My Family Prayer Book

  Aug-15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Heaven Mother Mary's unique role is reflected in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 967) By her complete adherence to the Father’s will, to his Son’s redemptive work, and to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary is the Church’s model of faith and charity. Thus she is a ‘pre-eminent and wholly unique member of the Church’; indeed, she is the ‘exemplary realisation’ of the Church”  Mary’s greatness was not just in being chosen to be Jesus’ mother but in her total acceptance of that responsibility in faith and trust, accepting blindly all that it might entail. - Birth in a strange city of Bethlehem without basic care or comfort - Flight into Egypt - Losing her 12 year old son for 3 days in Jerusalem  - The passion and crucifixion of Christ First reading from Revelation:  There is first a brief reference of God’s temple in the New Jerusalem about the ark of the covenant kept in the Holy of Holies with...

  August 15: Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven Prayer on the Feast of the Assumption O most blessed and glorious mystery,  Virgin Mother of God who, having finished your life on earth, rose body and soul into heaven there to bless and intercede for us  who struggle here below. Hear our humble prayer, Mother Mary, who interceded for the bride and groom at their wedding in Cana of Galilee that our sorrow might be turned into joy, our sickness into healing and our worries into distant memories. You, blessed among women, from whom your divine Son drew his humanity and his body, be ever near to us, your children, who rejoice in your Assumption wedding heaven and earth forever. Amen. (prayer written by Fr. Joseph Veneroso, M.M.) Opening Prayer for the Liturgy of the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven All-powerful and ever-living God, you raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body and soul to the glory of heaven. May we see heaven as our final goa...