A Solemn Mass will be sung for the Ascension of the Lord on Thursday 14 May at 6:30pm. A said lunchtime Mass will also be celebrated at 12:45pm.

In the mystery of the Ascension, the Church rejoices in Christ’s triumph and exaltation at the right hand of the Father. Ascending into the heavens, the Lord does not abandon His people, but draws the hearts and minds of the faithful towards the heavenly kingdom, where He reigns in glory and continually intercedes for us.

The Ascension of the Lord is a Holy Day of Obligation, on which the faithful are obliged to participate in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. All are warmly invited to assist at either Mass.

The evening Solemn Mass will be celebrated according to Divine Worship: The Missal (Ordinariate Use).

Music list:
Introit: Peter Philips – Ascendit Deus in jubilatione
Setting: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Spatzenmesse
Psalm: 47
Creed: Merbecke
Anthem: Gerald Finzi – God is gone up
Hymns:
Eternal Monarch, King most high (NEH 128(ii))
Hail the day that sees him rise (NEH 130)
The head that once was crowned with thorns (NEH 134)

Collect:
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 Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.