# @plusjames on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CO7t3hWD4fj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20818987-plusjames-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-05-16T12:00:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** James Ramos (@plusjames) — https://gondola.cc/plusjames

## Caption

I always imagined the Ascension as a window into the Discples’ own sort of swimming lessons: being thrown into the deep end after just figuring out how to float. They just witnessed the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, and then saw their Lord appear among them in daily life for 40 days: a long walk, at the well, a locked room… 
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Each of these, small affirmations of His beloved disciples. We know well that their doubts would still remain, but these Apostles would go to the ends of the earth and share the Good News. Some would never return home.
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When Jesus was lifted up into the sky into a cloud, two men asked the Apostles: “Why are you standing there looking at the sky?” 
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We might ask ourselves the same question when Christ appears to us. He might appear in signs among our family and friends at dinner, next to the stranger at the store, or even in the peace by the waterside. We know He does appear in the Eucharist at Mass and in the Sacraments. It’s in these moments we should let the memory and grace of the lessons Christ has taught us come alive and remember His peace. 
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For everysacredsunday 
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A greenhouse alley in Jerusalem. June, 2018.
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#EverySacredSunday #ESSfam #philoscatholic

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