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Join Us in Celebrating!
This Saturday, August 15th
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven
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Our Lady's Assumption is Close to Our Heart
Having placed itself under the patronage of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the NACN-USA holds the solemnity of Our Lady's Assumption into heaven particularly close to its heart. That is because the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and the dogma of the Assumption are intimately related to each other. As Pope Pius XII teaches in his Apostolic Constitution, "Defining the Dogma of the Assumption, Munificentissimus Deus:"
Background:
These two privileges [Immaculate Conception and Assumption] are most closely bound to one another... She, by an entirely unique privilege, completely overcame sin by her Immaculate Conception, and as a result, she was not subject to the law of remaining in the corruption of the grave and she did not have to wait until the end of time for the redemption of her body" (4,5).
The Catechism further teaches:
Finally, the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians:
In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Dormition, you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and, by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death (CCS 966).
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