The Church is deliberate because it wants to stress that Easter is one great feast ... the iconography of the Ascension, see here.) Keywords: ascension scriptures & art John Grondelski John ...

As I’m writing this on May 9, our Roman Catholic and (some) Protestant cousins are celebrating the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. As you’re reading it in early June, my fellow Orthodox ...

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

The Feast of the Ascension is the fortieth day after Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Ascension of Christ into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2.

In the Acts of the Apostles, the second volume of his Gospel, Luke begins where he left off, narrating the departure and presence of the risen Lord ... us that the feast of the Ascension is ...

However, situated between the two, celebrated roughly the week before Pentecost there is the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. At Easter we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord; and through it ...

On the feast of the Ascension of our Lord we celebrate the fulfillment of the prophecy of King David, which is used as the Prokimenon of the day. What does it mean for Orthodox Christians? It is not ...

In the Acts of the Apostles, the second volume of his Gospel, Luke begins where he left off, narrating the departure and presence of the risen Lord ... us that the feast of the Ascension is ...

The Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ commemorates the Catholic belief of the bodily Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ ... Ascension into heaven. The feast of the Ascension has been ...

St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main St., Baton Rouge, will celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord with Holy Masses at 4 ...

Keywords: ascension scriptures & art John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.