INTROIT

Exaudi, Domine (Psalm 27)

  Hearken unto my voice, O Lord, when I cry unto thee, alleluia:
  My heart hath talked of thee, Seek ye my face;
  Thy face, Lord, will I seek:
  O hide not thou thy face from me, alleluia, alleluia.  §

The Lord is my light and my salvation:
Whom then shall I fear?
Glory be ...
As it was ...
 

(Repeat to §.)

O GOD, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven; We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

Commemoration of the Ascension only.

THE EPISTLE

I Peter 4.7–11

DEARLY BELOVED:  The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.  And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.  Use hospitality one to another without grudging.  As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.  If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.  Amen.

ALLELUIA

Alleluia:
Alleluia.
(Psalm 47) God reigneth over the heathen:
People  God sitteth upon his holy seat.  Alleluia.

(John 14) I will not leave you comfortless:
People  I go away and come again unto you, and your heart shall rejoice.
All:       Alleluia.
 

THE GOSPEL

John 15.26–16.4a

AT THAT TIME: Jesus said: "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:  And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.  These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.  And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them.

OFFERTORY  Psalm 47

God is gone up with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump, alleluia.

SECRET

Grant, O Lord, that this spotless sacrifice may cleanse us from all our sins: and shed forth within our souls the strength of thy heavenly grace.  Through.

COMMUNION  St. John 17

Father, while I was with them in the world, I kept those that thou gavest me, alleluia: and now I come to thee: I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil, alleluia, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

O Lord, who hast vouchsafed to satisfy us with the sacred gifts of thy bounty: grant, we beseech thee, that we may ever continue to render thanks unto thee for the same.  Through.

On the Octave Day of the Ascension Mass is said as on the day, with one Collect only, unless a simple Feast occur, or one treated as such.

§ On the Friday after the Octave of the Ascension, if it be not a double or semidouble Feast, Mass is said of the preceding Sunday, with Commemoration of St. Mary, and of the Church, as given after Low Sunday.  A simple is only commemorated.  And the Creed is not said.
 

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