Look, I understand very clearly the whole argument: The Ascension occurred 40 days after the resurrection and that means Our Lord ascended on a Thursday. I get it, and in a perfect Catholic state I would agree. But in a perfect Catholic state, I, and Bear and our kids would get that particular Thursday off from work, as it stands we don't. Now, it isn't about committing a sin or one is excused if one "REALLY can't observe the Feast, through no fault of their own" It's about Celebrating the Feast. The fact the in my Archdiocese, The Ascension was celebrated on Sunday, and I am grateful that it was: It means that my husband and the rest of us were able to commemorate and celebrate our Lord's triumphant ascension to Heaven.
On several other posts, both in blogs and on Facebook, people (who insist that, damn what other people can or can't do on Thursdays, they deserve to celebrate on Ascension Thursday) are very insulting toward Ascension Sunday. The very moniker of Ascension Thursday Sunday is insulting to the feast day: Our Lord's Feast Day! Many Feasts are not celebrated on the actual day of the year when it happened originally in Our Lord's Life: Christmas is hardly celebrated on the Lord's actual birthday. How do we know Mary was actually born in September?
One poster actually called those of us who appreciate the Ascension Sunday as Liturginazis. Really, Nazis. Nazis were purists; and since the pure celebration of the Ascension is for it to be celebrated on Thursday wouldn't the name liturginazi be more suited to those who insist on it being on the celebration purely on a Thursday.
If the archdiocese were to remove the Ascension Sunday Option and go back to Ascension Thursday, I would then accept it, but it would sadden to me know that I would probably have to wait a very long time before I could celebrate the Lord's Ascension again. We are Catholic, yes, but the rest of society don't give a crap about what our Holidays are.
Bear's co-worker who is Coptic almost didn't get his Good Friday off, because it landed in a black out period. Would he have sinned to miss his Good Friday, no, but he would have been distressed by it. Bear himself would not be able to get the day off for a "minor" Feast like the Ascension. If you have the luxury of getting the day off and can attend.
But what the bells do I know?
On several other posts, both in blogs and on Facebook, people (who insist that, damn what other people can or can't do on Thursdays, they deserve to celebrate on Ascension Thursday) are very insulting toward Ascension Sunday. The very moniker of Ascension Thursday Sunday is insulting to the feast day: Our Lord's Feast Day! Many Feasts are not celebrated on the actual day of the year when it happened originally in Our Lord's Life: Christmas is hardly celebrated on the Lord's actual birthday. How do we know Mary was actually born in September?
One poster actually called those of us who appreciate the Ascension Sunday as Liturginazis. Really, Nazis. Nazis were purists; and since the pure celebration of the Ascension is for it to be celebrated on Thursday wouldn't the name liturginazi be more suited to those who insist on it being on the celebration purely on a Thursday.
If the archdiocese were to remove the Ascension Sunday Option and go back to Ascension Thursday, I would then accept it, but it would sadden to me know that I would probably have to wait a very long time before I could celebrate the Lord's Ascension again. We are Catholic, yes, but the rest of society don't give a crap about what our Holidays are.
Bear's co-worker who is Coptic almost didn't get his Good Friday off, because it landed in a black out period. Would he have sinned to miss his Good Friday, no, but he would have been distressed by it. Bear himself would not be able to get the day off for a "minor" Feast like the Ascension. If you have the luxury of getting the day off and can attend.
But what the bells do I know?