Did your priest preach on the Ascension today? Or was it business as usual?

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Did your priest preach on the Ascension today? Or was it business as usual? :hmmm:

The pupose of moving it to Sunday (from the original Thursday) is that so more people would participate in it.

There was no mention of the Ascension at all at the Mass I attended. The homily was about volunteer activities. :whistle:

A whole generation of Catholics is growing up completely oblivious to many of our feasts and solennities.
 
Our parish celebrated Ascension today and the priest spoke about it in his homily …we also celebrated First Holy Communions today … 90 plus children made their first comunion this weekend split betwee three of our five weekend masses.

I thought our priest did a very good job of connecting the Ascension and what it means for the faithful and Communion.👍
 
Hi Lepanto, 🙂
Yes our priest did speak on the Ascension. He told of a friend he had that would talk all about his dad and how great he was and such a good role model and just there for him all the time. And then one day they were traveling with a bunch of buddies together and were going to get a chance to meet his dad. Then he told them that his dad had died when he was ten. Our priest said they were all in shock but his friends dad was so real for him that the memories were still alive and his dad was still with him. And that is what Jesus said to Philip.
It’s hard to imagine anything more glorious than our risen Lord ascending bodily to heaven. What a triumphal day it was for him as he returned to sit at his Father’s right hand, having defeated sin and death once and for all!
“Lord , thank you for your marvelous plan of salvation! Because you have ascended in triumph, I can rejoice in knowing that you are with me, and that I will be with you forever!”
We are on our journey towards heaven.
Blessings
 
Very much so. The priest at the Mass I attended spoke of the Ascension at great length and his sadness that the American Bishops feel it needed to be moved to a Sunday in order to re-emphasize its importance to the universal church, He spoke of his hope that by moving it to Sunday, and re-educating people of what it means, that the day would then be able to be moved back to its rightful place in the liturgical calendar and be honored and worshiped by practicing Catholics.

I don’t think he was particularly thrilled at the change, but he spoke eloquently and obediently. (He whined a bit about not being able to be able to do a Novena to the Holy Spirit between the Solemnity of the Ascension and Pentacost Sunday – but I told him after Mass that if I could figure out how to do it (pull out the old books and start on Friday, as usual), so could he! And he grinned. 😉

I feel very blessed by the holy men who serve as priests in my parish.
 
No, our priests preached on the Ascension on Thursday. Today is the Seventh Sunday of Easter in our diocese (Scranton).
 
In the diocese of Pittsburgh we celebrated Ascension on Thursday. So, no our priest didn’t mention the Ascension today since it was preached about on the actual feast day.

ChadS
 
We got the Ascension today. I was pretty confused when the readings didn’t match Magnificat’s, but caught on eventually…
 
Lepanto said:
Did your priest preach on the Ascension today? Or was it business as usual? :hmmm:

The pupose of moving it to Sunday (from the original Thursday) is that so more people would participate in it.

There was no mention of the Ascension at all at the Mass I attended. The homily was about volunteer activities. :whistle:

A whole generation of Catholics is growing up completely oblivious to many of our feasts and solennities.
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I get the idea that it is not just THIS generation. When I talk to Catholics about the faith…most really don’t know much about it…and I’m talking to 35-60 year olds. Why is this?
Could this be why some have fallen away???
 
Oh, I’m, sorry. My/our homily WAS about the ascension and a good one at that…🙂
 
Yes, the Ascension was the subject of our priest’s homily. He even had a cool visual aid for the children.
 
Our priest preached excellently (as usual) on the Ascension–what it was, what it means for us.

I worked all day Thursday and had class in the evening, so if the feast wasn’t moved, I probably couldn’t have observed it. So I don’t mind that it was transferred to Sunday. And yes, I try my hardest to observe the H.D.'s of O.
 
We had the Ascension moved to the weekend. It was also mentioned on Thursday that it was going to be celebrated on the weekend and that it used to be on Thursday. The church was decorated for it on Thursday but we celebrated St. Joseph the Worker that day. There was an Ascension homily for the weekend masses and it was also mentioned as the 7th Sunday of Easter.😉
 
Ascension Thursday was celebrated today in my local Latin parish and the homily of the priest was about the feast of the Ascension. Being Byzantine Catholic I attended this same Latin Rite parish on Thursday for Mass as for Byzantines the feast has not been moved to the following Sunday and I am obligated by that discipline to attend on a holy day kept by the Byzantine Church whether or not the partricular holyday is being celebrated locally on that day or not. Now when I went to the Mass on Thursday the feast of St. Joseph the Worker was being celebrated. I thought this was on March 19th? In case anyone wonders, my nearest Byzantine parish is quite far so that is why I attended the Latin Church. Yes, it all did seem a little weird to go to Mass one day to honor a feast that wasnt being celebrated until the following Sunday but the priest today really did give a nice homily about the Ascension today. Im with everyone else here who thinks we need to celebrate these feasts of Our Lord on their proper day. As far as Im concerned they arent significant enough to some people when transferred to a Sunday.
 
Yes he did, in fact from what my mom was told by her priest our bishop is trying to get the Ascension moved back to Thursday in our diocese. So maybe next year we will actually celebrate on Thursday.
 
monorail said:
We got the Ascension today. I was pretty confused when the readings didn’t match Magnificat’s, but caught on eventually…
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Me too. The priest did mention it, but it was not as emphasized as it could have been. I had to mention it to my children so they wouldn’t miss it.
 
Lepanto said:
Did your priest preach on the Ascension today? .
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oh yes he did and it rocked, perfect lead in to evangelization, and to RCIA, and segued into my confirmation class topic perfectly, as if it was planned.
 
IrishAm said:
I . (He whined a bit about not being able to be able to do a Novena to the Holy Spirit between the Solemnity of the Ascension and Pentacost Sunday – but I told him after Mass that if I could figure out how to do it (pull out the old books and start on Friday, as usual), so could he! And he grinned. .
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according to the NOvena I pulled of EWTN it must begin to coincide with the traditional date of Ascension, even when the observance of Ascension has been moved to Sunday (as it is here) so that is when we started it.
 
Not today but it was mentioned that it would be talked about next weekend.

What I heard (only) was a tape recorded message from the cardinal of the arch diocese about the bishops appeal for the area. The same one I heard/saw on the projector screen in the sanctuary last weekend at the parish I am registered at.

I was a bit surprised to hear it twice in a row. It must not have been played at this parish last weekend.

Peace.
 
My priest gave a really good homily about The Ascension and how even though, Jesus has gone into Heaven, true to his word, he is with us always. And he talked about what that meant for us.
 
Our priest’s homily was on the Ascension, and he gave the Solemn Blessing today. 🙂
 
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