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- Jean François de Troy's 1721 "Ascension of Christ." The art has been up for a few weeks in the church, and Dykes said the reactions have all been positive.

The apostles look upward in a state of joyous confusion; Theotokas Mary, Christ’s mother, gazes serenely ahead with the angels, given knowledge that her son’s Ascension completes the Holy Trinity.

The Solemnity of the Ascension of Jesus Christ commemorates the Catholic belief of the bodily Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven. This is considered a Holy Day of obligation.

– Jean François de Troy’s 1721 “Ascension of Christ.” The art has been up for a few weeks in the church, and Dykes said the reactions have all been positive.