Ascension Thursday

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It is interesting that even the 1983 New Code of Canon Law still includes Ascension Thursday as a Holy Day of Obligation.

However, since 1991 the US Conference of Bishops have excluded it: 

Canon 1246, §2 - Holy Days of Obligation

On December 13, 1991 the members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the United States of America made the following general decree concerning holy days of obligation for Latin Rite Catholics:
In addition to Sunday, the days to be observed as holy days of obligation in the Latin Rite dioceses of the United States of America, in conformity with canon 1246, are as follows:

January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension
August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
November 1, the solemnity of All Saints
December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

[...] This decree of the Conference of Bishops was approved and confirmed by the Apostolic See by a decree of the Congregation for Bishops (Prot. N. 296/84), signed by Bernardin Cardinal Gantin, Prefect of the Congregation, and dated July 4, 1992.

So the SSPX in Kansas (the largest SSPX chapel in the US?) is following the 1991 Conciliar USCCB rather than even the 1983 Conciliar Code of Canon Law, i.e. they are following the more progressive option!