ST. JOSEPH CATHEDRAL TO MARK MARY’S ASSUMPTION AT THURSDAY NOON MASS

Thursday, August 15, 2024, 12:00 PM

Location: St. Joseph’s Cathedral, 401 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA

The Universal Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary this Thursday, August 15, a holy day of obligation for Catholics locally and worldwide.

The Most Reverend Michael G. Duca, Bishop of Baton Rouge, will preside at the noontime Mass at 12:00 noon at St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main Street downtown.
In November 1950, Pope Pius XII in the papal encyclical Munificentissimus Deus declared that “the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” This dogma enables all Catholic Christians to hope that the bodily “taking up” of Mary into heaven by God’s grace will strengthen and make more eective our belief in our own resurrection.

One week later, the Church celebrates the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a memorial feast established in 1954 by Pope Pius XII, who wrote: “... (never) has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary ... reigns with a mother’s solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.” A Mass for this feast will be celebrated at 12:00 noon, Thursday, August 22.
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