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 | | The ascension is a cosmic gospel, a gospel to be preached in heaven and on earth and under the earth; a gospel addressed to the powers, whether benign or evil. | | | The ascensions of Enoch and of Elijah are described in the Hebrew Bible. | | | Second, the ascension is closely linked to the sufferings of the early Church and its sense of empowerment. |
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| | Ascension Feast: All About the Feast of the Ascension |
| | Ascension Feast: All About the Feast of the Ascension | | | The Ascension is an important feast of the Church that has been neglected in recent years, especially in semi-liturgical churches. | | | This ascension is for the purpose of Jesus' post-resurrection glorification. |
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | Ascension and Power Clearly the greatest theological emphasis of the New Testament regarding the ascension is that Christ now regains the glory he had with the Father before the world began, is now able to send his powerful Spirit into the world, and reigns from heaven over every authority and power in heaven and earth. | | | Ascension and Atonement Particularly for the author of Hebrews, the ascension bridges the gap between the earthly work of Jesus Christ on the cross and his heavenly ministry as high priest, offering his sacrifice on the altar before the throne of God. | | | Ascension and Love A little noticed aspect of the New Testament's theology of the ascension is the emphasis placed on Jesus' ascending for his people. |
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| | Ascension Day 2005 |
| | Ascension Day, which this year falls on May 5th, is the day when Christians commemorate and celebrate the ascension of Jesus to Heaven. | | | The nine days between Ascension Day and Pentecost are an important time of prayer for Catholics. | | | The Ascension account in scripture describes the last meeting of Jesus with his disciples. |
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| | The Easter Season |
| | Ascension Day marks not only the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but his exaltation from servanthood to Ruler and Lord as the fitting climax of Resurrection Day (Eph 1:20-22). | | | These special days and seasons are a means to shape sacred time, a structure in which to define what it means to be Christian and to call God’s people to reverent and faithful response to God. | | | From the earliest days of the church, the Easter Vigil was primarily a means of preparing new converts for baptism into the Christian Faith, which was normally done on Easter Sunday as the focal point of the entire year. |
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| | Ascension Day & WhitSunday |
| | Christians think of the Feast of the Ascension as the departure of the Son of God from earth and his ascent into heaven. | | | The act of Incarnation by the Son of God began at the conception by Mary of Jesus and came to its climax in the birth from Mary of Jesus. | | | On the last of these forty days, in his final resurrection appearance, there was a clear demonstration to the assembled disciples of where precisely Jesus was going and where he would be for the future. |
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| | ASCENSION DAY |
| | Ascension Day is a movable church holiday and is always celebrated on a Thursday, 40 days from Easter Sunday. | | | Ascension means the "final entering of Jesus' worldly nature into the glory of God". | | | These events are mentioned in the Bible at Luke's as well as in his Acts of the Apostles: "After Jesus had risen from the dead on the third day and had spoken to his disciples he was lifted up before their eyes, and as they were looking on, a cloud took him from their sight". |
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| | ITMI - Peter Hammond - The Importance of Ascension Day |
| | The International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) 9 — 16 November, is observed to remember those believers who are persecuted for their Faith. | | | By ordering our week to set apart the Lord’s Day as a special day for the family to rest and worship the Lord — we proclaim to the world that Jesus has risen from the dead and He is Lord of our lives. | | | This day commemorates the great re‑discovery of Biblical teaching and revival of freedom that followed after Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. |
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| | Ascension Day ushers in a ten-day waiting period — an “in between” time — a time to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and for the promised “power from heaven” (Luke 24:49). | | | Ascension Day is observed forty days after Easter Sunday. | | | The account of Jesus’ ascension and final instructions to the disciples is recorded in Luke 24:44-53 and Acts 1:1-11. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Feast of the Ascension |
| | The fortieth day after Easter Sunday, commemorating the Ascension of Christ into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2. | | | 300) condemning the practice of observing a feast on the fortieth day after Easter and neglecting to keep Pentecost on the fiftieth day, implies that the proper usage of the time was to commemorate the Ascension along with Pentecost. | | | In the Eastern Church this feast was known as analepsis, the taking up, and also as the episozomene, the salvation, denoting that by ascending into His glory Christ completed the work of our redemption. |
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| | Sunday after Ascension Day |
| | The disciples were encouraged by the words of their Lord, and marveled at his glorious ascension and the promise of the angels that he would return. | | | They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. | | | There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. |
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| | Ascension Day |
| | During the forty day period after His resurrection, He preached and intermingled with his apostles and disciples. | | | According to tradition, it was first celebrated in 68 A.D. however there is no written evidence of the Ascension Day feast until about 385. | | | Ascension Day commemorates the ascension of Jesus into heaven (Acts 1:6-11) following His crucifixion and resurrection. |
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| | St Cuthbert's Website : Christian Resources - Ascension Day - The 'In-Between' Time |
| | On the first Ascension Day the disciples find themselves bereft of the one who has captivated them, given their lives significance, meaning and purpose and stimulated within them a passion for the Kingdom of God. | | | At the Ascension the disciples suddenly found themselves stripped of the sustaining, reassuring visible presence of their Lord. | | | On the one hand we can pine for the good, old days when churches were full, and the Kirk was a power to be reckoned with in the land. |
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| | Christian Century: Up, up and away - Ascension Day; Acts 1:6-14 - Living by the Word - Column |
| | The steeple atop the town church and the soanner ascension altarpiece within it provided earthbound pilgrims with that extra sense of divine presence. | | | The ascension cloud confounded Jesus' first disciples as it took him from their presence. | | | Jesus' ascension into heaven was a popular image in liturgical art at the turn of the century for many churches in this plains. |
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| | Ascension Customs |
| | Since about the fourth century, Ascension Day (Ascensio Domini), a moveable feast of the Christian Church, has always been commemorated on the fortieth day after Easter (Acts 1:3). | | | Since the 5th Century, the Paschal Candle has been used in the Church from Easter Sunday to Ascension Day. | | | The Paschal Candle is lit for all Worship Services, during these 40 days, as a symbol of the Resurrection. |
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| | Sermon for Ascension Day |
| | But Christ's Ascension leaves us with the question: "Where is Jesus Now?" The Bible clearly states that Jesus ascended into heaven. | | | One day the worship committee of First United Methodist Church of Somewhere, SC was meeting. | | | It is the power that raised Jesus from the dead and will one day raise all of us who have put our faith in him. |
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| | Holy Thursday |
| | Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. | | | [1913 Webster] Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. | | | Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. |
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| | Grace Lutheran Church / Stained-Glass Windows: Ascension Day |
| | Too often, because this festival of the church year falls on a week day, it is ignored in our churches. | | | Just as Jesus was brought to this life by the miracle of the Holy Spirit at Christmas, Jesus leaves this earth by the miracle of ascension into heaven after promising you and me the same powerful Holy Spirit in our lives. | | | Perhaps the answer is found in Luke 24:50-53, where the Bible tells us how Jesus ascended (returned) to heaven in the very action of blessing His disciples. |
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| | Accordingly, dearly-beloved, throughout this time which elapsed between the Lord's Resurrection and Ascension, God's Providence had this in view, to teach and impress upon both the eyes and hearts of His own people that the Lord Jesus Christ might be acknowledged to have as truly risen, as He was truly born, suffered, and died. | | | This Faith, increased by the Lord's Ascension and established by the gift of the Holy Ghost, was not terrified by bonds, imprisonments, banishments, hunger, fire, attacks by wild beasts, refined torments of cruel persecutors. | | | Those days, therefore, dearly-beloved, which intervened between the Lord's Resurrection and Ascension did not pass by in uneventful leisure, but great mysteries were ratified in them, deep truths revealed. |
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| | City of Belgrade - City Feast - Ascension Day |
| | Historians of religion and ethnologists agree that Slava (feast), i.e. | | | The third stop, to say prayers for peace for the souls of the fallen heroes of Belgrade, is at the yard of the Ascension Church, in from of the granite cross. | | | This ancient Testamental feast symbolically represents Belgrade's upraising - ascension from ashes and indestructible hope and faith in the future. |
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| | Ascension Day 1998 |
| | Forty days after His resurrection, Jesus, in the presence of His disciples, was lifted up above the clouds to heaven, where He is now seated at the right hand of God. | | | In His ascension, Jesus was returning to heaven as a triumphant King. | | | Just before His ascension to heaven, Jesus commissioned His church to baptize and teach His Word. |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Ascension |
| | It is commemorated on Thursday, the fortieth day after Easter, and is an aecumenical feast and consequently a holy day of obligation, having a vigil and an octave. | | | The elevation of Christ into heaven through His own power on the fortieth day after His Resurrection, in the presence of His disciples (Mark 16; Luke 24; Acts 1). | | | The paschal candle is extinguished after the Gospel of the Mass. |
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| | Ascension Day |
| | Ascension Day marks the day when Jesus Christ ascended up into Heaven. | | | It was 40 days after his resurrection from the dead, which was on Easter Sunday (in | | | He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. |
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| | Seventh Sunday of Easter: Sunday after Ascension Day |
| | They (especially St. John) tend to see the Resurrection, the Ascension and the Gift of the Holy Spirit as different aspects of the same reality—the glorification of Jesus and a new dimension of the relationship of the community of faith he founded and its master. | | | The ascension of Jesus has immense importance to the Christian worldview, which in turn is vital to authentic Christian living. | | | There is a close parallel between the Ascension festival and the great feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King that concludes every Christian year in November. |
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| | Law of Life Enlightener Vol. 5 No. 1 Ascension Day Year 29A.F. |
| | During the forty day period after the Resurrection, Jesus continued to imbue his disciples with His consciousness and performed His final act of Love In the invocation of the special Outpouring of the Holy Comforter, the Lord Maha Chohan, which was effected on Whitsuntide. | | | Ascension Day Ascension Day this year (1983) comes on May 12th. | | | 5 No. 1 Ascension Day Year 29A.F. Date: 29 Sep 2000 |
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| | ASCENSION DAY LITURGY |
| | On election day this celebration of the Ascension reminds us that we all live under God whose glory is seen in the risen and ascended Christ. | | | The verse of C Day Lewis that I quoted at the beginning does, I think, gives us the first clue as to why joy is the note for today. | | | Nevertheless, Ascension Day does provide a truth that bears on Election Day, as it does on every day. |
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| | Ascension Day, BCP |
| | And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God. | | | So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?" He replied, "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. | | | n the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. |
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| | A Sermon for The Sunday After Ascension Day |
| | Therefore watch unto prayer, and above all, have fervent charity among yourselves, for to do this is to live the spiritual life of heaven here on earth. | | | And now, at his Ascension, they are still bewildered and confused, and stand gazing up into heaven. | | | "The end of all things is at hand." In Ascension and Pentecost, the end of all things, - the life of heaven, the meaning of all things - is indeed at hand. |
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| | GBOD Worship |
| | Luke’s gospel narrative of the Ascension of Jesus. | | | Worthy as mothers, saints, heroes, and doctrines may be, we gather in the name of God around the Word in song, Scripture, sermon, prayer, and sacrament. | | | See the texts online for Ascension Day at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library. |
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| | 9 I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first, |
| | This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. | | | 2 Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection: | | | 3 And to whom he gave clear and certain signs that he was living, after his death; for he was seen by them for forty days, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God: |
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| | Free Ascension Of Christ Ecards, Ascension Of Christ Greeting Cards, Ascension Of Christ Greetings, Cards, ecards, ... |
| | Ascension of Christ celebrates the ascension of Jesus into Heaven following His crucifixion and resurrection. | | | Celebrate this holy day by reaching out to your friends/ family with our warm egreetings. | | | Free Ascension Of Christ Ecards, Ascension Of Christ Greeting Cards, Ascension Of Christ Greetings, Cards, ecards, egreetings |
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| | The View From Above |
| | According to Acts 1, Jesus appeared to His disciples for forty days after His Resurrection, then He was taken up before their eyes into heaven. | | | Well, you can wonder about the mechanics of the Ascension if you will, but I for one am amazed at the spectacle of Jews worshipping a rabbi, and a rabbi accepting the honor due God. | | | So the church has historically celebrated the Ascension on the sixth Thursday after Easter, which according to the same inclusive counting that makes Sunday the third day after Good Friday, comes out to the fortieth day. |
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| | The Abbot's Homily for Ascension Day |
| | He tells us that Jesus stayed some 40 days after his Resurrection before this “being taken up.” But we also hear that His followers were still thinking that He was going to re-establish Israel as an earthly kingdom. | | | In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. | | | No matter what doubts we have, we can still begin to call on the Holy Spirit, asking for enlightenment, asking for peace and asking for faith. |
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| | Ascension Day |
| | The ascension of Jesus marks the ascension of humanity. | | | Jesus goes to the place which is rightfully his and he prepares places for all of us. |
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| | Mark Frank, Sermons, Volume Two |
| | The Psalm is one of them which the Church appoints for Ascension-day, and I see not but it may very well pass for a kind of prophecy by way of an ecstatical admiration at the sight of Christ's ascension. | | | From his ascending, some of the difficulty is abated: he has led the way, traced a path, opened a door into heaven unto all believers; so we used to sing in the Te Deum. | | | But if any man will ascend he must do his best, must be clean and pure with Christ, and through him, or he shall not ascend and rise up after him. |
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| | Tear Garden: Ascension Day |
| | The Tear Garden: To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide as "Ascension Day" (6:01) | | | The Tear Garden: For Those Who Would Walk With the Gods as "Ascension Day" (6:01) |
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| | DPS Worship Resources-- Ascension Day (Year C) |
| | Hymn of the Day: "Christ is Made the Sure Foundation"; "We Worship You, O God of Might" | | | Blessed are you, for you have given us cause for great joy through the passion, resurrection, and ascension of Christ Jesus. | | | Inspire your whole church to joyful witness to the ends of the earth. |
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| | What's to Celebrate about Ascension Day? |
| | In other words, the apostles mentioned Ascension Day so people would urgently want to apologize for everything bad they had done to Jesus. | | | Three of these books are the Acts of the Apostles, Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, and the letter to the Hebrews. | | | Forty days later, he went up through the sky into heaven. |
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| | From RW59: re: re: re: Ascension Day |
| | So here’s the question: For this year’s Ascension Day service, we’re trying to line up some people from church who would be willing to talk just a bit—say three minutes or so—about the way they serve God in their work. | | | Subject: re: re: re: re: re: Ascension Day | | | Subject: re: re: re: re: re: re: Ascension Day |
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