But God did not allow his Holy One to see corruption, and on Easter Day the Body of Christ was changed and raised to a supernatural level of existence, and once again became part of himself, this time for all eternity.  And on Ascension Day he returned with it, now glorified, to that heavenly life which he had left all those years before when he became Man.

His Body in Heaven now is the same as was laid in the manger and nailed upon the Cross, but now transformed and raised to a state of supernatural glory above the physical conditions of distance and of space.  So Our Lord is close at hand because he shares with his Father that spiritual life of God which is the ever-present background of our earthly life.  That is why he could assure his Apostles, “…I am with you always; yes, to the end of time”, so that, as he put it, “…where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them” (Jerusalem Bible, Matthew 28:20; 18:20).