We're heading up this Thursday, all the way to the right hand of the Father: It's Ascension Thursday. It's a close to Our Lord's Passion but an opening to the coming of the Holy Spirit. Veni, Sancte Spiritus!

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Latin and English Propers here: https://bit.ly/2LIEZrP
English propers below:
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Introit:
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

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...

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.

Offertory Verse:
God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of a trumpet, alleluia.

Secret:
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 our Lord…

Preface for the 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 Domina- tions, and with all the hosts of the heavenly army, we sing a hymn to Thy glory, evermore saying: — Sanctus.

Communion Verse:
Sing ye to the Lord, who mounteth above the heaven of heavens to the East, alleluia. 

Postcommunion Prayer:
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...

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