Ascension Sunday
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The Christian calendar Over the next three Sundays we will be celebrating the Christian calendar as we acknowledge Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sundays- days that are full of theological significance and rich in history and tradition.
On Ascension Sunday—Ascension Day was on Thursday, forty days after Easter—we consider the significance of the day Jesus, in front of his disciples, ascended to heaven. Humankind is taken into the presence of God, through the humanity of Christ. Ascension means that in heaven there is one, who knowing firsthand the experience of suffering and temptation, prays for us and perfects our prayers.
Ascension also anticipates Pentecost - when the Spirit of Christ was given to the fledgling believers on the day of Pentecost, an event we’ll consider next Sunday.
