Ascension

DV I'll speak about the ascension tomorrow at our camp training day and at the 8am and 9:30am on Sunday, but not (so much) at the 11am Pet Service. I'm planning to get Glen's phrase in somewhere: "Jesus, our friend in high places" and I'm also tempted to read out this from Revd Dr Steve Jeffrey.

The festival without which there would be no festivals

Ascension Day... "that festival which confirms the grace of all the festivals together, without which the profitableness of every festival would have perished. For unless the Saviour had ascended into heaven, his nativity would have come to nothing ... and his passion would have borne no fruit for us, and his most holy resurrection would have been useless."

 Attributed to St Augustine - bonus points to anyone who has a citation

HT: Philip Robertson on The Face Book

Ascension Day

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,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.