Solemnity of the Assumption

A Happy and Blessed Feast day to you!!! We pray that Our Blessed Mother will intercede for us and guide us with her maternal love and care. As Pope Benedict XVI writes, "Precisely because Mary is with God and in God, she is very close to each one of us. While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is actually 'within' all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God". Our Lady "knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness. She always listens to us and, being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother" (Magnificat, 184-85). Like the Resurrection and Ascension, the Assumption of Mary gives us all hope because we believe in the life of the world to come. Let us trust in Our Blessed Mother's intercession and prayers because she is with us at all times! Have a Blessed Feast!!!!