Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Holy Day of Obligation

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

“Actually God, who from all eternity regards Mary with a most favorable and unique affection, has ‘when the fullness of time came’ [Galations 4:4] put the plan of his providence into effect in such a way that all the privileges and prerogatives he had granted to her in his sovereign generosity were to shine forth in her in a kind of perfect harmony. And, although the Church has always recognized this supreme generosity and the perfect harmony of graces and has daily studied them more and more throughout the course of the centuries, still it is in our own age that the privilege of the bodily Assumption into heaven of Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, has certainly shone forth more clearly” (Pope Pius XII, Munificentissimus Deus: Defining the Dogma of the Assumption, n. 2).