A look at our relationship with Mary, Queen of the Assumption · Chancery Hours

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY into heaven falls on Friday this year and remains a pre-eminent Marian feast day that should be honored and remembered.

In the Diocese of Trenton, Mary Queen of the Assumption is our diocesan patroness and the name of our Cathedral.  Permit me, please, to share some reflections about this solemn feast with you.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ and, as such, possesses the title and identity of “Mother of God.” Throughout the history of the Church, Mary has enjoyed a singular place of honor and pre-eminence among the Communion of Saints. Chosen by God to be the mother of his only begotten Son, Mary was “immaculately conceived,” that is conceived in the womb of her own mother without the stain of original sin and “full of grace,” as the Angel Gabriel announced when she, in turn, conceived the Lord Jesus (Luke 1:28). 
 
 Similarly, because of her unique and privileged relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ, she was assumed body and soul into heaven when her life on earth was ended. These two intimately related convictions of faith definitively proclaimed and held by the Church – the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption – understandably merit special recognition and observance by the Church, December 8 and August 15 respectively. 

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Photo credit: Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Chiesa Nuova church. Getty image.

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THE CHANCERY OFFICES IN LAWRENCEVILLE WILL BE CLOSED Friday, August 15, for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

Photo credit: The Assumption of Virgin Mary by Guido Reni (1638-9)