The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary falls on Thursday, August 15th in 2024. On this holy day of obligation, we commemorate when Mary’s body and soul were assumed into heaven and she passed into eternal life.
In the mystery of her Assumption, Mary immediately experiences what we all will eventually experience: a bodily resurrection like Christ’s own. “The Immaculate Virgin . . . when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of death” (CCC, no. 966, citing LG, no. 59).
How to Honor Mary :
- Pray the Rosary
- Wear blue
- Pray the Angelus
- Learn about a new Marian devotion
- Share a Miraculous Medal
- Sing the Salve Regina or another Marian Hymn
- Read a Marian book
- Plant a Mary Garden / Flowers for Marian statue