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Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter), in Houston, Texas, on the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord (May 13, 2021). The Jesus of the Ordinariate (and a few other ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the country) always catches His flight to Heaven on time, while His flight home is delayed throughout the majority of American dioceses, thus rendering the feast Ascension Sunday instead of Ascension Thursday, supposedly because a mid-week holy day is too much of a burden for either the clergy or the laity. Not only is this an embarrassing assertion, it also breaks a definite linkage with New Testament chronology (which tells us that Christ ascended to His Father “forty days” after His Resurrection); it also destroys the centuries-old novena to the Holy Spirit, whereby Catholics have joined with Our Lady and the Apostles in the Upper

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