\Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director,Priests for Life
Forty days after rising from the dead, Jesus Christ ascended into heaven in the sight of his disciples. Ten days later, he sent the Holy Spirit and empowered the apostles to preach repentance and new life.
Christians around the world celebrated these two events very recently, and on Ascension Sunday, the American people and their leaders rededicated the nation to God.
The convergence of these three events helps us understand our human dignity and the need to fight for it in these midterm elections.
“God so loved the world…” (Jn. 3:16). He so loved humanity, that he not only took it upon himself in the Incarnation (“he emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” – Phil. 2:7), but brought it into glory in the Ascension and filled it with his Spirit at Pentecost.
On the night before he died, Jesus prayed to the Father, “give me the glory I had with you before the world began” (Jn. 17:5). If he already had that glory, what changed after the Resurrection and Ascension?
What changed was that now he had that gloryin his human nature,and therefore made it possible forusto have it.
There is only one human nature, shared by men and women of every time and place, of every condition and circumstance, and of every social status. It is shared by born and unborn, rich and poor, healthy and sick. That one human nature is united with God and taken into glory. If the Church is to proclaim that the destiny of human beings is to be seated on the throne of God, we cannot ignore those same human beings when they are thrown in the garbage by atrocious acts like abortion, or when their dignity is assaulted in any number of other ways. Source: The Gateway Pundit
