05/14/2026
Today is Ascension Day. The day Jesus Christ ascended into heaven.
For forty days after His Resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples in His glorified body. He taught them, ate with them, and showed them His wounds, proving His bodily Resurrection.
On the fortieth day, He led them out to the Mount of Olives, near Bethany. He blessed them with His hands raised. As they watched, He was taken up into the sky, and a cloud received Him. The cloud, throughout Scripture, is a sign of divine glory.
Two angels appeared to the disciples and said: “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you have seen Him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11)
The Ascension was not the absence of Christ. It was His enthronement. He now reigns in glorified human flesh at the right hand of the Father, where He intercedes for His Church and prepares a place for those who belong to Him.
He will return.
