Ascension Day

The Feast Of The Ascension Of Our Lord

Ascension Day, set between Easter and Pentecost, is a major Feast or Solemnity within the Church year.  It is the day on which we commemorate the Ascension of Jesus into heaven and his departure from his disciples.  The story is told in St Luke’s Gospel (Luke 24.44-53), where Jesus withdraws from the disciples, blesses them and is carried up into heaven.  The disciples then worship Jesus and ‘return to Jerusalem with great joy.’

We celebrate with a Sung Eucharist for Ascension Day on 18 May 2023 at 8.00pm

Collect for the Feast of the Ascension
Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that as we believe your only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ
to have ascended into the heavens,
so we in heart and mind may also ascend
and with him continually dwell;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.