Mother Mary's Birth Day

                                     The birthday (Feast ) of Mother Mary

Every year the Catholic Church celebrates the birth of Mother Mary on September 8, exactly nine months after her immaculate conception on December 8 .

The Bible does not give any details about the birth of mother Mary. According to the Gospel of James (James (5:2), which is an apocryphal writing from the late second century , Mary's parents were St. Anne and St. Joachim. Ann and Joachim were childless couples. They prayed and fasted for a child. Eventually, God answered their prayers and an angel was send to Anne with a good news: “The Lord has heard your prayer, and you shall conceive, and shall bring forth, and your seed shall be spoken of in all the world.”

Let us ask mother Mary for all the intentions of our heart, especially childless couples, do ask mother Mary on her birth day for a child. She will get that favor for you. Remember Jesus turned water in to wine at the wedding at Cana on the request of his mother Mary.

“Remember, O most gracious virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession was left unaided.”

                                                                      

Assumption of Mother Mary

Feast of the Assumption of Mother Mary -August 15^th

Belief in Mother Mary's bodily assumption to heaven goes back to apostolic times. The Feast of the Assumption is a very old feast of the Church, celebrated universally by the sixth century.

The feast day recalls the spiritual and physical departure of our mother of Christ from the earth to heaven, when both her soul and her body were taken into the presence of God.

Although,Scripture does not give an account of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven, she was closely associated with all the mysteries of Jesus’ life, definitely she will be with him in heaven.

Pope Pius XII , on November 1, 1950, declared the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.”

The feast of the Assumption is always a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics, on which they are obliged to attend holy Mass.

On her feast, let us ask our Mother to intercede for us.

Happy Feast