What is Ascension Day or Holy Thursday mean to a Episcopal and a Catholic ?
HOLY THURSDAY – Also called Maundy Thursday, the anniversary of the Last Supper, when Christ instituted the Eucharist, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the sacrament of the priesthood. On Holy Thursday, since the early Church, the blessing of the holy oils has taken place. The Church’s emphasis in the revised liturgy for Holy Thursday is on the institution of the priesthood. ASCENSION – Christ’s going up to heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead. All the creeds affirm the fact, and the Church teaches that he ascended into heaven in body and soul (Denzinger 801). He ascended into heaven by his own power, as God in divine power and as man in the power of his transfigured soul, which moves his transfigured body, as it will. In regard to the human nature of Christ, one can also say, with the Scriptures, that it was taken up or elevated into heaven by God (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Acts 1:9, 11). Rationalism has denied the doctrine since the earliest times, e.g., Celsus in the s
