Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis ‘When, by your suffering and resurrection, you had renewed the world aged by many sins, you ascended into heaven, riding on clouds. Glory to your glory’ (Ode 1, Ascension). Saint Iosif of Thessaloniki, who wrote the second canon of the great feast of the Ascension of Read more…
Fr. Gennadios Manolis, Theologian The Lord’s Ascension is the visible sign of God’s reconciliation with us, but also the glorification of our human nature. This reconciliation and our glorification were achieved through the incarnation of the Son and Word of God, His teachings, His voluntary Passion, His glorious Resurrection, Read more…
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou ‘God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.’[1] The Ascension is the last event in Christ’s earthly life. Of course, Pentecost is the fulfilment of God’s dispensation, which is why is called ‘the last feast’[2]. God the Father was Read more…
Archimandrite Pavlos Dimitrakopoulos The Lord’s ascension in glory and his being seated at the right hand of God the Father is the last act in his life and mission on earth. It’s the end of the concession he made in becoming human and of his incarnate, divine dispensation. But Read more…
Ascension For forty days after the Resurrection, the Lord Jesus was ‘being seen of His disciples’.[1] He was gladdening the hearts of His disciples with His Presence and initiating them into the mysteries of the Kingdom. Christ appeared to them and opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. At the same Read more…
Fr. Andreas Agathokleous The feast of the Ascension seems not to present any particular interest, but rather a certain sadness in our hearts that the Lord is departing from us. Nevertheless, the following points emerge from the Gospels and from our lives as Christians: 1. Each of us, in Read more…
Pleased to share with you a short videoscribe presentation by Dr. Eve Tibbs about the The Ascension of the Lord in the Orthodox Church that was created as a discussion starter for a high school Sunday school class. About: Dr. Eve (Paraskevè) Tibbs (PhD, Theology) is an Affiliate Professor of Read more…
– Archpriest Andrew Phillips In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. So we have come to the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. Thus we have come to the last day of Christ’s physical presence on Earth. This marks the fulfilment Read more…