Ascension of Christ Resource Page

On this day, the Thursday of the sixth week of Pascha, we celebrate the Ascension of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Verses

Thou didst sit at the right hand of the Father, O Word,

Granting unto Thine initiates a most steadfast faith.

 

Pentecostarion Resource Page 

 

Feast of the Ascension of our Lord

 

The Ascension of the Lord: Epistle and Gospel Reading 

 

Synaxarion for the Thursday of the Ascension 

 

The Ascension of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ 

 

The Ascension of the Lord in the Flesh to Heaven (S. V. Bulgakov) 

 

History of the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord 

 

Ascension and Pentecost in Fourth Century Jerusalem According to Nun Egeria 

 

Homily on the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ (St. Gregory of Nyssa) 

 

Homily One on the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ (St. John Chrysostom) 

 

Homily Five on the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ (St. John Chrysostom) 

 

Why Didn't the Holy Spirit Come Right After the Ascension? (St. John Chrysostom) 

 

Saint Leo the Great's First Homily on the Ascension of Christ 

 

Saint Leo the Great's Second Homily on the Ascension of Christ 

 

Saint Cyril of Alexandria on the Ascension of the Lord 

 

Hymn for the Ascension of our Lord (Venerable Bede) 

 

Canon of the Ascension (St. John of Damascus) 

 

What it Means That Christ Sits at the Right Hand of the Father (St. John of Damascus) 

 

First Homily on the Ascension of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. Gregory Palamas)

 

The Meaning of Christ Eating Baked Fish and Honeycomb Before His Ascension (St. Gregory Palamas)

 

Homily on the Day of the Ascension of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Reflection on the Ascension of the Lord (St. Theophan the Recluse) 

 

Homily One on the Ascension of the Lord (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Two on the Ascension of the Lord (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

The Ascension of Christ (St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna)

 

Sermon on the Feast of the Ascension (St. Sebastian Dabovich) 

 

Homily on the Day of Christ's Ascension (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Our Ascended Lord: The Saving Swallow Who Opened the Way to the Eternal Spring (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

Participating in the Ascension of the Lord (St. Nikolai Velimirovich) 

 

Ascension, the Test of Reason (Photios Kontoglou)

And Ascended Into Heaven... (Fr. George Florovsky) 

 

Christ Ascended on a Cloud of Uncreated Glory (Fr. John Romanides)

 

What Does It Mean That Christ Ascended and Sat at the Right Hand of the Father? (Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol)

 

The Glorious Ascension of Our Lord and the Prayer of the Heart 

 

The Ascension of the Lord and the Deification of Humanity 

 

The Relationship Between the Ascension of Christ and His Second Coming 

 

The Ascension of the Lord is the Penultimate Affair of the Second Coming

 

God is Without Form and Beyond Description 

 

A Reconstruction of the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives 

 

The Miraculous Chapel of the Holy Ascension in Xanthi 

 

The Feast of the Ascension and Esphigmenou Monastery 

 

How Mount Athos Monks Greet Each Other on the Feast of the Ascension

 

Praying to Saint Ascension (A Beneficial Tale of St. Paisios the Athonite)

 

Why the Prophet Elisha is Commemorated on June 14th 

The Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia

The Holy Georgian Martyrs of Persia (+ 1616)

Holy New Martyr Pachomios

Holy New Martyr Pachomios (+ 1730)

Synaxis of Panagia Arvanitissa in Chios

Synaxis of Panagia Arvanitissa in Chios

Synaxis of Panagia Chrisopigi of Sifnos

Synaxis of Panagia Chrisopigi of Sifnos

Synaxis of the Wonderworking Icon of 

Saint Anna in Boeotia

The Miraculous Icon of Saint Anna in Boeotia