Introit: Psalm lxiii. 3

    Thou hast protected me, O God, from the assembly of the malignant, alleluia: from the multitude of the workers of iniquity, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to Thee: free my soul from the fear of the enemy. ℣. Glory be. Thou hast protected...

Collect

    O God, who hast hallowed this day by the triumph of Thy blessed martyr Venantius: graciously hear the prayers of Thy people, and grant that we who venerate his merits, may imitate his constancy in the faith. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of the Ascension

Collect

    Grant, we beseech Thee, almighty God, that we who believe Thine only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into heaven, may ourselves dwell in spirit amid heavenly things. Through the same Lord.

Epistle: Wisdom v. 1-5

    Lesson from the book of Wisdom. Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them and taken away their labors. These seeing it, shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the suddenness of their unexpected salvation, saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit: These are they whom we had some time in derision and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness and their end without honor; behold how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.

Gradual: Psalms cxi. 1-2

    Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he delighteth exceedingly in His commandments, ℣. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous shall be blessed.

Alleluia: Psalms xx. 4

    Alleluia, alleluia. ℣. O Lord, Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones. Alleluia.

Gospel: John xv. 1-7

    + Continuation of the holy Gospel according the Apostle John. At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: I am the true vine and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit, He will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, He will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you, Abide in Me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you the branches: he abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without Me you can do nothing. If any one abide not in Me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither, and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth. If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you.

Offertory: Psalm lxxxviii. 6

    The heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord, and Thy truth in the Church of the saints, alleluia, alleluia.

Secret

    May the merits of blessed Venantius render, almighty God, this our oblation well-pleasing in Thy sight; that being helped by his prayers, we may one day be called to share in his glory. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of the Ascension

Secret

    Accept, O Lord, the gifts we offer Thee in memory of the glorious Ascension of Thy Son; and graciously grant that being delivered from present dangers, we may attain unto eternal life. Through the same our Lord.

Communion: Psalm lxiii. 11

    The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in Him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised, alleluia, alleluia.

Postcommunion

    Most humbly we entreat of Thee, O Lord, that the prayers of blessed Venantius, Thy martyr, may obtain Thy pardon and grace for us, whom Thou hast fed with the Sacrament of everlasting life. Through our Lord.

Commemoration of the Ascension

Postcommunion

    Grant us, we beseech Thee, almighty and merciful God, that what we have received in visible mysteries may profit us by its invisible effect. Through our Lord.

+ Taken from St. Andrew Daily Missal, by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., Imprimi Potest 11-18-1945 P. Joannes Delacroix, O.S.B., Imprimatur 11-22-1945 Joseph Van Der Meersch