We will celebrate two feast days honoring the blessed Mother Mary. The first is:
August 15th : Assumption of Mary into Heaven (usually a holy day but this year it falls on
the eve of our Sunday Celebration. So only Saturday’s 8:30 a.m. Mass will be celebrated.
Pray this prayer on the 15th:
GRACIOUS GOD, WE REJOICE ON THIS HOLY DAY
THAT YOU GAVE US MARY AS OUR MODEL AND THAT YOU HAVE
RECEIVED HER INTO THE GLORY OF HEAVEN.
WE ASK THAT YOU BLESS ALL WOMEN WHO HONOR YOU AND MARY! AMEN
Then on the August 22nd we celebrate the Queenship of Mary!
We often pray this prayer in her honor:
HAIL HOLY QUEEN, MOTHER OF MERCY;
OUR LIFE, OUR SWEETNESS, AND OUR HOPE!
TO YOU DO WE CRY, POOR BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE;
TO YOU DO WE SEND UP OUR SIGHS
MOURNING AND WEEPING IN THIS VALE OF TEARS.
TURN,THEN, O MOST GRACIOUS ADVOCATE,
YOUR EYES OF MERCY TOWARD US;
AND AFTER THIS OUR EXILE, SHOW UNTO US THE
BLESSED FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB, JESUS.
O CLEMENT, O LOVING, O SWEET VIRGIN MARY
PRAY FOR US WHO HAVE RECOURSE TO YOU.