Double of I Class with privileged Octave 3
 

INTROIT

Viri Galilaei (Acts 1)

  Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Alleluia:
  In like manner as ye have seen him going up into heaven,
  So shall he come again.
  Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.  §

(Psalm 47) O clap your hands together, all ye O sing unto God with the voice of melody.
Glory be ...
As it was ...

(Repeat to §.)

GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with him continually dwell, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

THE EPISTLE

Acts 1.1–11

IN THOSE DAYS: In the first book, O The-oph'ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.  To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.  And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me, for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."  So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"  He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.  But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Sama'ria and to the end of the earth."  And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.  And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

ALLELUIA

Alleluia:
Alleluia.
(Psalm 47) God is gone up with a merry noise,
People  And the Lord with the sound of the trump.  Alleluia.

(Psalm 68) The Lord is among them as in the holy place of Sinai,
People  He is gone up on high; he hath led captivity captive.
All:     Alleluia.
 

THE GOSPEL

Luke 24.49–53

AT THAT TIME:  Jesus said, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until you are endued with power from on high."  And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.  While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.  And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple blessing God.

§ When the Gospel has been said, the Paschal Candle shall be put out, nor shall it be lighted again, save on Whitsun Eve at the blessing of the Font.  The Creed is said.

OFFERTORY  Psalm 47

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

SECRET

Accept, O Lord, we pray thee, the oblations which, in remembrance of the glorious Ascension of thy Son, we do offer unto thee: and mercifully grant that we, being delivered from all perils in this life present, may attain in the end unto life everlasting.  Through the same.

PREFACE and CANON of the Ascension, which shall be said until Whitsun Eve, exclusive.

COMMUNION  Psalm 68

Sing ye to the Lord, who ascended to the heaven of heavens, to the sunrising, alleluia.

POSTCOMMUNION

Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty and merciful God: that we which have outwardly received these holy mysteries, may inwardly be made partakers of the benefit of the same.  Through.

§ Within the Octave of the Ascension Mass is said of the Ascension, unless a double or semidouble Feast occur, in which case Mass is said of the Feast, with a Commemoration of the Octave.  But on a Simple, only a Commemoration of it is made.  After the Collect for the Day, the second Collect is said of St. Mary, O Lord God Almighty, and the third for the Church, as given in the Seasonal Prayers after  Low Sunday.

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