Happy Easter
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Ascension of the Lord (Seventh Sunday of Easter)
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Two angels appeared and said to the disciples: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
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The Ascension is the event recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of Luke, in which Jesus – forty days after his Resurrection – led his disciples to the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem, blessed them, and was taken up into heaven before their eyes. (The forty days echo the time Jesus spent with His disciples after the Resurrection – teaching, appearing to them, and preparing them for the coming of the Holy Spirit.) The Ascension marks the completion of Christ’s earthly mission. He who became flesh, suffered, died, and rose from the dead now returns to the Father – but not without us. He takes our human nature with him into the heart of the Trinity. The feast reminds believers that Jesus intercedes for humanity and that heaven is our ultimate home.