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Sunday 16 August 2026

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity · Ordinary Time 1962: XII Sunday after Pentecost, Class II, with the commemoration of St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin

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Ordinary Form · Missal of Paul VI

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Solemnity · Ordinary Time · Sunday Cycle A · Psalter Week 4

First ReadingRevelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab

From the Book of Revelation

19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened,and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple.Lightnings, sounds,thunders, an earthquake,and great hail followed.

1A great sign was seen in heaven:a woman clothed with the sun,and the moon under her feet,and on her head a crown of twelve stars.2She was with child.She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

3Another sign was seen in heaven.Behold, a great red dragon,having seven heads and ten horns,and on his heads seven crowns.4His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky,and threw them to the earth.The dragon stood before the womanwho was about to give birth,so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.5She gave birth to a son,a male child,who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron.Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.6The woman fled into the wilderness,where she has a place prepared by God,that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

verses 7–9 are not read10I heard a loud voice in heaven,saying, “Now the salvation,the power, and the Kingdom of our God,and the authority of his Christ has come;for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down,who accuses them before our God day and night.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 45:10, 11, 12, 16

10Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women.At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

11Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

12So the king will desire your beauty,honor him, for he is your lord.

16With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.They shall enter into the king’s palace.

Second Reading1 Corinthians 15:20-27

From the First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

20But now Christ has been raised from the dead.He became the first fruit of those who are asleep.21For since death came by man,the resurrection of the dead also came by man.22For as in Adam all die,so also in Christ all will be made alive.23But each in his own order:Christ the first fruits,then those who are Christ’s at his coming.24Then the end comes,when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father,when he will have abolished all ruleand all authority and power.25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.26The last enemy that will be abolished is death.27For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.”But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”,it is evident that he is exceptedwho subjected all things to him.

GospelLuke 1:39-56

From the Gospel according to Luke

39Mary arose in those daysand went into the hill country with haste,into a city of Judah,40and entered into the house of Zachariasand greeted Elizabeth.41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,the baby leaped in her womb;and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.42She called out with a loud voice and said,“Blessed are you among women,and blessed is the fruit of your womb!43Why am I so favored,that the mother of my Lord should come to me?44For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears,the baby leaped in my womb for joy!45Blessed is she who believed,for there will be a fulfillment of the thingswhich have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

46Mary said,

“My soul magnifies the Lord.47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,48for he has looked at the humble state of his servant.For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.49For he who is mighty has done great things for me.Holy is his name.50His mercy is for generations and generations on those who fear him.51He has shown strength with his arm.He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.52He has put down princes from their thrones,and has exalted the lowly.53He has filled the hungry with good things.He has sent the rich away empty.54He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,55as he spoke to our fathers,to Abraham and his offspring forever.”

56Mary stayed with her about three months,and then returned to her house.

1962 Missal · Missale Romanum

XII Sunday after Pentecost

Class II · green

Commemoration: St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin

IntroitIntroitus

Ps 69:2-3

Deus, in adjutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína: confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.

Ps 69:4

Avertántur retrórsum et erubéscant: qui cógitant mihi mala.

Glória Patri…

Deus, in adjutórium meum inténde: Dómine, ad adjuvándum me festína: confundántur et revereántur inimíci mei, qui quærunt ánimam meam.

Ps 69:2-3

Deign, O God, to rescue me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life.

Ps 69:4

Let them be turned back in disgrace, who desire my ruin.

Glory Be to the Father…

Deign, O God, to rescue me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life.

CollectOratio

Omnípotens et miséricors Deus, de cujus múnere venit, ut tibi a fidélibus tuis digne et laudabíliter serviátur: tríbue, quǽsumus, nobis; ut ad promissiónes tuas sine offensióne currámus.

Per Dominum…

Almighty and merciful God, by Whose grace Your faithful people serve You worthily and righteously, grant, we beseech You, that we may hasten without stumbling to those things You have promised us.

Through our Lord…

Commemoration CollectCommemoratio Oratio

Commemoratio S. Joachim Confessoris, Patris B. Mariæ Virginis

Deus, qui præ ómnibus Sanctis tuis beátum Jóachim Genetrícis Fílii tui patrem esse voluísti: concéde, quǽsumus; ut, cujus festa venerámur, ejus quoque perpétuo patrocínia sentiámus.

Per eúndem…

Commemoration St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin

O God, Who, in preference to Your other Saints, willed St. Joachim to be the father of Your Son’s Mother; grant, we beseech You, that we may ever enjoy the spiritual help of him whose feast we celebrate.

Through the same Christ our Lord…

EpistleLectio

Léctio Epístolæ beáti Pauli Apóstoli ad Corínthios

2 Cor 3:4-9

Fratres: Fidúciam talem habémus per Christum ad Deum: non quod sufficiéntes simus cogitáre áliquid a nobis, quasi ex nobis: sed sufficiéntia nostra ex Deo est: qui et idóneos nos fecit minístros novi testaménti: non líttera, sed spíritu: líttera enim occídit, spíritus autem vivíficat. Quod si ministrátio mortis, lítteris deformáta in lapídibus, fuit in glória; ita ut non possent inténdere fili Israël in fáciem Moysi, propter glóriam vultus ejus, quæ evacuátur: quómodo non magis ministrátio Spíritus erit in glória? Nam si ministrátio damnatiónis glória est multo magis abúndat ministérium justítiæ in glória.

Lesson from the second letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

2 Cor. 3:4-9

Brethren: Such is the assurance I have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God. He also it is Who has made us fit ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. Now if the ministration of death, which was engraved in letters upon stones, was inaugurated in such glory that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses on account of the transient glory that shone upon it, shall not the ministration of the spirit be still more glorious? For if there is glory in the ministration that condemned, much more does the ministration that justifies abound in glory.

GradualGraduale

Ps 33:2-3

Benedícam Dóminum in omni témpore: semper laus ejus in ore meo.

℣.In Dómino laudábitur ánima mea: áudiant mansuéti, et læténtur. Allelúja, allelúja

Ps 87:2

Dómine, Deus salútis meæ, in die clamávi et nocte coram te. Allelúja.

Ps 33:2-3

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be ever in my mouth.

℣.Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear and be glad. Alleluia, alleluia.

Ps 87:2

O Lord, the God of my salvation, by day I cry out, at night I clamor in Your presence. Alleluia.

GospelEvangelium

Sequéntia ☩ sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam

Luc 10:23-37

In illo témpore: Dixit Jesus discípulis suis: Beáti óculi, qui vident quæ vos videtis. Dico enim vobis, quod multi prophétæ et reges voluérunt vidére quæ vos videtis, et non vidérunt: et audire quæ audítis, et non audiérunt. Et ecce, quidam legisperítus surréxit, tentans illum, et dicens: Magister, quid faciéndo vitam ætérnam possidébo? At ille dixit ad eum: In lege quid scriptum est? quómodo legis? Ille respóndens, dixit: Díliges Dóminum, Deum tuum, ex toto corde tuo, et ex tota ánima tua, et ex ómnibus víribus tuis; et ex omni mente tua: et próximum tuum sicut teípsum. Dixítque illi: Recte respondísti: hoc fac, et vives. Ille autem volens justificáre seípsum, dixit ad Jesum: Et quis est meus próximus? Suscípiens autem Jesus, dixit: Homo quidam descendébat ab Jerúsalem in Jéricho, et íncidit in latrónes, qui étiam despoliavérunt eum: et plagis impósitis abiérunt, semivívo relícto. Accidit autem, ut sacerdos quidam descénderet eádem via: et viso illo præterívit. Simíliter et levíta, cum esset secus locum et vidéret eum, pertránsiit. Samaritánus autem quidam iter fáciens, venit secus eum: et videns eum, misericórdia motus est. Et apprópians, alligávit vulnera ejus, infúndens óleum et vinum: et impónens illum in juméntum suum, duxit in stábulum, et curam ejus egit. Et áltera die prótulit duos denários et dedit stabulário, et ait: Curam illíus habe: et quodcúmque supererogáveris, ego cum redíero, reddam tibi. Quis horum trium vidétur tibi próximus fuísse illi, qui íncidit in latrónes? At ille dixit: Qui fecit misericórdiam in illum. Et ait illi Jesus: Vade, et tu fac simíliter.

Continuation ☩ of the Holy Gospel according to Luke

Luke 10:23-37

At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I say to you, many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, and they have not heard it. And behold, a certain lawyer got up to test Him, saying, Master, what must I do to gain eternal life? But He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read? He answered and said, You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with your whole strength, and with your whole mind; and your neighbor as yourself. And He said to him, You have answered rightly; do this and you shall live. But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? Jesus answered and said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell in with robbers, who after both stripping him and beating him went their way, leaving him half-dead. But, as it happened, a certain priest was going down the same way; and when he saw him, he passed by. And likewise a Levite also, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by. But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came upon him, and seeing him, was moved with compassion. And he went up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. And setting him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I, on my way back, will repay you.’ Which of these three, in your opinion, proved himself neighbor to him who fell among the robbers? And he said, He who took pity on him. And Jesus said to him, Go and do also in like manner.

OffertoryOffertorium

Exod 32:11 32:13; 32:14

Precátus est Moyses in conspéctu Dómini, Dei sui, et dixit: Quare, Dómine, irásceris in pópulo tuo? Parce iræ ánimæ tuæ: meménto Abraham, Isaac et Jacob, quibus jurásti dare terram fluéntem lac et mel. Et placátus factus est Dóminus de malignitáte, quam dixit fácere pópulo suo.

Ex 32:11, 13-14.

Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord his God and said, Why, O Lord, is Your indignation enkindled against Your people? Let the anger of Your mind cease; remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to whom You swore to give a land flowing with milk and honey. And the Lord was appeased from doing the evil which He had spoken of doing against His people.

SecretSecreta

Hóstias, quǽsumus, Dómine, propítius inténde, quas sacris altáribus exhibémus: ut, nobis indulgéntiam largiéndo, tuo nómini dent honórem.

Per Dominum…

O Lord, we beseech You, graciously look upon the offerings which we lay upon Your sacred altar; so that they may bring us plentiful forgiveness while they give honor to Your name.

Through our Lord…

Commemoration SecretCommemoratio Secreta

Commemoratio S. Joachim Confessoris, Patris B. Mariæ Virginis

Súscipe, clementíssime Deus, sacrifícium in honórem sancti Patriarchæ Jóachim, patris Maríæ Vírginis, majestáti tuæ oblátum: ut, ipso cum cónjuge sua et beatíssima prole intercedénte, perféctam cónsequi mereámur remissiónem peccatórum et glóriam sempitérnam.

Per Dominum…

Commemoration St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin

Graciously accept, most merciful God, the sacrifice offered to Your majesty in honor of the holy Patriarch Joachim, father of the Virgin Mary, that by his intercession, together with that of his spouse and most blessed child, we may be found worthy to obtain full forgiveness of our sins and everlasting glory.

Through our Lord…

PrefacePrefatio

de sanctissima Trinitate

Vere dignum et justum est, æquum et salutáre, nos tibi semper et ubíque grátias ágere: Dómine sancte, Pater omnípotens, ætérne Deus: Qui cum unigénito Fílio tuo et Spíritu Sancto unus es Deus, unus es Dóminus: non in uníus singularitáte persónæ, sed in uníus Trinitáte substántiæ. Quod enim de tua glória, revelánte te, crédimus, hoc de Fílio tuo, hoc de Spíritu Sancto sine differéntia discretiónis sentímus. Ut in confessióne veræ sempiternǽque Deitátis, et in persónis propríetas, et in esséntia únitas, et in majestáte adorétur æquálitas. Quam laudant Angeli atque Archángeli, Chérubim quoque ac Séraphim: qui non cessant clamáre cotídie, una voce dicéntes:

Holy Trinity

It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons, unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be adored. Which the Angels and Archangels, the Cherubim also and Seraphim do praise: who cease not daily to cry out, with one voice saying:

CommunionCommunio

Ps 103:13; 103:14-15

De fructu óperum tuórum, Dómine, satiábitur terra: ut edúcas panem de terra, et vinum lætíficet cor hóminis: ut exhílaret fáciem in óleo, et panis cor hóminis confírmet.

Ps 103:13-15

The earth is replete with the fruit of Your works, O Lord; You produce bread from the earth, and wine to gladden men’s hearts, so that their faces gleam with oil, and bread fortifies the hearts of men.

PostcommunionPostcommunio

Vivíficet nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, hujus participátio sancta mystérii: et páriter nobis expiatiónem tríbuat et múnimen.

Per Dominum…

May the holy reception of this sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord, restore us to life, and bestow upon us forgiveness and protection.

Through our Lord…

Commemoration PostcommunionCommemoratio Postcommunio

Commemoratio S. Joachim Confessoris, Patris B. Mariæ Virginis

Quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut per hæc sacraménta, quæ súmpsimus, intercedéntibus méritis et précibus beáti Jóachim patris Genetrícis dilécti Fílii tui, Dómini nostri Jesu Christi, tuæ grátiæ in præsénti et ætérnæ glóriæ in futúro partícipes esse mereámur.

Per eúndem…

Commemoration St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin

We beseech You, almighty God, that by this sacrament which we have received, and by the pleading merits of holy Joachim, father of the Mother of Your beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, we may be found worthy to share Your grace in the life, and eternal glory in the life to come.

Through the same Christ our Lord…

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