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By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - The reason we still have a vocations crisis isn't poor catechesis or smaller families. It's something more insidious... Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you are aware that the Church is experiencing a vocation crisis. The numbers are bleak, and they have been for decades. Sure, there are bright spots here and there, mainly with traditional orders and societies of priests who often ordain more priests in a single seminary than the entire nation of Ireland did last year. ...

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - The Feast of the Ascension seems on a par with Easter.  It gets equal attention in the creeds: “On the third day, he arose from the dead.  He ascended into heaven.”  It is the first doctrine Jesus preaches upon his Resurrection. He tells Mary Magdalene, “go to my brethren and say to them” – not, “I am risen” – but rather “I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17)  She saw that he had risen.  The Lord did not need to tell her that. But He does tell her, as a matter of first importance, that He will ascend.