A.D. 1997 May 8

Ascension Day

Felipe Gil de Mena, *Elijah Taken up into the Air in a Chariot of Fire*, 17th century, National Sculpture Museum, Valladolid.

Collects

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 Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.