Prayer for Ascension Day

Salvador Dalí, The Ascension of Christ, 1958. Oil on canvas

O God, You have glorified our victorious Savior

with a triumphant resurrection from the dead,

and ascension into heaven,

where He sits at your right hand.

Grant, we ask You,

that His triumphs and glories may ever shine in our eyes

to make us see more clearly through His sufferings,

and more courageously endure our own;

being assured by His example,

that if we endeavor to live and die like Him,

for the cause of Your love in ourselves and others,

You will raise our dead bodies again,

and conforming them to His glorious body,

call us above the clouds,

and give us possession of Your everlasting kingdom.

Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer (Volume Three: The Great Fifty Days).

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