The Ascension occurs exactly 40 days after Easter. This puts it on a Thursday.
During the Mass, a very special Liturgical action takes place. After the Gospel is read, the Pascal Candle is extinguished. This symbolizes that Our Lord in his glorified Body has left us and gone to Heaven. Of course we still have Him sacramentally present in the Blessed Sacrament, but He is physically gone.
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