A similar lull occurred after the Ascension, but this time the Apostles fully understood its significance.  Wait in the city of Jerusalem, Our Blessed Lord had told them “until you have been clothed with power from on high”.  “…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (NRSV, Luke 24:49; Acts 1:8).

So for 10 days they waited quietly in prayer with Our Lady and the rest of the disciples.  The only event recorded during that time was the choice of St Matthias to take the place in the Apostolic band which Judas Iscariot had once occupied.  No suspicion reached the outside world of what was in store for it, as Our Lord unobtrusively completed his preparations for his very own counter-attack against evil which he was about to unleash by means of his Catholic and Apostolic Church.