Fac nos, omnípotens Deus, sanctis exsultáre
gáudiis, et pia gratiárum actióne lætári, quia Christi Fílii tui ascénsio est
nostra provéctio, et, quo procéssit glória cápitis, eo spes vocátur et
córporis.
Make us, O almighty God, to rejoice with holy joys
and to be glad with due thanksgiving for the Ascension of Christ your Son,
which is our advancement, and where the head has gone before, there also is
called the hope of the body.
This collect is a new composition, but based on
Sermon 73, 4 of St. Leo the Great:
"since the Ascension of Christ is our ascension, and where the glory of the head has gone before, thither is the hope of the body summoned, let us exult, beloved brethren, with befitting joys, and rejoice with devout thanksgiving. To-day, not only have we been confirmed in the possession of Paradise, but in Christ have even penetrated to the heights of heaven."
"since the Ascension of Christ is our ascension, and where the glory of the head has gone before, thither is the hope of the body summoned, let us exult, beloved brethren, with befitting joys, and rejoice with devout thanksgiving. To-day, not only have we been confirmed in the possession of Paradise, but in Christ have even penetrated to the heights of heaven."
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