The Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ commemorates the Catholic belief of the bodily Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven. This is considered a Holy Day of obligation.

Jesus ascended back to heaven 40 days after his resurrection. We know this because Luke tells us ( Acts 1:3 ). It’s a very ...

It is Jesus who poured out the Holy Spirit at Pentecost ( Acts 2:32-33 ). It is Jesus who opens people’s hearts so they ...

You see, the Church’s Scripture helped me find my desire for Christ, and the Church’s liturgy helped me fulfill that desire. Which is, quite simply, how I came to believe in the ascension of Jesus; I ...

Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, a pivotal event in the history of our salvation.

is known as the "Feast of the Ascension," "Ascension Thursday," and "Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ." It's a commemoration of Jesus Christ's bodily ascension into heaven following His ...

And Jesus does not return to heaven in order to ... to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). The Lord links his ascension to an unleashing of special power: “Amen, amen, I say to you ...

Among the anniversaries in the Church’s calendar of holy days, the ascension of Jesus Christ probably causes modern Christians more embarrassment than joy. Coming forty days after Easter ...

Luke relates Jesus’ ascension as a way of illustrating his movement from the mortal to eternal realms. Luke considers it a distraction to linger too long on this ascension event, however.

Rooftops were alive with the sound of singing on Thursday morning in what is an Oxford Ascension Day tradition. Local choirs ...

On the solemnity of the Ascension, Christians in Jerusalem ascended to the top of the Mount of Olives, where tradition places the exact location of Jesus’ ascension into heaven. It is the only ...