Mass for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Solemnity of the Assumption is a holy day of obligation. Join us for Mass!

On Nov. 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which the Church celebrates every year on Aug. 15. Simply put, the dogma of the Assumption states that at the end of her life, the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken, body and soul, into Heaven. While this event isn’t reflected in Sacred Scripture, it is clearly part of the Church’s earliest observance. In the sixth century, St. John Damascene wrote in one of his sermons, “Your sacred and happy soul, as nature will have it, was separated in death from your most blessed and immaculate body, and although the body was duly interred, it did not remain in the state of death, neither was it dissolved by decay; your most pure and sinless body was not left on earth, but you were transferred to your heavenly throne.”

Need additional Mass time options for the Holy Day? Visit the Diocese of Grand Rapids website for a list of additional Mass times at area Catholic churches: https://grdiocese.org/ (see the section under "What's Happening in the Diocese" on the home page).

You may also like the following events from St. Robert of Newminster Catholic Church:

• Next month, 6th September, 03:00 pm, Sensory-Friendly Holy Hour at SRN in Ada