[kstewskis]

This traditional Lutheran still can't figure out how celebrating Ascension on the Seventh Sunday of Easter is still forty days. Forty three equals forty? This new math amazes me.

???

'fraid I don't follow you.

We in the RCC celebrated the 13th Sunday after Pentacost. Where to you reckon 7th Sunday?

Perhaps the Eastern observation?

[donbosco74]

You seem to be confusing the Ascension with the Assumption.

Not a difficult slip to make, by the way.

The Ascension was Jesus in the presence of the Apostles, rising into the air and being obscured by moving clouds, in silence. It's in the Bible.

The Assumption refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary, after having been buried (probably in a sarcophagus), was found by the apostles to have been taken up, body and soul, in silence, into heaven. The exact specifics of this event are not spelled out in Scripture, however, and therefore merely reading the Bible will not answer your questions. Also, people who read the Bible, even regularly, might be subject to making this mistake of confusing the Ascension with the Assumption.