Gospel of August 15, 2018

Assumption of the BV Maria, solemnity

Revelation 11,19a.12,1-6a.10ab.
The sanctuary of God opened in heaven and the ark of the covenant appeared in the sanctuary.
Then a great sign appeared in the sky: a woman dressed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
She was pregnant and cried out in labor and in labor.
Then another sign appeared in the sky: a huge red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and on the heads seven tiaras;
its tail dragged down a third of the stars in the sky and plunged them to earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth to devour the newborn baby.
She gave birth to a male son, destined to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the son was immediately raptured towards God and his throne.
Instead the woman fled to the desert, where God had prepared a refuge for her because.
Then I heard a great voice in the sky saying:
"Now the salvation, the strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ has been accomplished."

Salmi 45(44),10bc.11.12ab.16.
Daughters of kings are among your favorites;
on your right the gold queen of Ophir.

Listen, daughter, look, give your ear,
forget your people and your father's house;

The king will like your beauty.
He is your Lord: speak to him.

Drive in joy and exultation
they enter the king's palace together.

First letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 15,20-26.
Brothers, Christ has risen from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have died.
For if death came because of a man, the resurrection of the dead will come because of a man;
and as everyone dies in Adam, so everyone will receive life in Christ.
But each in its own order: first Christ, who is the firstfruits; then, at his coming, those who belong to Christ;
then it will be the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, after having reduced every principality and every power and power to nothing.
For he must reign until he has placed all the enemies under his feet.
The last enemy to be annihilated will be death,

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 1,39-56.
In those days, Mary set off for the mountain and hurriedly reached a city of Judah.
Entering the house of Zechariah, she greeted Elizabeth.
As soon as Elizabeth heard Maria's greeting, the baby jumped in her womb. Elizabeth was full of the Holy Spirit
and exclaimed in a loud voice: "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
To what should the mother of my Lord come to me?
Behold, as soon as the voice of your greeting reached my ears, the child exulted with joy in my womb.
And blessed is she who believed in the fulfillment of the words of the Lord ».
Then Mary said: «My soul magnifies the Lord
and my spirit rejoices in God, my savior,
because he looked at the humility of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed.
The Almighty has done great things for me
and Santo is his name:
from generation to generation
his mercy extends to those who fear him.
He explained the power of his arm, he dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their heart;
he overthrew the mighty from the thrones, he raised the humble;
He has filled the hungry with good things,
he sent the rich away empty.
He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering his mercy,
as he promised our fathers,
to Abraham and his descendants forever. "
Maria stayed with her for about three months, then returned to her home.