Concordantia caritatis – The Ascension

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Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 115v
THE DAY OF THE LORD’S ASCENSION
SUSCIPIT HUNC NUBES FAVET OMNIS CELICA PUBES : CRESCENS SALUS EIT NON CREDENS PACE CAREBIT
ASCENDIT SUPER CAELUM CAELI AD ORIENTEM
Qui ascendit super caelum caeli, ad orientem : ecce dabit voci suae vocem virtutis.
Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power.
  Psalms 67.34
ASCENDIT ITER PANDENS ANTER EOS
Ascendet enim pandens iter ante eos : divident, et transibunt portam, et ingredientur per eam : et transibit rex eorum coram eis, et Dominus in capite eorum.
For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them
  Micheas 2.13
ASCENDET SUPER NUBEM LEVEM
Onus Aegypti. Ecce Dominus ascendet super nubem levem, et ingredietur Aegyptum, et commovebuntur simulacra Aegypti a facie ejus, et cor Aegypti tabescet in medio ejus,
The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof
Isaias 19.1
QUI AEDIFICAT IN CAELO ASCENSIONEM SUAM
Qui aedificat in caelo ascensionem suam, et fasciculum suum super terram fundavit; qui vocat aquas maris, et effundit eas super faciem terrae : Dominus nomen ejus.
He that buildeth his ascension in heaven, and hath founded his bundle upon the earth: who calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth, the Lord is his name
  Amos 9.6
ENOCH TRANSLATUM DOMINUS TULIT IN PARADISUM
Genesis 5.22
P[??]A POPULI
HI ET EMISSARIUS RELICTA SECUM TULIT HIRTUS
PANTHE MORES DRACO VITAT ET EIUS ODIES
CAPREA IVIT TUTA LOCA VISIBUS EST ACUTA

The Ascension

The Stuttgart Psalter, folio 22r
Annus Dierus Sanctorum
Psallite Domino, qui ascendit super coelos.
Sing ye to the Lord, who ascendeth upon the heavens.
> Psalm 67.5
Sic veniet, quemadmodus vidistis eum euntes in Coelus.
He shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.
Acts 1.11

Acts 1.1-11

Mark 16.14-20

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Sermons

Twenty-Ninth Homily of Gregory the Great (translated in Herbert)

Homilies Of Feasts And Sundays By Catholic Church Fathers by D. G. Hubert (Washbourne, 1901).

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Sermons for the Sundays and Some Festivals of the Year  by Thomas White.

Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to which are added the lives of many saints by Leonard Goffiné (Pustet, 1880).

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays (Benziger, 1896).

The Catholic Pulpit: Containing a Sermon for Every Sunday and Holiday in the Year and for Good Friday (Murphy, 1851).

Readings for the Sundays and Holy Days of the Church’s Year (Bosworth, 1881).

Short Discourses for all the Sundays in the Year According to the Mind & Method of the Catechism of the Council of Trent by John McQuirk (St. Paul’s Library, 1908).

Meditations

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon (Benziger, 1907).

A Wreath of Feasts for the Little Ones

Art

Concordantia caritatis, Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 115v

Index of Medieval Art – Christ Sending out the Apostles, Ascension, Apostles Going forth to Preach

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Ascension

The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist; and Other Persons of the Old and New Testament by Mrs. Jameson (Longmans, 1881) – Ascension.

The Visual Commentary on Scripture

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Customs

Feast Day Cookbook

Hymn, “O Thou Eternal King Most High!”