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	Ascension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and commemorates the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead.
		Ascension Day is always Thursday (the fortieth day from Easter); in some churches (especially in the United States) it is commemorated on the subsequent Sunday (the Sunday before Pentecost).
		The three days before Ascension Thursday are sometimes referred to as the Rogation days (and the previous Sunday, the Fifth Sunday after Easter, as Rogation Sunday).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ascension (336 words)

	Ascension Island
		Ascension was first discovered in 1501 by Juan da Nova Castella, but the discovery apparently went unrecorded, and the island was re-discovered on Ascension Day 1503 by Alfonso d'Albuquerque.
		Ascension became strategically significant with the exile of Napoleon to St. Helena; the British were concerned that it could be used in any attempt to rescue Napoleon.
		Ascension has a population of about 1,250 (mostly Saints) and is a communications centre (BBC and Cable and Wireless) in addition to the RAF and USAF presence.
	geosciences.ou.edu /~bweaver/Ascension (545 words)

	Crosswalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ascension and Atonement Particularly for the author of Hebrews, the ascension bridges the gap between the earthly work of Jesus Christ on the cross and his heavenly ministry as high priest, offering his sacrifice on the altar before the throne of God.
		The ascension is, however, viewed in some respects as the completion of that atoning work: it was necessary for Christ to "enter heaven to appear once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself" (9:24-26).
		Ascension and Power Clearly the greatest theological emphasis of the New Testament regarding the ascension is that Christ now regains the glory he had with the Father before the world began, is now able to send his powerful Spirit into the world, and reigns from heaven over every authority and power in heaven and earth.
	bible.crosswalk.com /Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi?number=T56 (1406 words)

	Feature
		The ascensions of Enoch and of Elijah are described in the Hebrew Bible.
		The ascension is a cosmic gospel, a gospel to be preached in heaven and on earth and under the earth; a gospel addressed to the powers, whether benign or evil.
		To live in the confidence of the ascension is to inhabit a compassionate detachment which is both spiritually authentic and humanly attractive.
	copies.anglicansonline.org /churchtimes/990514/feature.htm (1727 words)

	Ascension Island : About Ascension Island - Administrator's Office
		Ascension is a rocky peak of purely volcanic origin (44 distinct craters - all "dormant", i.e.
		A former feature of Ascension was the permanently moored 70,000 tonne tanker offshore run by the Maersk Co (UK) which served as a bulk fuel facility but in December 2002 this was replaced by an on-shore Petroleum Supply Depot under MOD management.
		Ascension Island Services (which was set up in 1984) was replaced in 2000 by the Ascension Island Government and a statutory body, the Ascension Island Works and Services Agency.
	www.ascension-island.gov.ac /ascension.htm (1461 words)

	Ascension Island
		Ascension has an airstrip although there are no commercial flights to Ascension; RAF flights from Brize Norton to the Falklands stop at Ascension, and USAF flights from Patrick AFB (Florida) serve the US Base on the island.
		Ascension used to be a "closed" island but tourist access has recently become available, although there are relatively few facilities for tourists or casual visitors.
		Ascension can be briefly visited as a passenger on the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) St. Helena when it calls at the island.
	geosciences.ou.edu /~bweaver/Ascension/ai.htm (644 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Feast of the Ascension
		300) condemning the practice of observing a feast on the fortieth day after Easter and neglecting to keep Pentecost on the fiftieth day, implies that the proper usage of the time was to commemorate the Ascension along with Pentecost.
		In some churches the scene of the Ascension was vividly reproduced by elevating the figure of Christ above the altar through an opening in the roof of the church.
		In the liturgies generally the day is meant to celebrate the completion of the work of our salvation, the pledge of our glorification with Christ, and His entry into heaven with our human nature glorified.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01767b.htm (556 words)

	The Easter Season
		Ascension Day marks not only the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but his exaltation from servanthood to Ruler and Lord as the fitting climax of Resurrection Day (Eph 1:20-22).
		These special days and seasons are a means to shape sacred time, a structure in which to define what it means to be Christian and to call God’s people to reverent and faithful response to God.
		From the earliest days of the church, the Easter Vigil was primarily a means of preparing new converts for baptism into the Christian Faith, which was normally done on Easter Sunday as the focal point of the entire year.
	www.cresourcei.org /cyeaster.html (3158 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Wales \| North East Wales \| Worshippers on top of 145ft tower
		Ascension Day is one of the principal feasts of the church year and one of the holidays dedicated to Christ.
		It is said that on Ascension Day Christ rose to heaven and sat on the right side of God.
		Last year a group of Wrexham parishioners celebrated Ascension Day on the top of Hope Mountain but this is the first time they have used the church tower.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/3727909.stm (309 words)

	Ascension Feast: All About the Feast of the Ascension
		The ascension was also the "final blow" so-to-speak against Satan's power, and thus the lion (Jesus) conquering the dragon (Satan) is a symbol of the ascension.
		This ascension is for the purpose of Jesus' post-resurrection glorification.
		The ascension mentioned in Acts, and celebrated during the Feast of the Ascension, is Jesus' final appearance on earth.
	www.churchyear.net /ascension.html (1169 words)

	Ascension Day
		Ascension Day marks the last appearance of Jesus to the disciples after his resurrection at Easter.
		Ascension Day is associated across Britain with various water festivals ranging from Well Dressing in Derbyshire to the Planting of the 'Penny Hedge' or 'Horngarth' in the harbour at Whitby, Yorkshire.
		Ascension Day is also the day for Beating the Bounds, or Boundaries, of your church's parish.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/ascension.htm (597 words)

	Ascension
		Ascension is in fact a mountain peak which rises 10,000ft from the ocean floor just to the west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge
		In 1899 a submarine cable was landed at Comfortless Cove and Ascension suddenly was able to contact the outside world immediately without a delay of weeks and eventually became a crossroads for international communications, a role it continues today with satellite receivers.
		Ascension is famous for its Boatswain Birds, the Red-Billed (Phaethon aethereus) and the Yellow-Billed (Phaethon lepturus).
	users.zetnet.co.uk /johnfirth/ascension.html (938 words)

	Sunday after Ascension Day
		The disciples were encouraged by the words of their Lord, and marveled at his glorious ascension and the promise of the angels that he would return.
		There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
		They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
	www.orderofcenturions.org /documents/ascension1.html (1064 words)

	ForMinistry - vsItemDisplay
		Ascension Day is observed forty days after Easter Sunday.
		The account of Jesus’ ascension and final instructions to the disciples is recorded in Luke 24:44-53 and Acts 1:1-11.
		Ascension Day ushers in a ten-day waiting period — an “in between” time — a time to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and for the promised “power from heaven” (Luke 24:49).
	www.forministry.com /vsItemDisplay.dsp&objectID=9EC1205A-38FF-4220-B8468AA89809C222&method=display (290 words)

	Ascension Day - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ascension Day
		In the Christian calendar, the feast day commemorating Jesus' ascension into heaven.
		Ten days later is Pentecost, which marks the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Ascension+Day (115 words)

	Ascension Day & WhitSunday
		The act of Incarnation by the Son of God began at the conception by Mary of Jesus and came to its climax in the birth from Mary of Jesus.
		Christians think of the Feast of the Ascension as the departure of the Son of God from earth and his ascent into heaven.
		On the last of these forty days, in his final resurrection appearance, there was a clear demonstration to the assembled disciples of where precisely Jesus was going and where he would be for the future.
	www.episcopalian.org /pbs1928/Articles/Ascension2003.htm (494 words)

	Ascension Day 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ascension Day, which this year falls on May 5th, is the day when Christians commemorate and celebrate the ascension of Jesus to Heaven.
		It is the fortieth day after Easter Sunday, and is sometimes called Ascension Thursday because it always falls on a Thursday.
		The nine days between Ascension Day and Pentecost are an important time of prayer for Catholics.
	www.rcdhn.org.uk /events/ascension.htm (354 words)

	ITMI - Peter Hammond - The Importance of Ascension Day
		If it is not feasible to hold a service on the actual Ascension Day, at least dedicate the nearest Sunday to it to proclaiming the significance of the Ascension.
		This day commemorates the great re‑discovery of Biblical teaching and revival of freedom that followed after Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517.
		The International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) 9 — 16 November, is observed to remember those believers who are persecuted for their Faith.
	www.intouchmission.org /reports/archives/000162.html (1830 words)

	ASCENSION DAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ascension Day is a movable church holiday and is always celebrated on a Thursday, 40 days from Easter Sunday.
		These events are mentioned in the Bible at Luke's as well as in his Acts of the Apostles: "After Jesus had risen from the dead on the third day and had spoken to his disciples he was lifted up before their eyes, and as they were looking on, a cloud took him from their sight".
		Ascension means the "final entering of Jesus' worldly nature into the glory of God".
	www.kidsweb.at /kw_juni/juni2000/chrhfahrt_E.htm (190 words)

	Worship, Doctrine and Artistic Matters - The Church of Scotland online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ascension Day commemorates the ascension of Jesus into heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead (Acts 1:1 to 1:11).
		Ascension refers to a supernatural disappearance, bypassing the normal human process of death, into heaven.
		Ascension is traditionally a Thursday but in some churches it is commemorated on the subsequent Sunday, the last Sunday before Pentecost.
	www.churchofscotland.org.uk /boards/worship/worshipcfascension.htm (109 words)

	St Cuthbert's Website : Christian Resources - Ascension Day - The 'In-Between' Time
		On the first Ascension Day the disciples find themselves bereft of the one who has captivated them, given their lives significance, meaning and purpose and stimulated within them a passion for the Kingdom of God.
		All of a sudden, all those things that were of paramount importance, that gave your life significance, meaning and purpose, are stripped away and you don't, as yet, have a new job to enable you to recover your human dignity and self-respect.
		On the one hand we can pine for the good, old days when churches were full, and the Kirk was a power to be reckoned with in the land.
	www.st-cuthberts.net /crsmn05.htm (1216 words)

	Sermon for Ascension Day
		Jesus' resurrection and ascension are examples and illustrations of this hope Paul is describing.
		He is in heaven sitting on a throne and he awaits the day when he will claim and rule over what is rightfully his.
		One day the worship committee of First United Methodist Church of Somewhere, SC was meeting.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1506/ascension.htm (3599 words)

	Grace Lutheran Church / Stained-Glass Windows: Ascension Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ascension Day is one of the signals that the Easter season is coming to an end.
		Too often, because this festival of the church year falls on a week day, it is ignored in our churches.
		Ascension Day, however, remembers the last day on earth of our Savior.
	www.butler-bremer.com /web/hmschult/ascensionday.HTM (209 words)

	Ascension Day
		Ascension Day commemorates the ascension of Jesus into heaven (Acts 1:6-11) following His crucifixion and resurrection.
		During the forty day period after His resurrection, He preached and intermingled with his apostles and disciples.
		It is one of the six holy days of obligation wherein mass must be attended.
	www.holidayorigins.com /html/ascension_day.html (129 words)

	Ascension Customs
		Since about the fourth century, Ascension Day (Ascensio Domini), a moveable feast of the Christian Church, has always been commemorated on the fortieth day after Easter (Acts 1:3).
		On Ascension Sunday and Ascension Day, at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, the gold metallic threaded ancient ecclesiastical roses on ivory material paraments are in use on the altar and for the communion ware.
		The Ascension Festival Pastor's Chasuble is made of Irish linen and is from Ireland.
	www.historictrinity.org /ascension.html (493 words)

	Customs & Traditions in Switzerland: Auffahrtsumritt (Riding the Borders on Ascension Day) in Beromünster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Beromünster, the priest of St. Stefan is recorded as having rode the parish border with the Holy Sacraments as early as 1500.
		Documents from the year 1509 tell of a procession of the Sacraments in Beromünster on Ascension Day, with prayers to bless fields and crops.
		As with the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Ascension Day procession attracts singers, trumpeters, cross bearers and lantern carriers.
	www.swissworld.org /dvd_rom/eng/customs_2003/content/spring/auffahrt.html (311 words)

	Law of Life Enlightener Vol. 5 No. 1 Ascension Day Year 29A.F.
		During the forty day period after the Resurrection, Jesus continued to imbue his disciples with His consciousness and performed His final act of Love In the invocation of the special Outpouring of the Holy Comforter, the Lord Maha Chohan, which was effected on Whitsuntide.
		It is evident though out the story as chronicled In the New Testament, that Jesus chose to complete His Mission, in order that the disciples would turn from the tendency to lean upon His Powers and develop the latent powers within their own life- streams.
		Now, some when they are presented with these facts and that the Ascension cannot be forced and it takes more than belief, they may tend to get discouraged and not want to make the effort.
	lawoflife.com /EN6b.htm (712 words)

	Ascension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Those days, therefore, dearly-beloved, which intervened between the Lord's Resurrection and Ascension did not pass by in uneventful leisure, but great mysteries were ratified in them, deep truths revealed.
		Accordingly, dearly-beloved, throughout this time which elapsed between the Lord's Resurrection and Ascension, God's Providence had this in view, to teach and impress upon both the eyes and hearts of His own people that the Lord Jesus Christ might be acknowledged to have as truly risen, as He was truly born, suffered, and died.
		Since then Christ's Ascension is our uplifting, and the hope of the Body is raised, whither the glory of the Head has gone before, let us exult, dearly-beloved, with worthy joy and delight in the loyal paying of thanks.
	www.kensmen.com /catholic/customseastertide6.html (1552 words)

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