#Assumption of Mary

[myremnantarmy]

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,

with the moon under her feet,

and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

[koredzas]

Stefano de’Fedeli - The Assumption of Mary. 1466 - 1469

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642) Assumption of Mary, c.1598-99 Städel, Frankfurt

[lionofchaeronea]

The Assumption of the Virgin, Bernardo Daddi, ca. 1337-39

[theraccolta]

Ego in altissimis habitavi, et thronus meus in columna nubis. 

 I dwelt in the highest places, and my throne is in a pillar of a cloud.

[cellabella-illuminates]

I am running a sale on this greeting card until the feast of the Assumption (August 15th)!

You can buy individual cards or in packs of 10!

Get yours here :)

[poligraf]

« L'elezione della Vergine » (Annunciation to the Virgin · The Assumption of the Virgin) by Francesco Botticini

[catholic-saint-tournament]

*Holy days of obligation are days in which Catholics must go to Mass. EVERY SUNDAY is considered a holy day of obligation. In addition to Sundays, there are others! This list is curated from the holy days of obligation set by the USCCB, as each country has its own holy days in accordance with canon law.

January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter, the solemnity of the Ascension August 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary November 1, the solemnity of All Saints December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception December 25, the solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Also, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. Most Catholics when they hear that get the surprised Pikachu face.

[peartreetheft]

"It was fitting that she who had kept her virginity intact in child birth should keep her own body free from all corruption, even after death. It was fitting that she who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast should dwell in the divine tabernacles. It was fitting that the spouse whom the Father had taken to Himself should live in the divine mansions. It was fitting that she who had seen her Son upon the cross, and had thereby received into her heart the sword of sorrow that she had escaped in the act of giving birth to Him, should look upon Him as He sits with the Father. It was fitting that God's mother should possess what belongs to her Son, and that she should be honored by every creature as the Mother, and as the Handmaid, of God." -- St. John Damascene

[pol-ski]

Armed Forces Day, known also as the Feast of the Polish Armed Forces (Polish: Święto Wojska Polskiego), is a national holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in Poland, commemorating the anniversary of the 1920 victory over Soviet Russia at the Battle of Warsaw during the Polish–Soviet War. Armed Forces Day is held in conjunction with the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, itself a separate public holiday. The event is marked by military parades, equipment reviews, showcases and remembrances by all branches of the Polish Armed Forces across the country.

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[tonreihe]

Charles Williams, “The Assumption,” in Poems of Conformity.

[myremnantarmy]

"𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘚𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦. 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵?"

[maypoleman1]

15th August

Feast of the Assumption/ Marymass

Source: Novena website

Today is the feast of the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (traditionally known as Marymass) on which, in 45 AD, the mother of Jesus was alleged to have risen up to Heaven. The Assumption is not mentioned in the Gospels, which is sparing on the details of the Virgin’s life at the best of times. However, the cult of Mary became an important means by which the early Church could ease the transition to Christianity on the part of agrarian communities who still cleaved to earlier, matriarchal religions with powerful goddesses. In the twelfth century the Church confirmed Mary’s status as an intercessionary divine figure and she became an extremely popular subject of worship from that moment on. Walsingham in Norfolk became a major site of pilgrimage for Marian devotees thanks to a tenth century manifestation of Mary to lady of the manor, Lady Richeldis de Faverches. The promotion by the Catholic Church of Mary meant that the Marian cult was the subject of particular suppression by the English Reformation which expunged the feast from the Church of England’s liturgical calendar and destroyed the shrine at Walsingham in 1549, although it was restored in the 1930s.

In the Highlands the Assumption became merged with a first-fruits festival. Dried corn and sheepskin were fashioned into a bannock called the Moilean Moire or ‘Mary’s fatling’. The bannock was then baked, and distributed to the family by the father of the household. The family then sang songs in praise of Mary before they danced sunwise round the flames, before blessing their home by circling the house carrying the embers of the fire, in a ritual that arguably returned the Marian cult to its pagan roots.

[tinyshe]

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Assumption of Mary - Titian (detail) // If It's Not God - Maddie Zahm

[theraccolta]

Arca non putri fabricáta ligno Manna tu servas, fluit unde virtus, Ipsa qua surgent animáta rursus Ossa sepúlcris.

Ark of sweet wood not destined for ruin, Holding the manna, whence springeth forth the power Summoning forth the bones again arisen From depths of the tomb.