Alternate side parking regulations are suspended on Thursday, May 5 for holiday observance (“Solemnity of Ascension,” which sounds like it must be a Catholic holiday). All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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UPDATE: Heather found out (see Comments) that Solemnity of Ascension is a feast recalling the completion of Christ’s mission on earth: “I had no idea this is worthy of suspension of alternate side parking regulations. Maybe it should be called the “Solemnity of Suspension.”
Image: Salvador Dali, The Ascension of Christ (1958) [Salvador Dali Gallery]
Found this on the www:
“According to the Catholic Almanac, the feast [Solemnity of Ascension] recalls the completion of Christ’s mission on earth for the salvation of all people and his entry into heaven with glorified human nature. The Ascension is a pledge of the final glorification of all who achieve salvation….. But the ‘sad fact’ is that the feast now is celebrated by a very small percentage of Catholics….”
Wow, I had no idea this is worthy of suspension of alternate side parking regulations. Maybe it should be called the “Solemnity of Suspension.”
Heather’s on the right track, but hasn’t gotten all the way there. After Jesus was resurrected–on Easter Sunday–he continued to appear to the Apostles for 40 days, then he ascended (finally) into Heaven. So, 40 days after Easter is this Thursday. Happily for New York parkers, although Catholic bishops have since 1998 been allowed to transfer observance to the next Sunday (the seventh Sunday after Easte), the New York archdiocese hasn’t done so.
I would think Cinco de Mayo is the better reason for suspending parking rules
I love that painting. To me it totally looks like getting an MRI or CAT-scan.