Ummm.... Ascension?

I can understand that after the gutting of the calendar accomplished by the Church of Convenience, an American bishop might not know, or might not want to call attention to what Catholics believe happened Forty Days after Christ rose from the dead --

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0703689.htm

As Bishop Sam G. Jacobs of Houma-Thibodaux, La., pointed out in a keynote address at a June 22-24 Conference of the Charismatic Renewal, the number 40 appears in the Bible nearly 200 times. For 40 years the Israelites wandered in search of the Promised Land; for 40 days Jesus prayed in the desert; Pentecost came 40 days after Jesus' resurrection, he said.