Here is further background on the day, including why it is important to the Catholic Church and traditional methods to celebrate the day. What does the Feast of the Assumption celebrate? How and where ...

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin celebrates the belief that at the end of her earthly life, Mary was "taken up body and soul into ...

Today, in the heart of what Latin-speakers called the "feriae Augusti", the August holidays, from which the Italian term "ferragosto" derives - the Church celebrates the Assumption into Heaven of the ...

On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven. But while the feast day, a solemnity, is a relatively new one, ...

On the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis said that Mary's assumption into Heaven was an infinitely greater achievement than man's first steps on the moon. "When man ...

When most Catholics think of the Assumption, they typically focus on one part of it: that Mary was taken, body and soul, to heaven. That’s both true and important, not only because it tells us about ...

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin celebrates the belief that at the end of her earthly life, Mary was "taken up body and soul into ...

Readings (Mass during the Day): 1 Chronicles 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2 1 Corinthians 15: 54b-57 Luke 11:27-28 Readings (Vigil): Revelation 11:19a; 12: 1-6a, 10ab 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Lk 1:39-56 The ...

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