Ascension and Presence

'Et ecce ego vobiscum sum omnibus diebus usque ad consummationem saeculi.' Marcus ait: 'Et Dominus quidem postquam locutus est, assumptus est in coelum, et sedit a dextris Dei.'  Quia enim ipse Deus et homo est, assumptus est in coelum, et sedit ab humanitate, quam de terra susceperat; manet cum sanctis in terra divinitate, qua terram pariter implet et coelum. Notandum interea quod praesens ubique divina majestas, aliter electis suis, aliter est reprobis: adest enim reprobis potentia naturae incomprehensibilis, qua omnia cognoscit novissima et antiqua, intelligit cogitationes a longe, et omnes vias singulorum praevidet. Adest electis gratia piae protectionis, qua illos specialiter per praesentam dona vel flagella, quasi filios pater erudit, atque ad possessionem futurae haeredistis erudiendo provehit. Sanctus Beda, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, Liber IV

'And behold I am with you through all the days to the consummation of the age.' 1 Mark says, 'And the Lord having said these things with taken up into heaven and he sits at the right hand of the Father.' 2 Because He is God and man, He is taken up into heaven and He is seated on account of his humanity, which he has taken up from the earth, remaining with the holy on the earth by the Divine nature which fills heaven and earth. It should be noted that while the Divine majesty is present everywhere, this is one thing to his elect and another to the reprobate. For it is present to the reprobate by a power of incomprehensible nature, by which it knows everything new and old, and it understands thoughts from afar, and it foresees the way of everyone. And it is present to the elect by grace of pious protection, by which, especially through present gifts or chastisements, as a father instructs sons, to the possession of future inheritance it raises and carries them. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Book 4 1 Mt 28.20 2 Mk 16.19