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SOLEMNITY OF THE A SSUMPTION

FOURTH V IGIL

Immaculate Conception Parish

15 August 2015, 7:00 PM to 12:00 MN



Solemnity of the Assumption

Fourth Vigil

Introduction

Opening Verse

Hymn: Dakilang Tanda

Opening Prayer

Psalmody

Brief Silence

First Reading (from Sacred Scripture)

Brief Silence

Second Reading (from homilies of the Popes)

Silent Meditation (5 to 10 minutes)

Rosary

Hymn: Salve Regina

Intercessions

The Lord’s Prayer

Closing Prayer

Blessing

Closing Hymn: Paalam sa Inang Birhen



Immaculate Conception Parish

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INTRODUCTION

The circumstances of the Dormition of the Mother of God

were known from apostolic times. The Catholic Church

teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary “having completed

the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soulinto heavenly glory”. Many see in the Immaculate

Conception of Our Lady the root reason for her Assumption,

body and soul, into heaven. The two privileges areintimately linked together. This doctrine was dogmatically

defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in the

Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus by exercising

papal infallibility.

This solemnity celebrates that God has indeed “lifted upthe lowly” – Mary has been assumed body and soul into

heaven. Mary was lifted up by God because of her

faithfulness to God’s saving mystery, her generosity of life

toward others, and her acknowledgement of God as thesource of her grace and goodness. When we too are faithful,

humble, and generous as Mary models for us, like her we

are lifted up to share in “a place prepared by God” where “in

Christ shall all be brought to life”.

This fourth vigil is being offered for families and for theyouth.

Let us all stand and begin our vigil.

OPENING VERSE

God, () come to my assistance.

Lord, make haste to help me.



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Glory to the Father, and to the Son,

and to the Holy Spirit: ( All bow at the words Glory to…)

as it was in the beginning, is now,

and will be for ever. Amen.

H YMN

Dakilang tanda ang sumikat sa langit,

babaeng nararamtan ng araw.

S’ya’y nakatuntong, sa maliwanag na buwan,

labindalawang bituin ang kanyang korona.

Ref: Dakilang tanda, ikaw O Maria,

kahanga-hanga ang iyong tagumpay.

At bakit ganyan ang iyong kagandahan,

bakit nga ganyan ‘yong pag-aalab?Tinatanghal ka ng tanang nilalang,

Kinalulugdan kang kawangis ng Manlilikha (R.)

Ina ng habag at Ina ng pag-ibig,sa ‘yo nagniningas ng liwanag.

Sa ‘yo’y may apoy, bumubukal ang buhay,

Ang sangnilikha’y nabubuhay sa ‘yong tagumpay. (R.)

OPENING PRAYER

Let us pray[that with the help of Mary’s prayers

we too may reach our heavenly home].

(Pause for silent prayer.)

Father in heaven,

all creation rightly gives you praise,

for all life and all holiness come from you.

In the plan of your wisdom,

she who bore the Christ in her womb

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CLOSING H YMN

Paalam Inang Birhen,

Kasing ningning ng buwan.Paalam na, paalam.

Kami ay bendisyunan,

Kami ay bendisyunan.Kami ay pagpalain,Birheng maawain.

Kami ay kalingain,

Mahal na Ina naming.



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You wished Mary to be the mother of the family in the home

of Jesus and Joseph,

may all mothers of families foster love and holinessthrough her intercession. (R.)

Lord of heaven and earth, you crowned Mary queen of

heaven, may all the dead rejoice in your kingdom with the saints

forever. (R.)

THE LORD’S PRAYER

(All sing the Lord’s Prayer in English, Tagalog or Latin.)

CLOSING PRAYER

Let us pray.

All –powerful and ever-living God,you raised the sinless Virgin Mary,

mother of your Son,

body and soul to the glory of heaven.

May we see heaven as our final goal

and come to share her glory.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, forever and ever. Amen.

BLESSING

May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night and a

peaceful death.

Amen.

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was raised body and soul in glory

to be with him in heaven.

May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness and

join in her hymn of endless life and praise.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen

PSALMODY

Ant. Christ ascended into heaven / and prepared aneverlasting place / for his immaculate Mother, /

alleluia.

Psalm 113

Praise the name of the Lord

He has cast down the mighty and has lifted up the lowly

(Luke 1:52).

a Praise, O servants of the Lord,

b praise the name of the Lord!

A May the name of the Lord be blessedB both now and for evermore!

c From the rising of the sun to its setting

D praised be the name of the Lord!

a High above all nations is the Lord,

b above the heavens his glory.

A Who is like the Lord, our God,



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B who has risen on high to his throne

c yet stoops from the heights to look down,

D to look down upon heaven and earth?

a From the dust he lifts up the lowly,

b from his misery he raises the poor A to set him in the company of princes,

B yes, with the princes of his people.c To the childless wife he gives a home

D and gladdens her heart with children.

a Glory to the Father, and to the Son,B and to the Holy Spirit:

c as it was in the beginning is now

D and will be forever. Amen.

Ant. Christ ascended into heaven / and prepared an

everlasting place / for his immaculate Mother, /

alleluia.

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FIRST READING

From the first letter of the apostle Paul

to the Corinthians 1 Cor 15:54b-57

Brothers and sisters: When that which is mortal clothesitself with immortality, then the word that is written shall

come about:

Death is swallowed up in victory.

Where, O death, is your victory?

Where, O death, is your sting?

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O Santa Maria, O Reyna’t Ina ng Awa,

Ika’y aming buhay, pag-asa’t katamisan.

Sa ‘yo nga kami tumatawag,

pinapanaw na ‘nak ni Eva;Sa ‘yo rin kami tumatangis,

dini sa lupang bayang kahapis-hapis.

Kaya’t ilingon mo sa amin

Ang mga mata mong maawain,

At saka kung matapos aming pagpanaw,Ipakita mo sa amin:

Ang iyong Anak na si Hesus.

O magiliw, maawain, matamis na Birheng Maria.

Pray for us, o holy Mother of God

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

INTERCESSIONS

Let us praise God our almighty Father, who wished thatMary, his Son’s mother, be celebrated by each generation.

Now in need we ask:

(R.) Mary, full of grace, intercede for us.

O God, worker of miracles, you made the immaculate Virgin

Mary share, body and soul, in your Son’s glory in heaven, Help all of us to fix our thoughts on things above and

make us worthy to share this glory. (R.)

You made Mary our mother. Through her intercession grant

strength to the weak, healing to the sick, comfort to the

sorrowing,

pardon to sinners, salvation and peace to all. (R.)

You made Mary mother of mercy,

may all young people, especially those who are faced

with trials, feel her motherly love. (R.)



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SILENT MEDITATION

Five to ten minutes of silence to reflect and receive in our

hearts the full resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit and tounite our personal prayer more closely with the word of God

and public voice of the Church.

After the silent meditation, all pray the rosary beginning

with the First Glorious Mystery.

ROSARY

Let us all kneel and pray the Five Glorious Mysteries.

All kneel to pray the Five Glorious Mysteries of the rosary

beginning immediately with the First Glorious Mystery. (Our

Father, ten Hail Marys, Glory Be). Each mystery is to be led

by a different member of the congregation.

After the Glory Be of the Fifth Glorious Mystery, all stand tosing the Salve Regina

S ALVE REGINA

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;

vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes

in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra,

illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.

Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,

nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.

or

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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.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

BRIEF SILENCE

SECOND READING

From a Homily on the Assumption by Pope Benedict XVI

The Feast of the Assumption is a day of joy. God haswon. Love has won. It has won life. Love has shown that it is

stronger than death, that God possesses the true strength

and that his strength is goodness and love.

Mary was taken up body and soul into Heaven: there is

even room in God for the body. Heaven is no longer a very

remote sphere unknown to us.

We have a mother in Heaven. And the Mother of God,

the Mother of the Son of God, is our Mother. He himself has

said so. He made her our Mother when he said to the

disciple and to all of us: “Behold, your Mother!”. We have a

Mother in Heaven. Heaven is open, Heaven has a heart.

In the Gospel we heard the Magnificat, that great poem

inspired by the Holy Spirit that came from Mary's lips,

indeed, from Mary's heart. This marvellous canticle mirrors

the entire soul, the entire personality of Mary. We can saythat this hymn of hers is a portrait of Mary, a true icon in

which we can see her exactly as she is. I would like to

highlight only two points in this great canticle.

It begins with the word “Magnificat”: my soul

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the Lord. Mary wanted God to be great in the world, great in

her life and present among us all. She was not afraid that

God might be a “rival” in our life, that with his greatness he

might encroach on our freedom, our vital space. She knewthat if God is great, we too are great. Our life is not

oppressed but raised and expanded: it is precisely then thatit becomes great in the splendour of God.

The fact that our first parents thought the contrary was

the core of original sin. They feared that if God were toogreat, he would take something away from their life. They

thought that they could set God aside to make room for

themselves.

This has been the great temptation of the modern age, of

the past three or four centuries. More and more people have

thought and said: “But this God does not give us ourfreedom; with all his commandments, he restricts the space

in our lives. So God has to disappear; we want to be

autonomous and independent. Without this God we

ourselves would be gods and do as we pleased”.

This was also the view of the Prodigal Son, who did not

realize that he was “free” precisely because he was in his

father's house. He left for distant lands and squandered his

estate. In the end, he realized that precisely because he hadgone so far away from his father, instead of being free he

had become a slave; he understood that only by returninghome to his father's house would he be truly free, in the full

beauty of life.

This is how it is in our modern epoch. Previously, it wasthought and believed that by setting God aside and being

autonomous, following only our own ideas and inclinations,

we would truly be free to do whatever we liked withoutanyone being able to give us orders. But when God

disappears, men and women do not become greater; indeed,

they lose the divine dignity, their faces lose God's splendour.

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In the end, they turn out to be merely products of a blind

evolution and, as such, can be used and abused. This is

precisely what the experience of our epoch has confirmed for

us.

Only if God is great is humankind also great. With Mary,we must begin to understand that this is so. We must not

drift away from God but make God present; we must ensure

that he is great in our lives. Thus, we too will become divine;

all the splendour of the divine dignity will then be ours. Let

us apply this to our own lives.

It is important that God be great among us, in public and

in private life.

In public life, it is important that God be present, for

example, through the cross on public buildings, and that hebe present in our community life, for only if God is presentdo we have an orientation, a common direction; otherwise,

disputes become impossible to settle, for our common dignity

is no longer recognized.

Let us make God great in public and in private life. This

means making room for God in our lives every day, startingin the morning with prayers, and then dedicating time to

God, giving Sundays to God. We do not waste our free time if

we offer it to God. If God enters into our time, all time

becomes greater, roomier, richer.

On this feast day, let us thank the Lord for the gift of theMother, and let us pray to Mary to help us find the right

path every day. Amen.

End of the reading from a homily on the Assumption by

Pope Benedict XVI

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