19th Week of Ordinary Time C – Friday – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today, on this beautiful Solemnity, we rejoice with all of heaven in the great things Almighty God has done for and through our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary. From all eternity He chose her to be the Mother of His Son, and at the end of her earthly life— as proclaimed by Pope Pius XII in 1950— she was “assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”