GLORIOUS SOLEMNITY OF THE
ASCENSION OF OUR LORD
HOLY
DAY OF OBLIGATION
Double of the First Class with privileged
Octave
of the Third Order
White vestments
Missa ‘Viri Galilaei’
INTROITUS
Viri Galiǽi, quid admirámini
aspiciéntes in cælum? allelúia: quemádmodum vidístis eum ascendéntem in cælum,
ita véniet, allelúia, allelúia, allelúia. Ps. 44. 2. Omnes
gentes, pláudite mánibus: jubiláte Deo in voce exsultatiónis. V. Glória Patri
INTROIT - Isaias 60: 20
Ye men of Galilee, why wonder you, looking up to
Heaven? Alleluia. He shall so come as you have seen Him going up into Heaven,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. (Ps. 44: 2) O clap
your hands, all ye nations shout unto God, with the voice of exultation. v. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the
Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without
end. Amen.
COLLECT
Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God: that we, who
believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have ascended on this day
into heaven, may also ourselves dwell in mind amid heavenly things. Through our
Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who livest and reignest with Thee in the unity of
the Holy Ghost, one God.
EPISTLE - Acts 1: 1-11
Lesson from the Acts of the Apostles.
The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all
things which Jesus began to do and to teach, until the day on which, giving
commandments by the Holy Ghost to the Apostles whom He had chosen, He was taken
up: to whom also He showed Himself alive after His Passion by many proofs, for
forty days appearing to them and speaking of the Kingdom of God. And eating
together with them, He commanded them that they should not depart from
Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard
(saith He), by My mouth for John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. They therefore who were come
together asked Him, saying: Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the
kingdom of Israel? But He said to them: It is not for you to know the times or
moments which the Father hath put in His own power: but you shall receive the
power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the
earth. And when He had said these things while they looked on, He was raised
up: and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they were beholding
Him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments, who
also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus,
who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen Him going
into Heaven.
ALLELUIA - Ps. 46: 6
Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps. 46: 6 God is ascended with a shout, and the Lord with the sound of a
trumpet.
ALLELUIA
Alleluia. The Lord is in Sinai, in the holy place
ascending on high He hath led captivity captive. Alleluia.
GOSPEL - Mark 16: 14-20
The continuation of the holy Gospel according to Mark.
At that time Jesus appeared to the eleven as they were
at table: and He upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart,
because they did not believe them who had seen Him after He was risen again.
And He said to them: “Go ye into the whole world and preach the Gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that
believeth not shall be condemned. And these signs shall follow them that
believe: In My Name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues; they shall take up serpents and if they shall drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they
shall recover.” And the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into
Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God. But they going forth preached
everywhere, the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that
followed.
Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great
29th on the Gospels - Roman Breviary
I may be allowed to say that the
disciples' slowness to believe that the Lord had indeed risen from the dead,
was not so much their weakness as our strength. In consequence of their doubts,
the fact of the Resurrection was demonstrated by many infallible proofs. These
proofs we read and acknowledge. What then assureth our faith, if not their
doubt? For my part, I put my trust in Thomas, who doubted long, much more than
in Mary Magdalene, who believed at once. Through his doubting, he came actually
to handle the holes of the Wounds, and thereby closed up any wound of doubt in
our hearts. Now confirm to our minds the trustworthiness of the fact that our
Lord did indeed rise again from the dead, it is well for us to remark one of
the statements of Luke Acts i. 4. "Eating together with them, He commanded them that they should not
depart from Jerusalem and a little afterward: "While they beheld, He was
taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight." Consider these
words, note well these mysteries. After "eating together with them He was
taken up." He ate and ascended: that the fact of His eating might show the
reality of the Body in Which He went up. But Mark telleth us that before the
Lord ascended into heaven, He upbraided His disciples; with their unbelief and
hardness of heart. From this I know not why we should gather, but that the Lord
then upbraided His disciples, for whom He was about to be parted in the body,
to the end that the words which He spoke unto them as He left them might be the
deeper imprinted on their hearts. When then, He had rebuked the hardness of
their heart, what command did He give them? Let us hear. "Go ye into all
the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Was the Holy Gospel,
then my brethren, to be preached to thing insensate, or to brute beasts, that
the Lord said to His disciples: "Preach the Gospel to every
creature"? Nay, but by the words "every creature" we must
understand man, in whom are combined qualities of all creatures. Being he hath
in common with stones, life in common with trees, feeling in common with
beasts, understanding in common with angels. If, then, man hath something in
common with every creature, man is to a certain extent every creature. The
Gospel, then, if it be preached to man only, is preached to every creature.
OFFERTORY- Psalm 46: 6
God is ascended with a shout, and the Lord with the
sound of a trumpet. Alleluia.
SECRET
Receive, O Lord: the gifts we offer up to Thee, for
the glorious Ascension of Thy Son: and mercifully grant that we may be freed
from present perils and attain unto everlasting life. Through the same Lord
Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the
Holy Ghost, one God.
COMMUNICANTES FOR THE ASCENSION
And keeping the most holy day on
which Thine only-begotten Son our Lord set at the right hand of Thy glory the
substance of our, frail human nature, which He had taken to Himself and also
reverencing the memory, first, of the glorious, ever Virgin Mary, Mother of our
Lord and God Jesus Christ: as also of the blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter
and Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew,
Simon and Thaddeus: Linus, Cletus, Clement, Xystus, Cornelius, Cyprian,
Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, and of all Thy Saints,
through whose merits and prayers, grant that we may in all things be defended
by the help of Thy protection. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
COMMUNION - Psalm 67: 33-34
Sing ye to the Lord, Who mounteth above the Heaven of
heavens to the East, alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION
Grant to us, we beseech Thee: almighty and merciful
God, that we may obtain the invisible effects of that which we have shared by
communion in visible Mysteries. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son,
Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God.
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