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Other Commemorations: St. Tarcisius, martyr (RM); St.
Hyacinth of Poland (RM) ; Other Titles: Dormition of Our Lady
(Eastern Rite)
Kakashi hatake x sakura haruno (Readings on USCCB website)
Almighty ever-living God, who assumed the Immaculate Virgin
Mary, the Mother of your Son, body and soul into heavenly glory,
grant we pray, that, always attentive to the things that are above,
we may merit to be sharers of her glory. Through our Lord Jesus
Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the
Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
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On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the
Assumption. Thus he solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the
Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life, was taken
up, body and soul, into the glory of heaven, definitively forms
part of the deposit of faith, received from the Apostles. To avoid
all that is uncertain the Pope did not state either the manner or
the circumstances of time and place in which the Assumption took
place — only the fact of the Assumption of Mary, body and soul,
into the glory of heaven, is the matter of the definition.
Please see this special section on
Adultdvd starcrossed.Historically
today is the feast of St. Tarcisius, a young martyr of the
Eucharist.
The Assumption
Now toward the end of the summer season, at a time when fruits are
ripe in the gardens and fields, the Church celebrates the most
glorious "harvest festival" in the Communion of Saints. Mary, the
supremely blessed one among women, Mary, the most precious fruit
which has ripened in the fields of God's kingdom, is today taken
into the granary of heaven.
—Pius Parsch,
The Church's Year of GraceThe Assumption is
the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first
came to be celebrated. Its origin is lost in those days when
Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman
Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had been a pagan city
for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76-138) had leveled
it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as
Aelia Capitolina
in honor of Jupiter. For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was
obliterated from the city, and the sites made holy by His life,
death and Resurrection became pagan temples. After the building of
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 336, the sacred sites began to
be restored and memories of the life of Our Lord began to be
celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of the memories about
his mother centered around the "Tomb of Mary," close to Mount Zion,
where the early Christian community had lived. On the hill itself
was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's "falling asleep,"
where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried. At
this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it was
to become our feast of the Assumption. For a time, the "Memory of
Mary" was marked only in Palestine, but then it was extended by the
emperor to all the churches of the East. In the seventh century, it
began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling
Asleep" (
"Dormitio") of the Mother of God. Soon the name
was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to
the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been
taken up, body and soul, into heaven. That belief was ancient,
dating back to the apostles themselves. What was clear from the
beginning was that there were no relics of Mary to be venerated,
and that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem near the site
of her death. That location also soon became a place of pilgrimage.
(Today, the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on
the spot.) At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when bishops from
throughout the Mediterranean world gathered in Constantinople,
Emperor Marcian asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to bring the
relics of Mary to Constantinople to be enshrined in the capitol.
The patriarch explained to the emperor that there were no relics of
Mary in Jerusalem, that "Mary had died in the presence of the
apostles; but her tomb, when opened later . . . was found empty and
so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven."
In the eighth century, St. John Damascene was known for giving
sermons at the holy places in Jerusalem. At the Tomb of Mary, he
expressed the belief of the Church on the meaning of the feast:
"Although the body was duly buried, it did not remain in the state
of death, neither was it dissolved by decay. . . . You were
transferred to your heavenly home, O Lady, Queen and Mother of God
in truth." All the feast days of Mary mark the great mysteries of
her life and her part in the work of redemption. The central
mystery of her life and person is her divine motherhood, celebrated
both at Christmas and a week later (Jan. 1) on the feast of the
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. The Immaculate Conception (Dec.
8) marks the preparation for that motherhood, so that she had the
fullness of grace from the first moment of her existence,
completely untouched by sin. Her whole being throbbed with divine
life from the very beginning, readying her for the exalted role of
mother of the Savior. The Assumption completes God's work in her
since it was not fitting that the flesh that had given life to God
himself should ever undergo corruption. The Assumption is God's
crowning of His work as Mary ends her earthly life and enters
eternity. The feast turns our eyes in that direction, where we will
follow when our earthly life is over. The feast days of the Church
are not just the commemoration of historical events; they do not
look only to the past. They look to the present and to the future
and give us an insight into our own relationship with God. The
Assumption looks to eternity and gives us hope that we, too, will
follow Our Lady when our life is ended. In 1950, in the Apostolic
Constitution
Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII
proclaimed the Assumption of Mary a dogma of the Catholic Church in
these words: "The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary,
having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body
and soul into heaven." With that, an ancient belief became Catholic
doctrine and the Assumption was declared a truth revealed by God.
—Excerpted from Fr. Clifford Stevens in
Catholic
HeritageThings to Do:
St. Tarcisius
Tarcisius was a twelve-year-old acolyte during one of the fierce
Roman persecutions of the third century, probably during that of
Valerian. Each day, from a secret meeting place in the catacombs
where Christians gathered for Mass, a deacon would be sent to the
prisons to carry the Eucharist to those Christians condemned to
die. At one point, there was no deacon to send and so St.
Tarcisius, an acolyte, was sent carrying the "Holy Mysteries" to
those in prison.
On the way, he was stopped by boys his own age who were not
Christians but knew him as a playmate and lover of games. He was
asked to join their games, but this time he refused and the crowd
of boys noticed that he was carrying something. Somehow, he was
also recognized as a Christian, and the small gang of boys, anxious
to view the Christian "Mysteries," became a mob and turned upon
Tarcisius with fury. He went down under the blows, and it is
believed that a fellow Christian drove off the mob and rescued the
young acolyte.The mangled body of Tarcisius was carried back to the
catacombs, but the boy died on the way from his injuries. He was
buried in the cemetery of St. Callistus, and his relics are claimed
by the church of San Silvestro in Capite.In the fourth century,
Pope St. Damasus wrote a poem about this "boy-martyr of the
Eucharist" and says that, like another St. Stephen, he suffered a
violent death at the hands of a mob rather than give up the Sacred
Body to "raging dogs." His story became well known when Cardinal
Wiseman made it a part of his novel Fabiola, in which the story of
the young acolyte is dramatized and a very moving account given of
his martyrdom and death.Tarcisius, one of the patron saints of
altar boys, has always been an example of youthful courage and
devotion, and his story was one that was told again and again to
urge others to a like heroism in suffering for their faith. In the
Passion of Pope Stephen, written in the sixth century, Tarcisius is
said to be an acolyte of the pope himself and, if so, this explains
the great veneration in which he was held and the reason why he was
chosen for so difficult a mission.—Excerpted from
The One Year
Book of Saints by Rev. Clifford
Stevens
Patron: acolytes; altar servers; First
Communicants
Things to Do:
St. Hyacinth of Poland
While a canon at the cathedral of Cracow, Hyacinth journeyed to
Rome, was impressed by the preaching and miracles of St. Dominic,
and from the hand of Dominic himself received the habit of the
newly-founded Order. Upon returning to his native land (1219), he
established monasteries of his Order beyond the Alps at Friesach,
Prague, Olmiitz, and Cracow.
From the Breviary we have this miracle. With three companions
Hyacinth had arrived at the banks of the river Weichsel during
their journey to Vischegrad, where they were expected to preach.
But the waters had risen so high and had become so violent that no
ferryman dared to cross. The saint took his mantle, spread it out
before him, and with his companions rode across the raging waters.
After saying his Office for the day, he died in 1257 with these
words on his lips: "Into Your hands, Lord, I rest my spirit!"
—Excerpted from
The Church's Year of Grace, Pius
Parsch
Patron: Poland
Symbols: Pyx;
staff; cloak; scorpion
Things to Do:
- The Church's night prayer, Compline, especially the closing
invocations, serves as a fitting preparation for death. The two
death scenes strike home with telling impact. 1) Christ, hanging on
the Cross, is uttering His last word: "Father, into Your hands I
commend My spirit." Meditatively we repeat the words and entrust
our souls to the care of Christ in sleep, and if need be, in death.
For Hyacinth it actually was his dying invocation. 2) The second
scene, the aged Simeon is singing: "Now You may dismiss Your
servant in peace." How appropriate as one's last day
approaches!
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