The Venerable Bede, Monk at Jarrow, Scholar, Historian, 735
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, 709

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Exciting Holiness
Ecclesiasticus 39.1-10
Psalm 78.1-4a, 5, 6a, 7
1 Corinthians 1.18-25
John 21.20-25

Holy Communion
Acts 17.15, 22-18.1
Psalm 148.1-2, 11-end
John 16.12-15

Morning Prayer
Psalms 132, 133 (or) 119.105-128
Numbers 17.1-11
Luke 7.1-10

Evening Prayer on the Eve of Ascension Day
Psalms 15, 24
2 Samuel 23.1-5
Colossians 2.20 - 3.4

Additional Weekday Lectionary
At Evening Prayer the readings for the Eve of Ascension Day are used. At other services, the following readings are used
Isaiah 43.1-13
Titus 2.11 - 3.8

Collect

God our maker,
whose Son Jesus Christ gave to your servant Bede
grace to drink in with joy the word
that leads us to know you and to love you:
in your goodness
grant that we also may come at length to you,
the source of all wisdom,
and stand before your face;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Post Communion

Merciful God,
who gave such grace to your servant Bede
that he served you with singleness of heart
and loved you above all things:
help us, whose communion with you
has been renewed in this sacrament,
to forsake all that holds us back from following Christ
and to grow into his likeness from glory to glory;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Collect on the Eve of Ascension Day

Grant, we pray, almighty God,
that as we believe your only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ
to have ascended into the heavens,
so we in heart and mind may also ascend
and with him continually dwell;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.