{"id":3750,"date":"2021-05-16T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T02:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T10:28:51","slug":"slavnost-nanebovstupenia-pana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/slavnost-nanebovstupenia-pana\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of The Ascension of the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his homily Fr Stephan Gerdes reflected on today&#8217;s celebration of The Ascension of the Lord:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen the Lord ascended to heaven, his disciples had to let go of Jesus again. Just 43 days ago the Lord was taken from them on Good Friday. Now, for a second time the Lord is taken away from the disciples as he returns to his father in heaven. It must have been a traumatic experience for the disciples and so they stare into the sky hoping to find the Lord there.<br \/>\nThe 2 men i white remind them that the Lord is not above the sky but in heaven which is among us here and now, in our communities and our hearts. Heaven is not a location somewhere but everywhere where God is. As Jesus said: where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name I am among them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SG1.jpg\" alt=\"SG1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SG1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SG1-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SG1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SG1-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his homily Fr Stephan Gerdes reflected on today&#8217;s celebration of The Ascension of the Lord:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slovakcommunitysydney.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}