Ascension Thursday

 

For those in the Ordinariate Ascension Thursday still comes on a Thursday, i.e., today.   Herewith today's 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, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

1Peter5 has a timely piece today on Ascension Thursday and the "Forgotten Customs" thereof.  For the most part the author discusses things from the Roman liturgical treasury that our hierarchical masters have decided are surplus to requirements.  But there is much else, too.  There's even a paragraph or two on superstitions to be wary of, e.g., don't go mending a garment on this day.  Apparently a garment that has had a needle touched to it on Ascension Day is sure to be struck by lightning.  Well, I wasn't going to anyway.   (My last attempts at garment mending occurred in my under-graduate years which was a long time ago.  A very long time ago.  And they were not very successful.)  But I'll bare it in mind.

Oh, yes.  Almost forgot.  You can find the article by clicking here and you can click the picture above and make it far too large for the screen.  But it will make the detail clearer.

And speaking of pictures and almost forgetting -- again -- Fr Z has an Ascension Thursday post up today with the lovely medieval pictures of the Ascension.  You can find that here.