HAPPY SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION!

[CoffeeCatholic]

My friends and I haven't quite figured out what to do in honor of the BVM's Assumption today (other than go to mass, that is). I'm thinking PushPops and bottle rockets would be good, except that the rockets are illegal here in Va, and PushPops are more of a resurection food (you know, Jesus rising from the Tomb, the ice cream rising from the tube...) So, any suggestions?

Anyway, Happy Solemnity everybody! Go to Mass! (ha, like i have to tell you guys that) Recite the magnificat several times, maybe even to the lady in the grocery store. She'll give you that "ok, has this one had too much to drink?" look behind your back as you sign your check, but then you can leave rosary with her and tell her how much Mary ROCKS!

How cool is our Mother? When you say "Mary, you're so awesome!" She replies: "Uhuh! Don't you dare! Go worship my Son!"

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Assumption.jpg[/img]

[Seven77]

Happy Assumption! This is my favorite Marian Feastday! A good day to contemplate heaven and the joyful hope we have in Mother Mary's Son! Can't wait to see them both!


[b]All-powerful and
ever-living God,
You raised the sinless
Virgin Mary,
mother of Your Son,
body and soul,
to the glory
of heaven.

May we see heaven
as our final goal
and come to share
her glory.

We ask this through
our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son,
who lives and reigns
with You and the
Holy Spirit,
one God,
for ever and ever.
Amen [/b]


A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. Rev. 12:1

[tojo]

HURRAY!!!!!!!

As this is only my second Catholic August..... and as (I believe) last year it wasn't a HDO and I didn't have a car so i didn't push to get to mass.......

this is for all practical intents and purposes........

MY FIRST ASSUMPTION DAY!!!!!!!!!

[2xbob]

I was at mass this morning. As for celebrations, I have night shift starting at 1pm EDST so no celebrations for me.

[CoffeeCatholic]

[quote name='tomasio127' post='1044016' date='Aug 15 2006, 10:40 AM']
HURRAY!!!!!!!

As this is only my second Catholic August..... and as (I believe) last year it wasn't a HDO and I didn't have a car so i didn't push to get to mass.......

this is for all practical intents and purposes........

MY FIRST ASSUMPTION DAY!!!!!!!!!
[/quote]

It's also my "first" Assumption day. I missed mass last year as well, with it being my first Catholic year and all. I think i forgot that it was a HDO, or forgot the exact date, or something. In any case, GO MARY!

and Go us for being the last class of JPII :-D YEAH for being Catholic!

[onlygrace08]

Yeah for Mary!!!! I love to bake so, aside from going to Mass, I think that we are going to make cupcakes and I am going to TRY to make a little picture of Mary out of icing on the cupcakes.. I hope it works!! Also, I want to try to find some flowers around in our yard and make a small crown to put on the Mary statue in our garden... I know that would be more appropriate for the coronation but... :

God Bless

Anna

[melikalani]

I recall this being mentioned before, but here it is again... Speaking of bottle rockets!

[url="http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf"]http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf[/url]

[avemaria40]

Happy Assumption Day!!

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

I almost missed Mass today by sleeping in, but I got to go to the most beautiful church in my area instead! Hooray!

[JesusIPray]

Happy Feast of the Assumption to my phatmass phamily.

[Theologian in Training]

Happy Feast!!! If you so desired, there is copy of my homily under my thread entitled "Officially Started at the Parish." One woman told me it brought her to tears and a man shouted "Amen" at the end...I just wanted to make Mary feel honored today, all the rest was secondary.

God Bless and Mary keep.

[CoffeeCatholic]

[quote name='melikalani' post='1044079' date='Aug 15 2006, 12:34 PM']
I recall this being mentioned before, but here it is again... Speaking of bottle rockets!

[url="http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf"]http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf[/url]
[/quote]
heh.... i got that book for Christmas. :-D so much fun! Vatican Space program et al.

[fearundercontrol]

[quote name='melikalani' post='1044079' date='Aug 15 2006, 12:34 PM']
I recall this being mentioned before, but here it is again... Speaking of bottle rockets!

[url="http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf"]http://www.badcatholics.com/mainAnimation.swf[/url]
[/quote]
I'm not sure what I think of that, but it did make me laugh and go .

[curtins]

Today is my Total Concecration day

[cappie]

A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOAKED WITH THE SUN AND HAVING THE MOON UNDER HER UNDER HER FEET (Apocalypse 12:1). From the first time she is introduced in the New Testament, Mary is set apart from all others. She is designated by the angel as the most blessed of all women, superlative in her holiness a well as in the role she was to undertake in becoming the mother of the Savior. In assuming that role, she goes beyond the limits of nature so as to become unique, alone among all women she conceives and bears a child while remaining a virgin. Thus, from the beginning Mary stands for a kind of special creation; she is more than an outstanding individual. She is a symbol of the perfectly realized human person in God's plan. She does not need man for her fruitfulness; for her, God is enough. She is fructified by the Holy Spirit of God who overshadows her.

All of these prerogatives, and others implied by these, are given to us as a sign of our own fulfilled destiny. In her mysteries, Mary is at once a sign and a pledge of what we are to become in God's great plan of redemption. Today as we celebrate the culminating event that crowned the mystery of Mary, her bodily assumption into heaven, we hear expressly in the liturgy that A GREAT SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN: A WOMAN CLOAKED WITH THE SUN. From early times this sign was associated with Mary. This entire scene is shrouded in mystery and the language is deliberately symbolic, so that it can be rightly understood only by those who already share something of the author's perspective and beliefs. This woman who gives birth to a son whose life is in danger from hostile forces, is a symbol of the Church of God. She is best exemplified in Mary, the Mother of the Savior, as many commentators have correctly noted.

If Mary is now enthroned as Queen of Heaven and is honored as mother of the Church she has not obtained such privileges without paying a costly price in terms of suffering. Not for nothing was she told shortly after the birth of her son that a sword of sorrow would pierce her heart. Her suffering began even before she gave birth, when she found herself pregnant with child and defenseless before the prospect of being put aside by her husband until Joseph received the special revelation that resolved his crisis of conscience. Above all she shared by compassion in the sufferings of our Lord during his active ministry when she learned of the increasing hostility of his enemies, and even more intensely when he was arrested, tortured and crucified. She found in the same Holy Spirit who had overshadowed her at the conception of the Lord, the strength of soul to remain standing at the cross until the end. What she suffered at that time surely surpasses imagination. But her faith and love were stronger than anguish and heart-rending pain so that she not only endured but actively accepted her share in the Passion of her divine Son. Thus is she fittingly seen as the woman who is attacked in the desert, suffering anguish at the birth of her child, that is to say, of the members of the persecuted Church, and threatened with the violent death of her son.

As the Apocalypse goes on to state it:
And being pregnant with child she cried out from birth pangs, and suffered heavily in giving birth.... And the dragon stood in front of the woman about to give birth so that when she brought forth the child, he might devour him.

Following the ascension of Jesus she knew the sorrows of bereavement, having earlier on experienced the loss of her husband and the loneliness of widowhood. Yet through all these years she remained full of faith and confidence in the victory of her son and maintained her lively hope that she would join him in person in God's time. We celebrate today the occasion when that happy union took place.

For Mary's Assumption carried her, body and soul, into the presence of her risen and glorified son. Deservedly she is known as the virgo fidelis, the faithful virgin. Fidelity in love proved stronger than the violence of deadly force. In this fidelity, as in her humility, Mary followed closely in the footsteps of her son. We in turn can best honor her today by imitating her in that loving faith that is constant in good times and hard, in sorrow as well as in joy. As we offer the Eucharist here this morning, may we so open our hearts to the glorified Son of God as to receive a share in that same divine favor that gave meaning and strength to Mary's life, and which even now unites her to God in glory for all eternity. Amen.