Religion of Thursday, 16 June 2011. Source: kwaku ba 2011-06-16 Did Jesus Really Ascend into Heaven ?

The Ascension stands in direct relation to that Last Day: “This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:11 ...

The Ascension is a wondrous event: The Lord, by his own power, ascends to heaven. In so doing, he opens a path for us, too. As Pope St. John Paul II reminded the faithful in 1979 : “Jesus took ...

DEAR N.G.: The Bible clearly states that after His resurrection Jesus repeatedly appeared to His disciples over a period of 40 days, and then miraculously ascended into the presence of God.

Then, 40 days after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven. May 27 was the 40th day after Easter and many churches observed His ascension while others will wait to do so this Sunday.

Yet as soon as Jesus ascended into heaven, they were filled with gladness. Luke 24:52-53 says that after the Ascension, “They worshipped him and then returned to Jerusalem filled with great joy.

Jesus’ return to heaven was not an awkward stage exit but the climax of our redemption story. For a long time, I never really understood the Ascension. To me, the disciples’ question in Acts 1 ...

In fact, Jesus’s Ascension into heaven concluded his work on earth “about our redemption that he began on Good Friday” (Catechism of the Catholic Church no 662.).

After Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, did he “Descend into Hell,” as millions of Christians recite during weekly church services in The Apostles’ Creed? Nearly 2,000 years of Christian ...

Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He made sure His faithful followers were reminded of what was waiting for them when they ended their earthly sojourns and joined Jesus in His celestial kingdom: ...