ASCENSION
Evening Prayer II
God, come to my assistance.
- Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
- as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.
Amen. Alleluia.
HYMN
The head that once was crowned with thorns
Is crowned with glory now:
A royal diadem adorns
The mighty victor’s brow.
The highest place that heav’n affords
Is surely his by right:
The King of kings and Lord of lords,
And heav’n’s eternal light.
The joy he is of all above,
The joy to all below:
To ev’ryone he shows his love,
And grants his name to know.
To them the cross, with all its shame,
With all its grace, is giv’n:
Their name an everlasting name.
Their joy the joy of heav’n.
The cross he bore is life and health,
Though shame and death to him;
His people’s hope, his people’s wealth,
Their everlasting theme.
Melody: St. Magnus (Nottingham) C.M.; Music: Jeremiah Clarke, 1659-1707;
Text: Thomas Kelly, 1769-1854, slightly adapted
PSALMODY
Antiphon 1: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father, alleluia.
Psalm 110:1-5,7
Dixit Dominus
- The Lord's revelation to my Master:
"Sit on my right:
your foes I will put beneath your feet."
- The Lord will yield from Zion
your scepter of power:
rule in the midst of all your foes.
- A prince from the day of your birth
on the holy mountains;
from the womb before the dawn I begot you.
- The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.
"You are a priest for ever,
a priest like Melchizedeck of old."
- The Master standing at your right hand
will shatter kings in the day of his wrath.
- He shall drink from the stream by the wayside
and therefore he shall lift up his head.
Antiphon 1: He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father, alleluia.
Antiphon 2: God ascends to shouts of joy, the Lord to the blast of trumpets, alleluia.
Psalm 47
Omnes gentes, plaudite
- All peoples, clap your hands,
cry to God with shouts of joy!
- For the Lord, the Most High, we must fear,
great king over all the earth.
- He subdues peoples under us
and nations under our feet.
- Our inheritance, our glory, is from him,
given to Jacob out of love.
- God goes up with shouts of joy;
the Lord goes up with trumpet blast.
- Sing praise for God, sing praise,
sing praise to our king, sing praise.
- God is king of all the earth,
sing praise with all your skill.
- God is king over the nations;
God reigns on his holy throne.
- The princes of the people are assembled
with the people of Abraham's God.
The rulers of the earth belong to God,
to God who reigns over all.
Antiphon 2: God ascends to shouts of joy, the Lord to the blast of trumpets, alleluia.
Antiphon 3: Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him, alleluia.
Canticle – Revelation 11:17-18; 12:10b-12a
We praise you, the Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was.
You have assumed your great power,
you have begun your reign.The nations have raged in anger,
but then came your day of wrath
and the moment to judge the dead:
The time to reward your servants the prophets
and the holy ones who revere you,
the great and the small alike.Now have salvation and power come,
the reign of our God and the authority
of his Anointed One.
For the accuser of our brothers is cast out,
who night and day accused them before God.They defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
love for life did not deter them from death.
So rejoice, you heavens,
and you that dwell therein!Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
Antiphon 3: Now the Son of Man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him, alleluia.
READING
The reason why Christ died for sins once for all, the just man for the sake of the unjust, was that he might lead you to God. He was put to death insofar as fleshly existence goes, but was given life in the realm of the spirit. He went to heaven and is at God’s right hand, with angelic rulers and powers subjected to him. - 1 Peter 3:18, 22
RESPONSORY
I am ascending to my Father and your Father, alleluia, alleluia.
- I am ascending to my Father and your Father, alleluia, alleluia.
To my God and your God,
- alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
- I am ascending to my Father and your Father, alleluia, alleluia.
INTERCESSIONS
In joy of spirit let us acclaim Christ, who sits at the right hand of
the Father:
Lord Jesus, you are the King of glory.
King of glory, you took with you our frail humanity to be glorified in heaven; remove the sins of the world,
- and restore us to the innocence which was ours before the Fall.
You came down from heaven on a pilgrimage of love,
- grant that we may take the same path to your presence.
You promised to draw all things to yourself,
- do not allow any one of us to be separated from your body.
Where you have gone before us in glory,
- may we follow you in mind and heart.
- True God, we await your coming as our judge,
may we see the vision of your glory and your mercy in company with all the dead.
Our Father...
God our Father,
make us joyful in the ascension of your Son Jesus Christ.
May we follow him into the new creation,
for his ascension is our glory and our hope.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
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