The 15th of August, 2023, Tuesday is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Bible scriptures for the vigil readings for this day came from the 2023 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: 1 CHR 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2
The first reading from the Book of Chronicles.
David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.
David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites.
The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.
David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and 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 Yahweh’s name.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14
Response: Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
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, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!
For your servant David’s sake, don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
R: Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.”
R: Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.
Reading 2: 1 COR 15:54B-57
The second reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.
And this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
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 of the Day: LK 11:27-28
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude 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.”
Other Solemnity of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary Reading
You can also check out the Solemnity of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary – Mass During the Day reading.
