The Ascension Icon

Christ's ascension is celebrated annually 40 days after Easter Sunday. It is one of the major Christian festivals of the year, and the icon teaches us more about it.
LINKS:
Reread Acts chapter 1: catenabible.co...
A short clip about the Ascension from ‪@fr.ajarmus‬: • On the Ascension of Ch...
A video about the Ascension from ‪@JonathanPageau‬ : • What is a Body? | Unde...
A short Orthodox article on the ascension: www.goarch.org...
An video on Ascension Day: • Holy Ascension - Explo...
A longer talk about the icon of the Ascension (turn on subtitles) by ‪@otelders‬ : • THE ASCENSION ICON EXP...
Some of the iconography in this video is by Aidan Hart: aidanharticons.com
Hymns of Ascension: • The Troparion and Exap...
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Truly He is risen!

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I think it was Isaac the Syrian who said " Orhodoxy is like a bottomless well and no.matter where you are in it you are at the beginning" Your vids make me realise i just have my toe in the water ! From an OC in Japan.

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Nmorris, ☦💝📿💝☦, do you ever get to visit Nikolairo in Tokyo? A dear, now reposed, Japanese friend of mine, went there with a friend after WWII, to hear the choir, during a Divine Liturgy. They were prtnsts. She was convinced that she heard the angels singing, and never left. Met an American military guy of Ukrainian descent and married and eventually lived in Hawaii, until she moved to the US after his repose, to be with her daughter. [She and Elder Ephraim of AZ, were dear friends. He used to stay in their home.. Her daughter said that they were about the same height!] Memory Eternal!

[@nmoriss]

@@lindaphillips4646 I was in Nikolaido last Sunday although I usually attend a Romanian church. I did tell your story to a close elderly friend who has been at Nikolaido all of her life (originally Georgian) whose niece is in Hawaii. If you want to share your friend's name I will ask - she more than likely knows her. Metropolitan Daniel reposed about 8 months ago - he has been at Nikolaido since the 50's and would also have known your friend. Nikolaido has a fascinating history, besides the mazing stories of St Nichols opening so many churches in Japan but also from around the war years when many White Russians came from Manchuria. Unfortunately Orthodoxy in Japan has wained since then with less than .1% being OC. That said, Japanese culture has many christian values which we sadly no longer see in the west, such as humility.

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​​@@nmorissoh, thank you, for this wonderful response. Such sites as this open us to the world. One never knows who might respond. [THANK YOU, PATRISTIX!!] The lovely lady was the mother of someone who worked in London for something my husband was Dean of in the States.. I saw her only a few times after she moved here when she and her daughter and son-in-law came to church where we were. BUT i loved every moment with her. And i have learned amazing stories about her in this last year. I can ask her daughter the last name. And her Japanese name. I cannot think of her Japanese name. (Which i find strange. ), but her Orthodox name was Anna, and i only learned that last year after her repose. And that has become the name i use and think of now. I think the last name started with Danko... something. I'm sorry i can't be more helpful.. I will forward this to her daughter .. My husband also oversaw something in Japan, so we went together a few times and he went at least once a year.. We became Orthodox in those years, and one of the joys of my life was to attend a Divine Liturgy in Nikolaido. I agree with you about the qualities of Japanese that are lacking in our culture. I will probably fall asleep tonight thinking about the joys of having made those trips to Japan. Thank you.

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Really appreciate the kind words! Thank you!

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☦🎵☦The Exapostalarion of ASCENSION : "With Thy disciples watching Thee, O, Christ, Thou wast taken up to the Father to take Thy seat with Him. Angels ran forward crying out, Lift up the gates, lift them up, For the King has gone up to the glory, The source of light! " ☦🎵☦🎵☦🎵☦

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Truly He is risen!

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Thank you for explaining so beautifully this holy icon

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This is a great tool, especially for young people to know the basics of our Faith!

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Will you do videos on other icons like Annunciation, Pentecost, Pantocrator (especially the one from saint Catherine monastery)?

[@Patristix]

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For some reason the whole video made me cry. Beautiful. Thank you. A question I always ask myself when I see icons, why don't angels have beards? and their faces look like women?

[@hz3917]

They are neither male or female

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@@hz3917 interesting, thanks

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Juan, no surprise that we shed tears. No surprise

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TY dude ily yr vids sm❤❤❤❤ can u please explain.Cruxifiction icon?

[@PomazeBog1389]

You and I have the same Ascension icon. Is that from the set that comes with 13 icons?

[@MrBJYates]

It seems to me that there are mostly icons of individuals and icons of events--perhaps there are more I'm unaware of. Are there official names of the different types of groups of icons?

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Does anyone else find the background music distracting? What is wrong with me? PATRISTIX.. Thank you for this video despite my adverse reaction to the music.

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Yes. I find the female voice oooohhhhhing through the background very distracting. Not all the music used in this one is distracting to me.

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I agree