The Assumption (Holy Day of Obligation)

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

There will only be only ONE liturgy held on Monday, August 15 at 10:00 am at the Chapel in Independence.

Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay – a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin’s passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.