A new way of being

Paolo Angelini

All Christian Churches celebrate the liturgical solemnity of the Ascension on the fortieth day after Easter. St. John Crysostomos and St. Augustin spoke about it but we mainly owe its diffusion to St. Gregory of Nyssa. Ascension day is traditionally celebrated on a Thursday but in some countries the observance has been moved to the following Sunday to facilitate the obligation to attend Mass (29th May this year). With Jesus’ ascension to heaven his presence in history ends and the time of the Church begins On this year the liturgy invites us to meditate on a passage from the Gospel of the evangelist Luke: “And he said to them, ‘Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And (behold) I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high’...

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