Notice: A Fuller Post on Ascension Coming Soon

May 2, 2008

I hope you appreciate the Ascension hymn I’ve posted. I’ll have time to give a fuller post regarding the Lord’s Ascension and our share therein pretty soon. I think I’ll be using William Milligan who wrote in the 19th century thus this will be part of the occasional “Sons of the Fathers” series. So often it is swept aside but I think it is vital that we consider Ascension as a monumental aspect of the reality of faith. I hope you’ll tune in.

See you soon, and many blessings,

Meg

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Hymn for Ascension: He Mounts to Where the Azure Shines

May 2, 2008

και την προσ υψος ουρανου θειαν ανληψιν He Mounts to Where the Azure Shines

He mounts to where the azure shines,

Triumphant as the light;

Till, past the glowing gates, the Christ

Is lost to mortal sight.

And now, amid the bliss of heaven,

The Father’s throne He shares;

And gems of radiant beauty deck

The sparkling crown He wears.

Remember, Lord, Thy promise made

When hearts in sadness pined,

And send the Comforter to soothe

The sorrows of mankind;
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And as the lingering ages pass,

To teach the souls of men

That they may hail the Christ when He

In glory comes again.

All praise to Thee, Eternal God,

And to the Son be given,

Whose glory, darkly veiled on earth,

Now fills the light of heaven;

And to the Holy Comforter,

By whom our lives are blest,

Be praise, by every waiting heart,

For evermore expressed.

 (transl. by John Brownlie in Hymns of the Early Church. Just see ccel.org under author “Brownlie”)
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