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

“Witness” is a key word in the Book of Acts and is used 29 times as either a verb or a noun. A witness is somebody who tells ...

The Ascension is a wondrous event: The Lord, by his own power, ascends to heaven. In so doing, he opens a path for us, too. As Pope St. John Paul II reminded the faithful in 1979: “Jesus took ...

Amish horse and buggy on road in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in springtime. Horse and buggy are passing by a white fence with a ...

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.

The feast of the Ascension bears witness to the lasting truth of love every Easter season. In the Resurrection and Ascension, ...

The Swedish word for Ascension Day, the day Jesus is believed to have ascended to heaven, is 'Kristi himmelfärdsdag'. Here’s ...

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 ...

The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the fortieth day after Easter,&n ...

The Reverend Canon Deacon Rachel Bennett, Assistant Curate at St John the Divine, West Worthing, reflects on the Christian ...