Happy Feast of the Ascension!
A fantasia on the 46th Psalm by Edward Taylor (c.1646–1729), set to music by Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), and sung by the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, under Andrew Nethsinga.
God is gone up with a triumphant shout:
The Lord with sounding trumpets' melodies:
Sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praises out,
Unto our King sing praise seraphic-wise!
Lift up your heads, ye lasting doors, they sing,
And let the King of Glory enter in.
Methinks I see Heaven's sparkling courtiers fly
In flakes of glory down, him to attend,
And hear heart-cramping notes of melody
Surround his chariot as it did ascend:
Mixing their music, making ev'ry string
More to enravish, as they this tune sing.
A fantasia on the 46th Psalm by Edward Taylor (c.1646–1729), set to music by Gerald Finzi (1901–1956), and sung by the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, under Andrew Nethsinga.
God is gone up with a triumphant shout:
The Lord with sounding trumpets' melodies:
Sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praises out,
Unto our King sing praise seraphic-wise!
Lift up your heads, ye lasting doors, they sing,
And let the King of Glory enter in.
Methinks I see Heaven's sparkling courtiers fly
In flakes of glory down, him to attend,
And hear heart-cramping notes of melody
Surround his chariot as it did ascend:
Mixing their music, making ev'ry string
More to enravish, as they this tune sing.
Jimmy Akin has many interesting to things about the Ascension, which is one of the harder incidents in the Gospel to appreciate (in my experience).
ReplyDeletehttps://jimmyakin.com/2017/05/understanding-the-ascension-of-jesus.html
Thanks for that! Yes, perhaps because it is so hard to picture or imagine, being so unearthy and unearthly. Nobody actually saw Christ's Resurrection, but His Ascension was in plain view.
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