Propers for Ascension Day
Entrance Antiphon
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking in the sky?
The Lord will return, just as you have seen him ascend, alleluia!
The Collect
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that as we believe your only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ
to have ascended into the heavens,
so we in heart and mind may also ascend and with him continually dwell;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
The Readings
Missal (St Mark’s) Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47:2-3,6-9
Ephesians 1:17-23
Matthew 28:16-20
RCL (St Gabriel’s) Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47
Ephesians 1:15-23
Luke 24: 44-53
The Ascension Canticle
The following Canticle is appropriate for Ascension Day and may be used as an alternative ending to the service of Spiritual Communion, or at some other appropriate time during worship.
A Song of Christ’s Glory
Response: At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, alleluia!
Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.
He emptied himself,
taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
even death on a cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Response: At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, alleluia!
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