Come, let us, with one mind and heart, praise the Lord on this Solemniity of the Assumption of Mary, Aug. 15. Mary's bodily Assumption into Heaven is the fulfillment of God's promise to recover all gifts to mankind. The Immaculate one lived and lives as all human beings were destined to live.
On the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, Aug. 15, Dr. Robert Stackpole shares a witticism: The reason Mary was assumed, body and soul, into Heaven was because she always took herself so lightly.
If we look at the lives of the saints, we discover a powerful reality — those who are in love with God are always at peace, no matter the hardship, resting in the innermost heart in the will and providence of God. Consider the miracle that is the life of the priest and martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast we celebrate on Aug. 14.
"Many, many years have passed since Christ walked the earth in the time before His resurrection, but still we call that land holy," Chris Sparks observes in this final installment of his Holy Land pilgrimage series.
On Saturday, August 12, Fr. Jason Lewis MIC, was ordained to the priesthood for the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
On Saturday, Aug. 12, Deacon Jason Matthew Lewis, MIC, will be ordained to the priesthood for the Marian Fathers at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy.
Through her faith in the Cross, Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, feast day Aug. 9) allowed God to transform her suffering and death into a message of love and redemption for the world.
Saint Dominic, whose feast is Aug. 8, gave to the Church one of her greatest treasures: the Holy Rosary. Our Lady has given us a "rope" with which to bear any burden, to make them light and easy to carry.
"The whole of the Holy Land is an icon of the soul in relationship to God," Chris Sparks observes. "One can discern in the gardens and the deserts of the Holy Land all stages of salvation history."
Imagine being so eloquent, you're remembered more than a thousand years later as Peter "of the Golden Words." Meet St. Peter Chrysologus, whose feast day is July 30.
He is considered the “Marian Doctor of the Church” and was declared the “Patron of all confessors and moral theologians” by Ven. Pope Pius XII. He is St. Alphonsus Liguori, whose feast we celebrate on July 30.
No hardships restrained St. Lawrence of Brindisi (feast day: July 21) from tirelessly pursuing the spread of the Gospel of Christ and “calling the greatest number of people to eternal salvation," according to Pope St. John XXIII, who declared St. Lawrence a Doctor of the Catholic Church.
