The New Math

An athiest had a son who got terrible grades in math. No one in the public schools could help the boy, so in desperation, the athiest enrolled his son in the Catholic school.

On the first day, the boy came home from school and spent three hours in his room studying math. The boy was even studying math at the breakfast table, so the athiest asked his son, "What made you study so much? Is it the small class size or the personal attention you are getting?"

The boy replied, "When I saw that guy nailed to a plus sign on the wall, I knew these people mean business!"

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"And I, when I am lifed up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." The lifting up of Jesus on the cross signifies and announces his lifting up by his Ascension into heaven, and indeed begins it. Jesus Christ, the one priest of the new and eternal Covenant, "entered, not into a sanctuary made by human hands...but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf." There Christ permanently exercises his priesthood, for he "always lives to make intercession" for "those who draw near to God through him." As "high priest of the good things to come" he is the center and the principal actor of the liturgy that honors the Father in heaven. (Catholic Catechism Par. 662)