But on Ascension Day that Body was what it had become at his Resurrection, a supernatural glorified Body fitted for a supernatural, glorified life.  And it is in that glorified life of God’s visible Presence that Our Lord ever offers himself to his Father as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of the world.  And that sinless and acceptable offering of himself, which our Crucified and Ascended Saviour makes on our behalf, enables him to bring us sinners with him to his Father. (See Note)

But in order to be thus brought by him we must become a living part of his offering and that in turn means becoming a living part of him.  And that in point of fact is what we are and have been ever since our Baptism when we were made members of Christ.  And that phrase is to be understood literally. For every baptised man, woman and child has been made part of Our Lord’s Ascended Body, part of the living personal bond that joins Heaven and earth, and human beings and God.  It is his Ascended Body which is the underlying reality of the Church, the mystical Body of Christ, “…which is the blessed company of all faithful people…” (1)

So St Paul told his flock at Corinth, “…you are the body of Christ and individually members of it” (NRSV, 1 Corinthians 12:27).