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The Icon Of The Ascension Of The Lord


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The ascension is one of the great Christian holiday that is always celebrated on the 40th day after Easter. In 2015, the Ascension will be celebrated on may 21. Christ After His ascension was already in a visible way on the earth, and ascended into heaven. He continues to be invisible in the Church founded by him.

The history of the holiday.

About the events of the ascension is narrated in the Gospels of Mark and Luke and in the acts of the apostles. According to these sources, after his Resurrection from the dead, the Lord repeatedly appeared to his disciples , convinced of the truth of this great miracle, and prepared them to accept the promised Holy spirit. The Savior was erected disciples to the mount of olives, to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. Then He began to ascend to the sky, moving away from them. The acts of the Apostles describe that when the rapture of Christ was hidden by the cloud and to the crowd on the hill came two angels announcing the Second coming of the Lord. The students gleefully went back to Jerusalem and after some time came upon them the Holy Spirit (now celebrated as the feast of the Trinity or Pentecost).

Until the end of the 4th century the Ascension was not separated from Pentecost, and only after the separation of the Trinity as a festive day at the Church Council in Elvira (300g.) The ascension also got the status of separate holidays. "Apostolic Decree" about the year 380, has established the celebration of Easter after ascension, on the 40th day.

The holiday traditions.

This holiday in the national calendar was the day of remembrance of deceased relatives. Baked pies, which the upper crust was produced in the form of seven cross bars (the number of the heavens of the Apocalypse). These pies were called listovkami, lestnitsami or climbing frame. They were brought to the temple was consecrated, after which one part was given to the priests, and the other was distributed to the poor. From Easter to ascension was considered a great sin to refuse to help the stranger, the needy person or beggar. In some localities it was the custom "to go to the crossroads", that is, to visit family and friends. The gift also brought the "ladder" are usually made of wheat flour with honey and sugar pattern. In Moscow on the occasion staged a cheerful festivities in the squares and around the churches.

The main consequence of the assumption is that being born on earth, Christ took on himself human flesh, did not avoid suffering and death-but beat it and human nature got full participation in eternal bliss in heaven.