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by bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Assumption of Mary, Featured, News | 0 |
When I was growing up, my family prayed the Rosary every evening. This devotion was passed down to my mother from her mother and grandmother. The meditations we used came from a book entitled Rosary Novenas to Our Lady by Charles V. Lacey, and we recited them so many times that some of my siblings […]
by bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Assumption of Mary, Blessed Virgin Mary, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
We marvel as we read the extraordinary words used by the Fathers of the Church when speaking of the most holy Virgin. From St. Irenaeus: “Condemned to death by a virgin, the human race was saved by a Virgin.” Tertullian: “What was led astray into perdition by this sex was restored to salvation by this […]
by bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Assumption of Mary, Faith, holiness, Into the Deep, Knowing the Faith, News, Spiritual Life | 0 |
She who bore Him, led Him and followed Him in all ways was perfected in Him. And so too may we hope with confidence to be perfected in Christ by His grace in this life or the life to come and to join Him, body and soul on the last day. On August 15th&#…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Assumption, Assumption of Mary, Blessed Mother, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Why do Catholics believe that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2021 | Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Archdiocese of Miami, Assumption of Mary, Creole, Cuba, Earthquake, Florida, Guantanamo, Haiti, News, Port-au-Prince, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The day after a 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti’s southwestern peninsula, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski celebrated the 8 a.m. Creole-language Mass at St. Mary Cathedral, praying especially for the victims of the quake.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2021 | Assumption of Mary, Blessed Virgin Mary, Faith, Featured, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, News, Revelation, St. Luke the Evangelist | 0 |
On August 15th of each liturgical year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the United States, the Assumption is a Holy Day of Obligation unless it falls on a Saturday or Monday, in which case the prece…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Assumption of Mary, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The dogma of the Assumption declares that at the conclusion of her earthly life, Mary’s body was preserved from all physical corruption and assumed, along with her soul, into heaven. The doctrine of the Assumption was made a dogma in 1950 through an ex cathedra statement by Pope Pius XII, but the teaching itself, as […]
by bcadmin | Aug 15, 2020 | Assumption of Mary, Blessed Virgin Mary, Calendar & Seasons, Doctrine, Dormition, Featured, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, Marian dogmas, News | 0 |
On August 15th of each Liturgical Year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the United States, the Assumption is a Holy Day of Obligation unless it falls on a Saturday or Monday, in which…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | Assumption, Assumption of Mary, News, Only Jesus, Our Lady | 0 |
The end of the summer is always punctuated by one of my favorite holy days, which reminds all of us of the goal of our earthly pilgrimage. Our Lady’s Assumption (normally a holy day of obligation but not this year, because of the coronavirus) is an opportunity for us to meditate on the life of heaven, to which Our Lady has preceded us, and to which we hope to follow. This year it has special meaning for me in light of the state of crisis in which we find our world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2020 | Assumption of Mary, COVID-19 pandemic, Knock, Knock Novena, Marian shrine at Knock, News, Pilgrimage, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The Marian shrine at Knock announced Aug. 10 that in addition to postponing the popular Knock Novena and pilgrimage because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shrine and its church would be closed for the Aug. 15 feast of the Assumption of Mary to ensure pilgrims do not arrive anyway.
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