May 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Life offers us many examples to pivot from one event to the next, the journey from A to B; and though our eyes and minds are geared to what is the goal, or promised point in the near or distant future, we often do not reflect enough on the meaning of what lies “in between” events. Yet these hidden moments are often powerful.
For example, the Church’s liturgical period of 10 days — the period between the Ascension of Our Lord to the infusion of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost — is grounded in Acts of the Apostles, chapter 1. It represents a period given to prayer, as Jesus exhorted the Apostles (Acts 1:14). But since they were now 11, with Judas betraying the Lord and committing suicide, one particular “fulfillment” needed to remediate before the “Power from on High” would come upon and give birth to the Church at Pentecost. It was a period of gestation.
Hence the 12th Apostle Matthias was chosen, not by vote but by “lot,” thus rooting their action in a trusting faith. God was to “choose” the new apostle by lot from several nominated. It was His “call.” Beyond
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