Blessed feast of the Ascension of Christ!

In order to experience Christ’s Ascension and comprehend its mystery as far as possible, we must keep the life-giving commandments, acquire the deifying virtues, especially humility and love, so that we can endure every tribulation and temptation which comes by reason of our being Christians, but even to have the desire for martyrdom for the glory of Christ’s name.

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
Source: Holy Monastery of Virgin Mary the Consolatory, Quebec