The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay—a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin’s passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts as well as being a Holy Day of Obligation.
Type of Feast: Solemnity, Holy Day of Obligation.
First Reading
Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a,10ab
The sign of God’s salvation will be a woman clothed with the sun.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 45:10-12,16
The queen takes her place next to God.
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 15:20-27
Christ has redeemed Adam’s sin.
Gospel Reading
Luke 1:39-56
Mary greets Elizabeth and sings God’s praise.
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