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
⁷ Now at last they have recognised that all you have given me comes from you
⁸ for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have indeed accepted it and know for certain that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me.

⁹ It is for them that I pray. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

¹⁰ All I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified.
¹¹ I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us.

I believe

in the Resurrection