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Ascension - Lauds - Acts 1:1-2

Proper text for the Ascension of Our Lord, celebrated forty days after Easter. This Class I feast commemorates Christ's bodily return to the Father's right hand. The Office texts emphasize Christ's glorified humanity entering heaven, his ongoing intercession as High Priest, and the promise of his return in glory.

SCRIPTVRA
Acts 1:1-2
LATINE
Primum quidem sermonem feci de omnibus, o Theophile, quae coepit Jesus facere et docere usque in diem, qua praecipiens Apostolis per Spiritum Sanctum, quos elegit assumptus est. R. Deo gratias.
ENGLISH
The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus began to do and to teach, until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up. R. Thanks be to God.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
Ascension - Lauds - Acts 1:1-2
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
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