The day following is celebrated as His Leavetaking - His Glorious Ascension into Heaven. As Holy Scripture tells us, after Jesus had spoken with His disciples on the Mount of Olives, concerning the ...

Throughout human history, people across cultures have sought to flee oppression and escape persecution. A recurring theme in ...

It's a commemoration of Jesus Christ's bodily ascension into heaven following His resurrection from the dead. For Fr. Kyle Doustou, a priest of the Diocese of Portland and pastor of the ...

the Ascension is his culmination and it’s his coronation. Anchor: Why do you think it’s significant that Jesus was taken into heaven rather than dying, as all people do on Earth? Guest ...

Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen Jesus and he appeared to many more of his followers during the days before his ascension into heaven, about 40 days after Easter. 1. Entry Play some ...

This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.’ ...