The Ascension of the Lord, the last event in his earthly life

The feast of the Ascension of the Lord celebrated in the Thursday of the sixth week after Easter, forty days after the resurrection of the Savior, is one of the oldest Christian feasts, attested since the fourth century

This year the feast of the Ascension of the Lord has as a celebration date of May 29. In the people, this holiday is known as Ispas.

For 40 days, the Savior has discovered several times to the apostles that he had risen from the dead. At the end of these days, it is shown again to the disciples, promises the sending of the Holy Spirit and rises to heaven enveloped by a cloud and gives them a blessing. At that moment, two angels showed themselves saying, « Galilee men, why do you look at heaven? This Jesus who raised from you to heaven will come and come, as you saw him going to heaven. »

Father Dumitru Stăniloae says that the elevation also meant the ascension of the human nature in heaven.

At the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, the heroes, soldiers and Romanian fighters of all time and from all places are mentioned, who sacrificed on the battlefields, in camps and in prisons for the defense of the Fatherland and of the ancestral faith, for the whole of the nation, the freedom and the dignity of the Romanian people.

The Ascension of the Lord and the Day of Heroes – the word of His High Priest Calinic

« The Ascension of the Lord is the proof that people are created to inherit eternal life; not to inherit the earth, but to rise to heaven; not for the grave or rot, but for glory. Therefore, the Ascension of the Lord is the testimony that the Son of God has not left the world, but for us, Resurrection.

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The heroes have passed with dignity abroad, leaving our model and belief that the history of a nation is for every history of its ministry. Military virtues and Christian values ​​have meant for them, in a unitary whole, alpha and omega to a fulfilled life. They moved between these two coordinates with the serenity that the consciousness of a fulfilled debt prints. For them, the fundamental values ​​- such as duty, honor and homeland – were not just words of complexity.

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I was a nation settled in the way of all the wicked, says the chronicler. The country was forced to defend itself from the wrath of those without a nation and the country. The Romanian military man was permanently waking, always in a state of fighting. With the pagans, our military did not have the country to divide … The heroes, as well as the saints, are not from myth or legend, but they were the military-generals, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers, secondary in situations of young people and old people, men and women, students and students, and students consciousness, with determination and character. They were ready at any time to assume the noble condition of heroes of the nation they served with sacrifice.

Many times, the peace preached by the Church had to be acquired by struggle. Rovine, Posada, Mărăşti, Mărăşeşti and Oituz, Războieni, High Bridge, Călugăreni, Plevna and Smârdan et al. I am testified in this regard.

Those who held their nation did not inclined their heads, nor turned their cheek, but engaged in battle. In such situations, God asks man other behavioral measures, especially when faith, nation and country are in question.

Undoubtedly, peace is preferable to war, but not at any cost. If our saints voivodes had not taken an attitude, you should be entrusted that today we were neither Romanians nor Christians. And if they were not the heroes who had taken attitude against communism, many of them end in prisons, camps and prisons, today we would have had neither Easter nor Christmas. And if in 1989 were not the young heroes, who would say Not! Atheism, God would have been removed outside the borders of our country. Or, what would the nation and the country mean without God?!

The heroes have passed with dignity abroad, leaving our model and belief that the history of a nation is for every history of its ministry. Therefore, their glories remained imperishable. « (Source: Archiepiscopiasucevei.ro)