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The collect for today, Ascension-Day, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
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 continuously dwell, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
For the Epistle: Acts 1:1-11
The Gospel: St Mark 16:14-20
Artwork: Rembrandt, The Ascension, 1636, Oil on canvas, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
