The Lord’s Prayer and What Words to Say in Honor of the Feast

The Ascension of God - one of the most important church holidays, which since ancient times is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter. On Thursday, May 28, 2020, we celebrate Ascension Day. At the end of the article there will be a prayer that must be said sincerely.

Jesus’ resurrection was a sign that his earthly life was coming to an end. But he did not immediately go to heaven, and for another 40 days communicated with his disciples in the form of a man. Jesus gave them advice and blessed the apostles for future accomplishments.

Ascension of the Lord in 2020


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The Son of God also sent an important message to his disciples that he would return to earth. This will be his second coming, which is described in the book of the Apocalypse. Jesus will come to judge everyone for their sins.



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Why did Jesus enter his father’s temple on the 40th day? According to the law of Moses, all parents must bring their babies to the temple on the 40th day after birth. Similarly, after the Resurrection, on the 40th day, the Son of God was to enter the heavenly temple of his father.



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The Church calls us not to be discouraged during these forty days, and on Wednesday, on the eve of the feast, to attend the all-night service. On Thursday, the day of Ascension, there will be a solemn liturgy.



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On this day, the hostess bake "ladders" - delicious rectangular pies with onions. Each cake is decorated with small partitions, symbolizing the ladder by which Jesus ascended to heaven in the Temple of God.





On the day of the Ascension of the Lord, you need to try to maintain peace of mind: you should not quarrel with your loved ones over trifles, it is better to do something good for them.



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On this day, you can not do hard work, but you should not shift your duties to others either. It is better to postpone things for later, devoting yourself to prayer and enlightenment on the day of the Ascension of the Lord.



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Also on this day, you can not remember dead relatives. Naturally, we can remember the dead and pray for them every day, but in churches on the Twelve Feasts there is no memorial service.



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In Ascension, one cannot think of the bad. It is worth spending the whole day with the family, and in the evening visit a temple or church. But if there is no opportunity to visit the temple (and it is not because of quarantine), you can read a house prayer. God will hear.

“Lord Jesus Christ, our God, who descended from the heavenly heights of our salvation for our sake and nourished us with spiritual joy on the holy and bright days of Your Resurrection, and who ascended from us to heaven with glory and ascended to the right hand of God and the Father.”

On this clear and all-light day of the Divine ascension into heaven, Your earth celebrates and rejoices, and the heavens also rejoice with the Ascension of the Creator of creation today, the people glorify their incessantly, erroneously and fallen nature on Your Ramo, Your Savior, lifted up in weight and into heaven, but the angels rejoice, saying: Who is this, who has come in glory, strong in battle, this is truly the King of Glory?

Like us, too, weak, earthly still wise, and flesh-pleasing create unceasing, Your rising to heaven is terrible thinking and idle, carnal and worldly to put aside care, and from Your Apostles to heaven now look with all your heart and with all your thinking, reminiscent, as there is a mountain in heaven our dwelling, here on earth we are travelers and aliens of the Esma, who departed from the house of the Father into the land far away sin.

For this reason we fervently ask You, by Your glorious Ascension, O Lord, to revive our conscience, for we need nothing else in the world, raise us up from the captivity of this sinful flesh and world, and make us mountain wise, and not earthly wisdom, for let us not please ourselves and live, but we will serve and work to You the Lord and Our God, having renounced the bonds of the flesh and passed unconscionable air toration, and will reach to Your holy and living Angels, in Your name, in the Holy One and living, and in the Oneness, in the Holy One, and in the Holy One, and in the Holy One, and in the Holy One, and in the One. Amen.



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We wish you God's grace! Be sure to spend the day of the Ascension of the Lord, maintaining peace of mind.