1. We now rejoice that Christ this day
   Ascended unto heaven;
   To God our heartfelt thanks we pay,
   And pray His help be given:
   For we poor sinners here beneath
   Are dwelling still ’mid woe and death.
   And have no hope nor comfort.
   Alleluia, alleluia!

2. Thank God that now the way is made
   And open now is heaven;
   Through Him on whom our help was laid,
   The bolts have now been riven.
   Who knoweth this is glad at heart,
   And swift prepares him to depart
   Where Christ is gone before us.
   Alleluia, alleluia!

3. Who follows not, nor does His will,
   Is in his faith deluded;
   All who their fleshly lusts fulfill
   From heav’n will be excluded.
   For if our faith is right and true,
   Then our life also must congrue
   With th’ will of God in heaven.
   Alleluia, alleluia!

4. Our own ascension doth begin
   When we find God our Father
   And flee the worldly paths of sin
   And with His children gather.
   For He looks down, and they look up:
   They feel His love, they live in hope,
   Until they meet their Savior.
   Alleluia, alleluia!

5. Then will that joyous Day be blest,
   When God to heav’n will take us,
   And like His Son, whom we confessed
   While here on earth, will make us;
   Then joy and cheer o’er us will flood,
   Forever with the highest Good:
   God grant that we obtain it!
   Alleluia, alleluia!

Auf diesen Tag bedenken wir
Johann Zwick, 1538
Tr. composite:
Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858, p. 46, alt.
August Crull, in The Lutheran Watchman, Vol. 2, 1867, p. 78, alt.
Revised by Christopher J. Neuendorf, 2021