The Enchiridion 53
53 Christ’s Cross and Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Sitting Down at the Right Hand of God, are Images of the Christian Life PL 40, 257
All the events, then, of Christ’s crucifixion, of His burial, of His resurrection the third day, of His ascension into heaven, of His sitting down at the right hand of the Father, were so ordered, that the life which the Christian leads here might be modelled upon them, not merely in a mystical sense, but in reality. For in reference to His crucifixion it is said: “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.” And in reference to His burial: “We are buried with Him by baptism into death.” In reference to His resurrection: “That, like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” And in reference to His ascension into heaven and sitting down at the right hand of the Father: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
Crux Christi, sepultura, resurrectio, etc., figura vitae christianae. Quidquid igitur gestum est in cruce Christi, in sepultura, in resurrectione tertio die, in ascensione in coelum, in sede ad dexteram Patris; ita gestum est, ut his rebus non mystice tantum dictis, sed etiam gestis configuraretur vita christiana quae hic geritur. Nam propter ejus crucem dictum est: Qui autem Jesu Christi sunt, carnem suam crucifixerunt cum passionibus et concupiscentiis . Propter sepulturam: Consepulti sumus Christo per Baptismum in mortem. Propter resurrectionem: Ut quemadmodum Christus resurrexit a mortuis per gloriam Patris, ita et nos in novitate vitae ambulemus. Propter ascensionem in coelum sedemque ad dexteram Patris: Si autem resurrexistis cum Christo, quae sursum sunt quaerite, ubi Christus est ad dexteram Dei sedens; quae sursum sunt sapite, non quae super terram: mortui enim estis, et vita vestra abscondita est cum Christo in Deo.