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Pope Pius XII and the Assumption

by | Aug 13, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 0 |

  “The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed extraordinary attacks on the truth that underlies this dogma…” Pope Pius XII declared in 1950, “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course o…

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Mary’s Assumption: a sign of hope

by | Aug 12, 2021 | , , , | 0 |

In our first reading this weekend of Aug. 14-15, we experience the fantastic imagery found in Revelation 12, where a woman gives birth to her son, while the dragon stands by, waiting to devour the child. The son, however, is “caught up to God and his throne,” and “the woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God” (Rv 12:5b-6a).

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Archbishop Follo: In the Assumption we see that in God There is Place for Man and that in Man There is Place for God

by | Aug 14, 2020 | , , , , | 0 |

With the invitation to pray more and more intensely to Our Lady, who gave Christ our human body: the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, Mother of Christ and our mother

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Our Lady’s invitation: Join her in prayer for world’s healing

by | Aug 13, 2020 | , , , , | 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.

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