Note 244 — Chapter I · THE CHURCH’S YEAR (continued 2)
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When Chrysostom (Hom. in Acta Apost., 3, 1) places our Lord’s Ascension on Saturday, it may be that he reckoned the interval after the Resurrection as consisting of forty full days. One is not justified in concluding, as some do, that in Antioch the Ascension was kept on Saturday.