The Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and commemorates the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. This year the Ascension falls on May 17, as it is always celebrated on Thursday (40 days after Easter). In the Eastern Church this feast was known as analepsis, the taking up, and also as the episozomene, the salvation, denoting that by ascending into his glory Christ completed the work of our redemption. In Moldova and Romania the feast is called Ispas, as this was the day of a lively man, named Ispas, who saw Jesus’ ascension to the sky. On this day, nut and sycamore maple leaves are brought in the house and church. After Jesus’ Ascension, people do not eat red eggs anymore and do not seed the field. People give as charity boiled milk and boiled corn seeds for the dead. Also, on this day the people greet each other with the words "Christ has ascended" instead of “Christ has risen”, as they used to during the forty-day Easter tide.