Christi Himmelfahrt or Why I like the German language

May 20th was the Day of Christ's Ascension and the German translation demonstrates one of the reasons I have come to appreciate German. The translation is "Christi Himmelfahrt." Christi, of course, just means Christ's (following the Latin form of the possessive). But the word Himmelfahrt is more interesting.

It's made up of two words: Himmel, meaning heaven, and Fahrt, meaning trip or journey. Both of these words are used in everyday speech which is in contrast to the English ascension. This everydayness of the words where English words for abstract ideas often seem distanced and academic is in a nutshell what I wanted to say and suffices for now.