Ascension Day 2009

Ascension Day symbolize as the last look of Jesus to the follower after his rebirth at Easter. This year, the day fell on May 21, 2009. Ascension Day is the 40th day after Easter Sunday and always falls on a Thursday and it marks the ending of Easter season. The name “ascension” comes from the Bible.

Saint Augustine said that this is the festival which confirms the grace of all the festivals together, without which the profitably of every festival would have putrefied. It’s celebrated by worldwide and it’s a holiday in several European countries, such as France, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands etc. On this day several churches join to celebrate a mixed Day of the Prayer and the Ascension Day tune. Some churches organize “the church crawl” at where societies travel from one church to another and experience the varied prayer events.

Superstitions related with the Ascension Day

• If climate is sunny, the summer will be extensive and hot; except if it rains, harvests will do poorly and livestock, particularly cattle, will endure from ailment.
• Rain gathered on the Ascension Day is suspected to be superior for diseased or inflamed eyes.
• Those miseries from goiter should bite into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on the Ascension Day
• Gifts to lame or blind made on this day are certain to be satisfied with massive wealth contained by the next 12 months.
• Though you eat red meat on the Ascension Day, your eye will expand a pigpen and your retinas also will isolate.
• In accordance with the Welsh superstition, it is ill-fated to do some work on the Ascension Day.
• In Devon, it was traditional assurance that clouds always shaped into a familiar Christian icon of a lamb.

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