the Ascension
noun
: the Christian holiday that celebrates Jesus Christ's journey to heaven after his death
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There’s our Talmudic reading of the alternate-side calendar, with its we-are-the-world assemblage of holidays: to celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension, Eid al-Adha, and Tisha B’Av, a day of fasting that commemorates various Jewish disasters, nobody has to move their car.
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Sponsored by Ecumenical Ministerium Group, the annual Good Friday Ecumenical Cross Walk on East Main Street in Westminster began at Grace Lutheran Church, pausing for prayers and hymns along the way, and ended at the Church of the Ascension.
—Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
Nicholas Mueller, presiding priest of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension.
—Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
Consider the number of images of Crucifixion (Jesus dying) in Italian churches as opposed to those of the ascension (Christ rising).
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
To reach the ascension point of the number one APR in this conference for two years consecutively is the result of a determined resilience to be comprehensively excellent.
—Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2023
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of King Charles III to the throne, royal titles have been shuffled and changed amongst many members of the British royal family—which has understandably confused some in regards to who bows and curtsies to whom.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2023
But ever since the ascension of King Vajiralongkorn in 2016, there’s been growing disquiet over the extent of this privileged position.
—Jintamas Saksornchai, ajc, 28 June 2023
The nineties are enshrined in cultural memory as the successor decade to the sixties, a period that fostered the ascension of the young, brash, and independent: Haynes, Tarantino, Coppola, Anderson, and Van Sant, another friend of Reichardt’s.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Sponsored by Ecumenical Ministerium Group, the annual Good Friday Ecumenical Cross Walk on East Main Street in Westminster began at Grace Lutheran Church, pausing for prayers and hymns along the way, and ended at the Church of the Ascension.
—Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
Nicholas Mueller, presiding priest of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension.
—Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
Consider the number of images of Crucifixion (Jesus dying) in Italian churches as opposed to those of the ascension (Christ rising).
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
To reach the ascension point of the number one APR in this conference for two years consecutively is the result of a determined resilience to be comprehensively excellent.
—Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2023
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of King Charles III to the throne, royal titles have been shuffled and changed amongst many members of the British royal family—which has understandably confused some in regards to who bows and curtsies to whom.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2023
But ever since the ascension of King Vajiralongkorn in 2016, there’s been growing disquiet over the extent of this privileged position.
—Jintamas Saksornchai, ajc, 28 June 2023
The nineties are enshrined in cultural memory as the successor decade to the sixties, a period that fostered the ascension of the young, brash, and independent: Haynes, Tarantino, Coppola, Anderson, and Van Sant, another friend of Reichardt’s.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
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