The Ascension Day
admin | 10 May 2018The collect for today, The Ascension Day, being the fortieth day after Easter, sometimes called Holy Thursday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with him continuously dwell, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Lesson: Acts 1:1-11
The Gospel: St. Mark 16:14-20
Artwork: Hans Memling, The Ascension (right panel of The Triptych of the Resurrection), c. 1490. Oil on wood, Louvre, Paris.