The Ascension of our Lord used to be celebrated universally and dramatically. Some churches had special holes in their roofs that were used on Ascension Day; when the words were read - "While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven" - a likeness of the risen Lord would be hauled up from the floor of the nave to and through the roof and out of sight of the people worshiping below. The same hole was used on the Day of Pentecost when, in some of these same churches, roses were showered down from above to symbolize the tongues of fire that "rested on each one of them" on the first Pentecost. Today, we simply move the Paschal candle, if there is one in our church, from the altar-table to the baptismal font, extinguishing it at the same gospel-signal, "... he parted …