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.

Christ’s ascension ... of the solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is an annual opportunity for us not only to focus on heaven, where the Lord Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us (Jn ...

Religious news this week is marked by the Feast of the Ascension. Assumptionist Father Arnaud Alibert, La Croix’s chief ...

It's a commemoration of Jesus Christ's bodily ascension into heaven following ... in philosophy and theology far from home at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. After his ...

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 ...

Not so Jesus' ascension. What the different accounts have in common is that Christ appeared among his disciples and missioned them to continue his work. (In the Gospel stories, Mary Magdalene is ...

The Ascension of Jesus Christ, at the Eglise Saint-André in ... Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII, in 1801. In other Catholic countries, such as Spain and Italy, bishops decided in the 1970s ...

This past weekend, we were blessed here in the archdiocese to ordain five men to the priesthood. Besides the beautiful Saturday morning Mass for priestly ordination, it was a weekend full of prayers, ...

resurrection and ascension to the Father’s right hand to intercede for us in heaven. The Eucharist is the real presence of this body of Christ, not Jesus only. The “body of Christ” refers to ...