US EditionThe Ascension Reveals Man’s Calling to Eternal, Divine Life
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Christians celebrate the Ascension of the Lord, when exactly 40 days after Easter, Jesus Christ completed his earthly life and ascended to heaven. This is one of the most important Christian holidays, which is also a public holiday in some European countries.
How can we understand the Lord’s ascension to heaven? Is it merely symbolic? Was it physical to some extent? Is Jesus traveling through space? Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Lord Jesus’ Ascension to heaven. This event forms part of the truths we believe about Our Lord Jesus Christ. When we pray the creed we say “he ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.” The account we read of the Gospel of Luke informs us tha…
To end one’s life with an ascent
Religious news this week is marked by the Feast of the Ascension. Assumptionist Father Arnaud Alibert, La Croix’s chief religion editor, imagines that while a secular world debates death, the Ascension quietly insists: humanity holds divine potential—and our deepest task may be learning how to fully live.
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