The Ascension of the Lord
Feast · lord
- Pascha + 39 (Roman Catholic Church)
- Pascha + 39 (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Pascha + 39 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
The fortieth day of Pascha, always a Thursday. Several Latin provinces now transfer it to the following Sunday; the East never has.
After The Typikon, ch. 50, the Pentecostarion — the Ascension, «Въ четверто́къ ѕ҃-ѧ седми́цы по па́сцѣ, пра́зднꙋемъ вознесе́нїе гдⷭ҇а бг҃а и҆ сп҃са на́шегѡ і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та̀», p. 983.
Commemorating
- Jesus commemorates
- Ascension of Jesus commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 50, the Pentecostarion — the Ascension, «Въ четверто́къ ѕ҃-ѧ седми́цы по па́сцѣ, пра́зднꙋемъ вознесе́нїе гдⷭ҇а бг҃а», p. 983; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, pp. 34-35, The Twelve Feasts
- Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after The Coptic Synaxarium; the rank, after Kalendarium manuale utriusque ecclesiae orientalis et occidentalis (vol. II), II p. 693, «Festivitates majores numerantur septem» — Annuntiationis, Nativitatis, Baptismi, Olivarum, Resurrectionis, Ascensionis, Pentecostes
Glosses
- The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…