If we are attentive to Scripture we should be able to recall the Apostles’ reaction to their witnesses to the Resurrection:  let’s see….. went back to the Upper Room and hid, .. hmm…. they went fishing in their old haunts of Galilee … what else? … then went back to the Upper Room … then went out to witness the Ascension … and went back to the Upper Room.  At first glance it seems as though there is a lot of lollygagging going on. I mean what happened to “ Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,  teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”?  Not a whole lot of going, disciple making, baptizing or teaching going on.  What’s up with that?

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