Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Vigil Mass

Official Translation

Reading 1 – 1 Chronicles 15.3-4, 15-16; 16.1-2

David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem,
to bring up the Lord’s Ark
to the place which he had prepared for it.
David gathered together
the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
the children of the Levites bore the Ark of God
on their shoulders with its poles,
as Moses commanded according to the Lord’s word.
David spoke to the chief of the Levites
to appoint their brothers the singers,
with instruments of music:
stringed instruments and harps and cymbals,
sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

They brought in the ark of God,
and set it in the middle of the tent
that David had pitched for it.
They offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before God.
When David had finished offering
the burnt offering and the peace offerings,
he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.

Responsorial – Psalm 132.6-7, 9-10, 13-14 Resp. 8

R. Arise, Lord, go to your resting place, you and the Ark of your Holiness.

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
We found it in the field of Jaar:
We will go into his dwelling place.
We will worship at his footstool.

R. Arise, Lord, go to your resting place, you and the Ark of your Holiness.

Let your priest be clothed with righteousness.
Let your saints shout for joy!
For the sake of your servant David,
do not turn away the face of your anointed one.

R. Arise, Lord, go to your resting place, you and the Ark of your Holiness.

For the Lord has chosen Zion.
He has desired it for his dwelling.
“This is my resting place forever.
Here I will live, for I have desired it.”

R. Arise, Lord, go to your resting place, you and the Ark of your Holiness.

Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 15.54b-57

Brothers and sisters:
When the mortal has put on immortality,
then what is written will happen:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.
Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God,
who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Gospel – Luke 11.27-28

While Jesus said these things,
a woman from the crowd
lifted up her voice and said to him,
“Blessed is the womb that bore you
and the breasts which nursed you!”
But he said, “On the contrary,
blessed are those who hear the word of God
and keep it.”

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