The Ascension Chicago Heroes It was the crossing of

It was the crossing of paths of two future saints as Cardinal Sarto was the future Pope- and later Saint- Pius X

Mother Frances and her sisters became the first congregation of nuns to live and minister in the sprawling city on the lake called Chicago

Presentation of the Theotokos

refugees and victims of war and reopened portions of the Vatican as shelters and showers for homeless men and women

She waded into the margins of society and fed the hungry

The Ascension Chicago Heroes It was the crossing ofForty days after Easter As the Orthodox writers Leonid Ouspensky and Vladimir Lossky wrote about the Ascension of Jesus, it is the entire process of salvation consummated, birth, death and resurrection all fulfilled in the Ascension. Jesus ascends on his own power from the slopes of Mount Olivet, watched by the Virgin and Apostles, including two angels who frame the Virgin in white while pointing upwards as if to say, Why do you stand looking into