Our context for the 4th Sunday after Easter is, in the liturgical year, our preparation for the Ascension of the Lord. Sometimes the Feast of the Ascension Thursday is given short shrift, which is unfortunate. One could argue that transferring Ascension from Thursday to Sunday was intended to emphasize the feast by making it more accessible to a week-day working congregation. On the other hand, when bishops dissolved mid-week obligations, transferring important moments such as Epiphany…