Our Lady’s funeral
With the Russians: the Falling Asleep of the Most Holy Mother of God, commonly called the Assumption of the BVM. More.


The gospel at Matins (Orthros, really Lauds) is Luke 1:39-49 and 56, nearly the same as in the Pius XII Mass for the feast; that at Liturgy (Mass) Luke 10:38-42, from the Byzantine Rite’s common of the BVM, almost the same as in the Roman Rite before Pius XII’s changes plus another bit from Luke, 11:27-30 (sort of an ironic reminder not to lose focus on God himself), as in the Roman Rite common.