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 ...

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, ...

The most recent Marian dogma—the Assumption—was promulgated in 1950. But like all doctrinal developments throughout the history of the Church, it is rooted in apostolic teaching and reflected in ...

“How does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:41). If Jesus Christ is the cosmic bridge between God and Man, then Mary, as mother of the Incarnation, provides the ...

Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, high altar. Sculpted group of the Descent from the Cross (Nicolas Coustou), bas-relief of the Entombment (François Girardon), statues of Louis XIII (Guillaume Coustou) ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Catholics around the world mark the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into Heaven. But while the feast day is a ...

In the wake of a number of terror attacks, security has been intensified in Lourdes in southwestern France as thousands of pilgrims prepare to gather there to pray at ...

In “Pietà” the Welsh poet and Anglican priest R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) echoed the deep union of mother and son, which Michelangelo so famously sculpted. The bond between a mother and son is one of ...

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 ...

These lines will surely sound subversive to someone unfamiliar with Mary’s Magnificat (Latin for “My soul magnifies the Lord”). The tone is quite similar to a manifesto of a revolutionary or messianic ...

“The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory” (Munificentissimus Deus #44). With these words, ...