Today is one of the major feasts of the Christian year, where we celebrate the fact that Jesus is ascended to the right hand of the Father in glory. It's a day to recognize the victory of Christ over the powers of this world, and it is good to remember that we are the inheritors of that victory.
A fitting prayer:
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God,
that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son
our Lord Jesus Christ
to have ascended into the heavens;
so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend,
and with him continually dwell,
who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost,
one God, world without end. Amen.
-'28 BCP Collect
On a personal note, the Lenten season passes much more slowly than the Easter season. Even recognizing it's shorter by, what, six days?, this 40 day period has galloped by.
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