{"id":26452,"date":"2011-06-02T07:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/ascension-of-the-lord\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T11:25:18","slug":"ascension-of-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/ascension-of-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascension of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Ascension%20HSuess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ascension HSuess.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/06\/Ascension HSuess-thumb-300x499-9267.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"499\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">&#8220;He in fact came<br \/>\nto the world to bring men back to God, not on the level of ideas &#8211; like a<br \/>\nphilosopher or master of wisdom &#8211; but really, as a shepherd who wants to lead<br \/>\nhis sheep back to the fold . . . It is for us that he came down from Heaven,<br \/>\nand it is for us that he ascended there after making himself like men in all<br \/>\nthings, humiliated to the point of death on the cross, and after touching the<br \/>\nabyss of the greatest separation from God&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">&#8220;And what does man need more in<br \/>\nevery age if not this: a solid anchoring for his existence? After the Ascension<br \/>\nthe first disciples remained gathered together in the Cenacle around the Mother<br \/>\nof Jesus, in fervent expectation of the gift of the Holy Spirit, promised by<br \/>\nJesus (cf. Acts 1:14)&#8230;. [this divine invitation is offered to us] &#8220;to remain<br \/>\nunited together in prayer, to invoke the gift of the Holy Spirit. In fact, only<br \/>\nto those who &#8216;are born again from above,'&#8221;, that is, of the born of the Holy<br \/>\nSpirit.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;\">Pope Benedict XVI, Ascension, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He in fact came to the world to bring men back to God, not on the level of ideas &#8211; like a philosopher or master of wisdom &#8211; but really, as a shepherd who wants to lead his sheep back to the fold . . . It is for us that he came down from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/ascension-of-the-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ascension of the Lord<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2102,2030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}