Jesus said to the disciples,
"...you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and you will be my witnesses
in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth.”

And when he had said these things,
as they were looking on, he was lifted up,
and a cloud took him out of their sight.
And while they were gazing into heaven as he went,
behold, two men stood by them in white robes,

and said,
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven?
This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven,
will come in the same way
as you saw him go into heaven.”

Acts 1:8-11

By your Gift, the Holy Ghost, we are set aflame and borne aloft,
and the fire within us carries us upward.
'Our hearts are set on an upward journey,' as we sing the 'song of ascents'.
It is your fire, your good fire, that sets us aflame and carries us upward.
For our journey leads us upward to the peace of the heavenly Jerusalem;
it was a 'welcome sound when I heard them saying,
We will go into the house of the Lord.'

 

St Augustine, Confessions, Bk XIII, para 9

 

"The Ascension of Christ proclaims and celebrates our spiritual destiny
as sons and daughters of God by adoption and grace...
“Our conversation is in heaven,” [Php 3:20]
and in the Church’s liturgy,
we find ourselves engaged in precisely that conversation,
“with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven”. 
Here, in liturgy, all the arts conspire to solicit mind and heart,
to wean the soul from worldliness. 
A door is opened into heaven."

 

Robert Crouse, A Sermon for Ascension

"...I am amazed that I should rise so high,
beyond the lightness of the air and fire."

She turned her eyes to me then with a sigh
of pity, as a mother in distress
whose child is ill and talks deliriously,
So she made matters plain:

"...No more amazement should it bring to you
that you ascend, than if a mountain stream
should tumble rushing to the plains below.
But it would be a cause of just surprise
if, free of every bar, you should remain
like a still flame on earth, and not arise."

Then to the heavens she turned her gaze again.

Dante and Beatrice ascending into the heavens,
Dante's Paradiso, Canto I, lines 98-103 and 136-142

thy kingdom come...

In the Autumn of 2022 AD, a new Anglican Church (Diocese in Europe, Church of England) opened
in the region of Het Gooi in the Netherlands with services in English.
We are a daughter church of All Saints Anglican Church in Amersfoort, though independent in our vision and ongoing ministry.

Our worship services are in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Hilversum (Boomberglaan 6, Hilversum).
For services times please click here.

If you have questions, or would like to receive email Newsletters please fill in our contact form on our Contact Us page.

Where to find us...

There are free parking spaces on the church property and free parking in the streets next to the church on Sundays.  It is a 17 minute walk from Hilversum Train Station.
(On Sunday morning, Bus 1 gets you from Hilversum Train Station to within a 4 minute walk of the church.)

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Worship Address: Adventist Church, Boomberglaan 6, Hilversum

Mailing Address:  Robijn 13, 3893 EN Zeewolde

Contact: (+31) 06 124 104 31 revdgphillips@hotmail.com

Donations:  NL75 INGB 0709 7677 49 (t.n.v. All Saints Anglican Church Amersfoort.)
(This All Saints account is designated for Ascension funds only.)

or you can use the Givt App:

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Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1,2