Sunday, May 12: The Ascension of the Lord
Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23 or Heb 9:24-28; 10:19-23; Lk 24:46-53
Monday, May 13: Weekday of Easter
or Our Lady of Fatima
Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68; Jn 16:29-33
Tuesday, May 14: St Matthias, Apostle
Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113; Jn 15:9-17
Wednesday, May 15: Weekday of Easter
Acts 20:28-38; Ps 68; Jn 17:11-19
Thursday, May 16: Weekday of Easter
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Ps 16; Jn 17:20-26
Friday, May 17: Weekday of Easter
Acts 25:13-21; Ps 103; Jn 21:15-19
Saturday, May 18: Weekday of Easter or St John I, pope, martyr
Acts 2:44-47 or Col 3:12-17; Ps 131;
Lk 12:22-31
Extraordinary Form
Sunday, May 12: External Solemnity of the Ascension
Acts 1:1-11; Mark 16:14-20
Monday, May 13: Robert Bellarmine, bishop and confessor
Wisdom 7:7-14; Matthew 5;13-19
Tuesday, May 14: Feria
Readings of the External Solemnity of the Ascension
Wednesday, May 15: St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor
Ecclesiasticus 31:8-11; Matthew 18:1-5
Thursday, May 16: St Ubaldus, bishop and confessor
Ecclesiasticus 44:16-27,45:3-20; Matthew 25:14-23
Friday, May 17: St Paschal Baylon, confessor
Ecclesiasticus 31:8-11; Lk 12:35-40
Saturday, May 18: Vigil of Pentecost
Acts 19:1-8; Jn 14:15-21
Compiled by Gordon Dimon, Senior MC of the Latin Mass Society
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