The Feast of The Assumption of Mary – 9am & 12:10pm.
- 9:00AM
- St Catherine Church - 6 Windsorville Road, Broad Brook, CT 06016
The Assumption of Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation,
occurs this year on Thursday, August 15th. In
May we celebrated the Ascension of Jesus, forty
days after Easter, Jesus “ascends” back to the Father
on His own. Mary, on the other hand, having
no godly authority or power of her own, is
“assumed” into Heaven. Witness the most beautiful
painting by Bartolome Esteban-Murillo (1617-
1682) of Mary being assumed into Heaven by little
cherubs!
As Catholics we believe that after the death of the
Virgin Mary, she was not allowed to decay in the
grave. She was delivered from original sin in order
to give birth to the sinless one…. Jesus Christ, her
son. Without any controversy in the Church on this
matter for centuries, Pope Pius X11 in 1950, together
with the consent of all the bishops the world
over, as well as with the consent of the faithful
people of God, declared and defined that Mary indeed
was assumed into Heaven. It is “de fide” or
from the faith of the people in whom the Holy
Spirit guides and resides that Mary is truly assumed
into Heaven.
The Assumption of Mary into Heaven is the
Fourth Mystery in the series of Mysteries of the
Rosary called the Glorious Mysteries. Masses on
the Feast of The Assumption, Thursday, August
15th will take place at St. Catherine Church. The
Mass schedule is as follows: 9am and 12:10 pm.
I am eliminating the evening Mass as very few
people attend. Holy Days of Obligation are mandatory
upon Catholics to celebrate Mass together.