The Ascension of Christ is followed 10 days later by the feast of Pentecost. It was Christ’s Ascension that made Pentecost possible: “It is better for you that I go .

In his ascension, the Spirit uses distance to reveal Christ to the church. She can only see her Lord through the grace of distance. Awaiting her consummation, she needs all her members and all her ...

COMMENTARY: The Ascension is crucial in the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis of our time, which is the crisis in the ...

The apostles look upward in a state of joyous confusion; Theotokas Mary, Christ’s mother, gazes serenely ahead with the angels, given knowledge that her son’s Ascension completes the Holy Trinity.

It is not co-opting Judaism to note that our belief in the ascension of Christ validates what Buber said about God’s fidelity to the Jews. The Second Vatican Council would later say as much in ...

‘In the ascension of Jesus, the Crucified and Risen One, ... Christ is alive,” the Pope said during his May 8 Regina Caeli address to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Today, 40 days after Easter, is known as the "Feast of the Ascension," "Ascension Thursday," and "Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ." It's a commemoration of Jesus Christ's bodily ...

The ascension of Jesus incites a longing for Christ’s return—to be drawn to his side again, reunited with his love. Here at the end of Luke’s Gospel, before he leaves his friends, Jesus reminds them ...

On Thursday, hundreds will gather at St. Ann’s Basilica in Scranton to celebrate the second century of the Solemn Novena of ...

The body of Christ is not somehow beyond our telescopes but is here, gathered on a Thursday, constituting “the body of Christ,” who share together the bread that we call “the body of Christ.” ...