In academic and seminar settings, I was always asked the difference between Christ’s Ascension and Mary’s Assumption, both going up to heaven? And the answer is as simple as the question.

"And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight" (Acts 1:9). Today, 40 days after Easter, is known as the "Feast of the Ascension ...

A. After forty days Christ ascended into heaven, and the day on which be ascended into heaven is calledAscension Day. Q. 415. Where did the ascension of Our Lord take place? A. Christ ascended ...

The Feast of the Ascension is the fortieth day after Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Ascension of Christ into heaven, according to Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, and Acts 1:2.