I suppose it is understandable that there is a very limited celebration of Ascension. Our minds are so earthbound that the thought of God joining us down here (Christmas) gives us a buzz that one of us (Jesus) joining the Godhead's throne up there doesn't give.
Given our earthliness it is typical that one of the old English customs that survives from Ascension Day (though often carried out on another date these days) is the beating of the bounds. By this custom the margins of each parish were marked and noted. Though in time blessings from above were also invocated it seems very weird that the movement of the Son of God from earth to heaven should be accompanied by the earth people marking out their plots of earth.
Anyway the clue is in the ascending, the significance of which is not where heaven is but that Christ is no longer on earth in the flesh. Humanity has another home. Instead of beating the bounds, Jesus has broken the bounds for us.
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