This Holy Day of obligation was today celebrated with Fr. Pawel, pupils and staff and at St Teresa’s.

The ascension of Jesus is our belief in the departure of Christ from Earth into the presence of God. The narrative in Acts 1 takes place 40 days after the resurrection. Jesus, in the company of the disciples, is taken up in their sight after warning them to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Holy Spirit; as he ascends a cloud hides him from their view, and two men in white appear to tell them that he will return “in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”