14/08/2026
Assumption of Our Lady
August 15
"As Augustine says in his tractate on the Assumption of the Virgin: 'It is fitting that the body of Mary, which was sanctified and bore God, should be free from corruption and translated to heavenly glory.'"
St Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae, Part III, Question 83, Article 5)
Today the Lord glorifies that place [the Blessed Virgin Mary, who gave Him His human nature], since He has exalted Mary above the choirs of the Angels. That is to say, the Blessed Virgin, who was the dwelling of the Saviour, has been assumed bodily into Heaven."
St Antony Of Padua (The Praises of Mary: Assumption)