Today’s homily: Ascension Day (2026)

On Ascension Day, the Church stands with the Apostles and Our Lady upon Olivet as Christ, the Crucified and Risen Lord, is taken into Heaven. The feast is not a farewell but a coronation: the Sacred Humanity of Christ, bearing our frail human nature, is enthroned at the right hand of the Father. Rooted in the Tridentine propers of the Missa “Viri Galilaei”, the Roman station at St Peter’s, the extinguishing of the Paschal Candle, and the proper Communicantes, this homily presents the Ascension as the glorification of man in Christ, the beginning of the Church’s mission, and the summons to lift our hearts from earthly smallness to heavenly destiny. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/05/14/todays-mass-may-14-ascension-day/