QUOTATION: Christ's Ascension

Christ's Ascension to the right hand of God is marvellous, because it is a sure token that heaven is a certain fixed place, and not a mere state.

--Blessed John Henry Newman

QUOTATION: Ascension

The joy of the disciples after the “Ascension” corrects our image of the event. “Ascension” does not mean departure into a remote region of the cosmos but, rather, the continuing closeness that the disciples experience so strongly that it becomes a source of lasting joy.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 2