Frank Pavone\Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for LifeForty 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 glory in his human nature, and therefore made it possible for us to have it.