Ascending?

In the readings assigned for the feast of the Ascension this year only the first one from the very beginning of Luke's Acts of the Apostles describes the event in the familiar way.  "Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was taken up into heaven." 
The first reading from the Letter to the Ephesians 1:17-24 says that  God raised Christ and seated him in heaven at God's right hand. Both Ephesians and John's Gospel help us to think about the resurrection and ascension of Jesus as the same event.  God raises Jesus from the dead into heaven.
The very end of Matthew's Gospel is assigned for this year's celebration of Ascension.  There is no mention of ascending.  Jesus promises the disciples, "I will be with you always, until the end of time. The heaven into which Jesus rises is woven into and through our world.  He loved these men and women too much to leave them forever.  He loves us too much to leave us forever. Love enables the Risen Christ to be both in the other world and in this world, transforming everyone and everything.