The Propers for the Ascension of Our Lord can be found below and as a PDF here: Ascension of Our Lord Propers.
INTROIT (Acts 1. 11)
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. 46. 2. O clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God, with the voice of exultation. ℣. 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.—Ye men of Galilee…
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 the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Who with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth, God, world without end.
LESSON From the Acts of the Apostles, 1. 1-11.
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
Alleluia, alleluia. (Ps. 46. 6.) God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Alleluia. (Ps. 67. 18, 19.) The Lord is in Sinai, in the holy place; ascending on high He hath led captivity captive. Alleluia.
GOSPEL Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. Mark, 16. 14-20.
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.
OFFERTORY (Psalm 46. 6)
ACCEPT, 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 to everlasting life. Through the same Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord …
PREFACE FOR ASCENSION
IT is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, at all times and in all places to give thanks to Thee, holy Lord, Father almighty, eternal God: through Christ our Lord. Who after His Resurrection appeared openly to all His disciples and in the sight of them all was taken up into heaven, that He might make us sharers in His own Divinity. And therefore, with Angels and Archangels, with Thrones and Dominations, and with all the hosts of the heavenly army, we sing a hymn to Thy glory, evermore saying: — Sanctus.
COMMUNION (Ps. 67. 33, 34)
SING ye to the Lord, who mounteth above the heaven of heavens to the East, alleluia.
POSTCOMMUNION
GRANT us, we beseech Thee, almighty and merciful God, that we may obtain the invisible effects of what we have received under visible signs. Through our Lord, Jesus Christ …
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