The number 40 is a highly symbolic number. Since around 350, for more than the millennium and half, the Church has been celebrating this event on the Thursday of the sixth week of Easter, which is the 40 th day after Easter. According to the Scriptures, our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven on the 40 th day after Easter. BONA: We are all familiar with the Ascension Thursday. Emeric parishesĪgnes & Lothar Koeberer, by Koeberer FamilyįROM THE DESK OF FR.
TODAY’S MASS INTENTION: Margit & György Fábry, by Ilona Balássyįor the Parishioners of St. It was a tradition for the past 160 years.Ĭhristians in Wakefield, also in England were to gather at Sandal Castle to celebrate Ascension Day with hymns and prayers.RESPONSORIAL PSALM: God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. Stroud News and Journal online reported on the Ascension Day celebration, children from the Bisley Blue Coat Church of England Primary School, Gloucestershire, England, who dressed the village wells with flowers. The website states, “In England, Ascension Day is associated with various water festivals ranging from Well Dressing in Derbyshire to the Planting of the ‘Penny Hedge’ at Whitby, a small town in Yorkshire.” This is called gökotta- “early cuckoo morning”. According to Ascension Day in Germany is observed by Protestant men having herrepartien, ‘outings’ and is sometimes called ‘Father’s Day’, while in Sweden people may go out into the woods in the wee hours of the morning to hear birds at sunrise. He added that Jesus is present in tabernacle and in the bread and wine. “They know He has notĪbandoned them and the sending of the Spirt means He is with them in a more intense way…more present to them…the fact that the Spirit has taken over means He is really present everywhere,” Fr Cockburn said. He referred to the Gospel of Luke which states the apostles returned to Jerusalem filled with joy after the Ascension.
One of the prayers talks about ‘He is our hope and our glory’…the idea of hope, we have a good guarantee that we should go up there, too.” “There is a lovely sort of theme of hope. Moses spent 40 days on Mt Sinai before returning with the Ten Commandments Jesus spent 40 days in the desert preparing for His public ministry 40 days after Christmas is the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the temple.įr Cockburn said the prayer for the Ascension Mass speaks of where the head has gone, the body is to follow. They talk about Jesus saying farewell, ‘I am going away, I will not leave you orphaned, I will send the Holy Spirit’. Prior to this event, “He spent 40 days with the apostles giving further instruction. Fr Cockburn explained, “Normally, it would be nine days intervening between the Thursday and Pentecost Sunday, out of that originated, in a way, the concept of novenas as nine days of prayer mirroring the apostles…but once it is transferred to the Sunday, it becomes like a week.”Īscension Day is a day of obligation in England, Scotland, Wales, and parts of the United States.įr Cockburn said Ascension Day marks when Jesus completed His work on Earth. The Ascension observance on Sunday is one week before Pentecost. Fr Michael Cockburn in an interview with The Catholic News explained, “More people are at Mass on the weekend, so they transferred it to Sunday.” It’s not a public holiday in T&T.Īlthough Ascension Day falls on a Thursday, it is a moveable feast, moved to Sunday. It was a public holiday in certain European countries including Austria, Finland, and Germany as well as Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country, and Vanuatu, where Christianity (including Catholicism) is the main faith. The Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, Ascension Day was Thursday May 18 and is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter.
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