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BLESS and praise Thee, O most sweet Jesus Christ, and on this holy day devoutly do I thank Thee for having (after Thy departure from the Apostles and Thy entrance with the Angels into Heaven) sent two Angels clad in white, messengers of the Court of Heaven, to comfort Thy bereaved ones who were looking up after Thee into Heaven, but were unable to follow Thee. " Ye men of Galilee" they said to them, " Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to Heaven? Why marvel you at this astounding miracle, the like of which was never seen? With God all things are possible; God, made Man, has gone up with a shout, even as in the psalm it was foretold of Him. Be it yours therefore to carry the tidings, and to bear witness, to others, of the things which you have heard and seen, even as it was commanded you. This Jesus Who is taken up from you into Heaven, shall so come as you have seen Him going into Heaven. But He Who till now, in order that He might lead to the realms above those who humbly followed Him upon earth, here showed Himself to you as One meek and lowly, will then come in great power and glory to judge the living and the dead."

O my Jesus, Whom I love above all things, remember, I beseech Thee, in Thy glory, me, poor sinner that I am. Remember and have mercy on me, left a stranger and an exile in this vale of tears, mourning and weeping amid the many