{"id":193,"date":"2010-05-13T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-05-13T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:32:09","slug":"the-ascension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-ascension\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrated the Ascension of the Lord.\u00a0 Since we are in year C, we are reading from Luke&#8217;s Gospel.\u00a0 Luke concludes his gospel with the story of Jesus taken up to the heavenly kingdom (i.e. the Ascension).\u00a0 Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/nab\/051310a.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">our first reading for today <\/a>is the first eleven verses of <em>The Acts of the Apostles<\/em> which again tells the story of Jesus&#8217; Ascension.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to realize here that Luke is also the author of <em>The Acts of the Apostles.\u00a0 <\/em>The importance of the Ascension is thus highlighted by Luke as the end of Jesus&#8217; earthly ministry in the gospel and as the beginning of the Christian Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jesus had been telling his disciples that he would be going to the Father but they didn&#8217;t really understand what this meant.\u00a0 Jesus could have simply disappeared and returned to the Father.\u00a0 Instead, Jesus chose to ascend to the Father with the disciples watching so they would understand where he was going.\u00a0 They must have finally understood because then they went off praising God with joy.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217; earthly ministry ends with the Ascension but the Christian faith lives on through the witness of his disciples.\u00a0 His disciples did not keep the story of Jesus to themselves.\u00a0 Empowered by the Holy Spirit they would receive at Pentecost, they went out to all the nations to witness to all they had seen.\u00a0 The Church has been witnessing to Jesus for 2,000 years.\u00a0 May we continue to witness to Jesus until the end of time.<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrated the Ascension of the Lord.\u00a0 Since we are in year C, we are reading from Luke&#8217;s Gospel.\u00a0 Luke concludes his gospel with the story of Jesus taken up to the heavenly kingdom (i.e. the Ascension).\u00a0 Then our first reading for today is the first eleven verses of The Acts of the Apostles &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/the-ascension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Ascension&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}