The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated by Catholics each year on Aug. 15. The day celebrates the assumption of Mary's body and soul into heaven.

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 ...

With these words, Pope Pius XII defined the assumption of Mary (which the Church celebrates as a solemnity on Aug. 15) as an article of the faith in 1950, at the end of his apostolic constitution ...

Roman Catholics believe the doctrine of the Assumption, which teaches that at the end of her life, Mary, the mother of Christ, was taken body and soul (i.e. both physically and spiritually) into ...

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Aug. 15, 2021. Revelation 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10ab Psalm 45 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Luke 1:39-56 ...

Mary’s Assumption does not mean she is absent, but that because she is one with Jesus she is intimately and effectively part of the church and its mission to the poor. Advertisement Most Read ...

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 ...

CNA Staff, Aug 15, 2024 / 04:00 am. On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven.

The Assumption of Mary Last updated 2011-07-21 The doctrine of the Assumption teaches that at the end of her life, Mary, the mother of Christ, was taken body and soul into heaven.