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 ...

It’s mid-August, which means we in the Marian Library and across UD’s campus are anticipating a day off. While we are observing the Solemnity of the Assumption on Aug. 15, people in the Orthodox ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday presided over the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo, encouraging Catholics to renew the Mother of ...

Today, Aug. 15, is the feast of the Assumption, a solemnity commemorating the end of the Virgin Mary’s earthly life and the assumption of her body and soul into heaven. The day also marks the ...

August 15th is a holy day of obligation celebrating the Assumption of Mary, body and soul into heaven. On November 1, 1950 Pope Pius XII declared in Munificentissimus Deus (“The Most Bountiful ...

A student at the University of Notre Dame revealed this month that his entire family converted to Catholicism on the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15 — a blessing he ...

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