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The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ [1] (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday) [2] [3] commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday; [3] some Orthodox traditions have a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition. The Lutheran Churches and the Anglican Communion continue to observe the Feast of the Ascension. [10]
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday preceding Feast of the Ascension: May 18–20. Minor Rogation days; 39 days after Easter: May 21. Feast of the Ascension. Father's Day (Germany) Festa della Sensa ; Global Day of Prayer; Sheep Festival ; Seventh Sunday/49 days after Easter: May 31. Pentecost begins Whitsun
The Feast of the Epiphany to the Sunday that falls between 2 and 8 January; if 6 January falls on Sunday there is no B date, The Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord, which always falls on a Thursday, to the following Sunday; The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ to the following Sunday.
This Feast Day is celebrated annually 40 days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ, and 50 days after Easter, which for many Christians marks the conclusion of Eastertide. From this point on ...
The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran churches. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are from the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and the calendar of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and ...
In Mormonism, Translation is equivalent to Ascension. Ascension of Jesus; Feast of the Ascension (Ascension day), an annual day of feast commemorating Jesus' ascension; a public holiday in several countries; The Ascension, another title for the Old English poem Christ II; Ascension Cathedral (disambiguation)
Each day in the Catholic liturgical calendar has a rank. The five basic ranks for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, in descending order of importance, are as follows: Solemnity — the highest ranking type of feast day. It commemorates an event in the life of Jesus or Mary, or celebrates a Saint important to the whole Church or the local ...