Feast of the Ascension

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The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the fortieth day after the feast of the Resurrection, always on a Thursday. In this feast we recall Him Who raises and lifts us up to sit with Him in heaven (Ephesians. 2:6).

For after having gone down hence into Hades, and come up again to us, He ascended again from us into heaven, His Father addressing Him, and saying, “Sit on My right hand, until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Fourth Catechetical Lecture, §§13-14, NPNF s. 2, v. 7

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