FOUNTAIN — As a child, Loren Finseth said he still remembers gazing at the towering painting of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven that graced Root Prairie Lutheran Church’s altar.

His work enhanced a painting that had. Church leaders on Sunday rededicated a newly repainted mural depicting Jesus Christ’s ascension at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Apollo.

For the first time in years, parishioners can see the blues in the painting of Christ’s Ascension hanging over Grace Lutheran Church’s altar. And that’s no easy observation &#8212… ...

In fact, Jesus’s Ascension into heaven concluded his work on earth “about our redemption that he began on Good Friday” (Catechism of the Catholic Church no 662.).

Some twenty years after it was stolen from Saint Martin Roman Catholic Church in Siciny, Poland, an 18th-century painting, Ascension of Christ, has been returned to the country’s secretary of ...

SCRIPTURES & ART: It is only in our sacramental encounter with Jesus — in the Holy Eucharist — that our eyes are fully opened to him, not just about him. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

The Gospel of Luke’s account of that 40th day are bare, but tally with the other Gospels: Jesus reaffirms his mission was to “suffer and rise again from the dead on the third day” (26:46 ...

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling in the air, his body swallowed by clouds.

Today (Thursday, May 26) is Ascension Day, an important date in the Christian calendar which commemorates Jesus Christ’s ascent into heaven. The day is traditionally celebrated on the 40th day ...

Denver Newsroom, May 14, 2020 / 01:00 am. When Jesus rose from the dead three days after the crucifixion, he appeared for 40 days thereafter to his apostles and many of his other followers in his ...