TODAY IS THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY INTO HEAVEN

And while the Archdiocese of Agana does not regard it as a Holy Day of obligation (maybe our new bishop will change that!) I do. And I know many of you do. 

Go to Mass. This is Mary. Our Mother. The "Woman" of Genesis 3:15. The "Immaculate Conception." Conceived without sin so her body could never know corruption. 

The DOGMA of the Assumption of Mary was proclaimed on the Feast of All Saints, November 1, 1950, in the APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION OF POPE PIUS XII: MUNIFICENTISSIMUS DEUS. Read it. It is beautiful. 

I also share with you my column about the Assumption of Mary published in the Umatuna in August of 2011: Dealing with some assumptions about the Assumption of Mary

AND SHE SHALL CRUSH THY HEAD

Posted by Tim

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and also the occasion of my annual beef about how Scripture's most important verse has disappeared from our Catholic bibles and even today's Mass readings. 

Enshrining the ancient belief that Mary was conceived without sin in her mother's womb into Dogma, Pope Pius IX declared:

“...so the most holy Virgin, united with him by a most intimate and indissoluble bond, was, with him and through him, eternally at enmity with the evil serpent, and most completely triumphed over him, and thus crushed his head with her immaculate foot.” - Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, December 8, 1854

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