HOLY DAY MASSES

The Ascension is meaningful to Christians as it signifies the end of Jesus' work on Earth and allowed him to prepare a place for his followers in heaven.

On this day, the faithful celebrate Christ's bodily ascension into Heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection. Jesus and his disciples went to Mount Olivet (Mount of Olives), near Jerusalem.  Jesus gave the Apostles and disciples his final instructions (Acts 1:6-8), and promised to be with them and us until the end of time: “I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Matthew 28:20). Then, in a traditional Jewish form of blessing, he raised his hands (Luke 24:50), and continued to bless them as he ascended into the heavens by his own power, until a cloud received Him from their sight (Luke 24:50-51).