Saturday, August 13, 2016
Solemnity of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary –
Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
REVELATION 11:19,
12:1-6, 10
19 Then the sanctuary of
God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then
came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.
1 Now a great sign
appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on
her head a crown of twelve stars.
2 She was pregnant, and
in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.
3 Then a second sign
appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten
horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet.
4 Its tail swept a third
of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped
in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could
eat the child as soon as it was born.
5 The woman was
delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron
sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne,
6 while the woman
escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked
after for twelve hundred and sixty days.
10 Then I heard a voice shout
from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God,
and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our
brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 44:10-12, 16
10 you leave us to fall
back before the enemy, those who hate us plunder us at will.
11 You hand us over like
sheep for slaughter, you scatter us among the nations,
12 you sell your people
for a trifle and make no profit on the sale.
16 from the sound of
insult and abuse, from the sight of hatred and vengefulness.
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS
15:20-26
20 In fact, however,
Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have
fallen asleep.
21 As it was by one man
that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead.
22 Just as all die in
Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life;
23 but all of them in
their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who
belong to him.
24 After that will come
the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished
every principality, every ruling force and power.
25 For he is to be king
until he has made his enemies his footstool,
26 and the last of the
enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his
feet.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 1:39-56
39 Mary set out at that
time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah.
40 She went into
Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.
41 Now it happened that
as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leapt in her womb and
Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
42 She gave a loud cry
and said, 'Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of
your womb.
43 Why should I be
honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?
44 Look, the moment your
greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy.
45 Yes, blessed is she
who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.'
46 And Mary said: My
soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
47 and my spirit
rejoices in God my Saviour;
48 because he has looked
upon the humiliation of his servant. Yes, from now onwards all generations will
call me blessed,
49 for the Almighty has
done great things for me. Holy is his name,
50 and his faithful love
extends age after age to those who fear him.
51 He has used the power
of his arm, he has routed the arrogant of heart.
52 He has pulled down
princes from their thrones and raised high the lowly.
53 He has filled the
starving with good things, sent the rich away empty.
54 He has come to the
help of Israel his servant, mindful of his faithful love
55 -according to the
promise he made to our ancestors -- of his mercy to Abraham and to his
descendants for ever.
56 Mary stayed with her
some three months and then went home.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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