Church Music Corner › The Ascension of the Lord 2025 [loc-000U]

Viri Galilæi, quid admirámini aspiciéntes in cælum? Allelúia: quemádmodum vidístis eum ascendéntem in cælum, ita véniet, allelúia, allelúia, allelúia.

Our choir at All Saints Ainslie was the only one in Canberra, it seems, that actually sang at a service on Ascension day, rather than the subsequent Sunday. We sang Christopher Tye's The Eternal Gates.

Th'eternal gates lift up their heads,

The doors are open wide;

The King of Glory is gone up

unto his Father's side.

And ever on our earthly path

A gleam of glory lies;

A light still breaks from behind the cloud

that veils thee from our eyes.