Happy Ascension Day!

Wishing a very happy feast of the Ascension to all readers!

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

Psalm 46 (47): 1-2, 5-8, set to stirring music by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Happy Ascension Day!

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.

Happy Ascension Day

Wishing a very happy feast of the Ascension to all readers!

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

Psalm 46 (47): 1-2, 5-8, set to music by the inimitable Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Ascension Day

Happy feast of the Ascension!  I think some music is called for: here is Gerald Finzi’s anthem God is gone up (op. 27, no. 2):

Don’t forget that Easter carries on until Pentecost (Whitsun), so if you haven’t been feasting since the Triduum as energetically as you fasted in Lent, you’ve been doing it wrong!