The Ascension of Our Lord, which occurred 40 days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead on Easter, is the final act of our redemption that Christ began on Good Friday. On this day, the risen Christ, in the sight of His apostles, ascended bodily into Heaven.

Christ's bodily Ascension foreshadows our own entrance into Heaven not simply as souls, after our death, but as glorified bodies, after the resurrection of the dead at the Final Judgment. In redeeming man

kind, Christ not only offered salvation to our souls but began the restoration of the material world itself to the glory that God intended before Adam's fall.

Mass Schedule for Hancock County:

St. Joseph Church, 231 Main Street, Ellsworth - Thursday at 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Holy Hope Church, 137 Perkins Street, Castine – Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 8 Granite Street, Stonington – Thursday at 10:30 a.m.

St. Vincent de Paul Church, 60 Franklin Street, Bucksport – Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

Holy Redeemer Church, 56 Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor - Thursday at 7:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.